For me, it also is what hub is it on? Lutron, Home, HA, or of course HE.
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Fantastic post, creative and fun.
For AI/Allan to be useful for a smart home, it must have access to massive amounts of data. Most of use probably have contact switches on our doors, but might not have them on windows. There would beed to be motion sensors or occupancy sensors in every room of the housed. You might need cameras with AI human detection to determine if there multiple people in a room. It would need access to your calendar with details about when you plan to leave and return.
I suspect that someone with the resources of Bill Gates might have incorporated some of these features into his mansion, but it will be awhile before they are accessable to the common man.
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All she would have to do here is to turn off Hubitat. Every thing has a manual mode which still works the old fashion way.
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This point hasn't came up for a while, but there used to be two distinct POV's - does everything just happen automatically or is there the need to have a dashboard too i.e. remote control.
I've always argued it's impossible to have a fully automated home. No amount of logic can cover everything, because life doesn't work to a rigid pattern. I don't always want to dim the lights when I turn on a tv, because I might be mid-snack. But sure, I'll probably want to kick back a bit more 15 mins into the film. At which point then yeah, I'd love to hit a button (or speak) to have the mainlights dim to 30%, knock the salt lamps and the shelf lights on, and adjust the colour to blue.
Automation? Fair enough, but only for the quantifiable.
eg. if the house is occupied, and it's 6pm, and the temperature is 16 degrees then heat the room until its's 20 degrees.
There's way, way too much grey for full automation, AI or not.
I would like to see automations that do for lighting and security what modern thermostats do for HVAC. So they would be easy enough for the average person to use.
