With my wife and I sharing and office it’s sometimes hard to know if someone is just in there using the desk vs actually on a call.
It would be great if we had a way or connection a rule to our calendars to trigger a little indicator light over the office door to say when someone was in a meeting vs just in the office so the other person could be mindful about how much noise they’re making.
Anyone know of an off the shelf battery powered z-wave indicator light that we could stick up over the door?
Do you have any light switches outside the office? I ask because you could buy one of the new Inovelli Red series switches that have programmable LEDs on them and make them blink, change color, etc via rules.
My thought would be a smartthings button to trigger a light to change color. Would just need to remember to tap the button again when the call was done.
It would be way cool to find an [ON AIR] sign to hang up hooked to a smart plug that would turn on when you hit that button. Or with your calendar, but connecting that is above my pay grade.
I would love to know of any zigbee/zwave battery powered ACTUATORS vs sensors.
Also if you use O365 the included Microsoft "Flow" or now I Think they call it automation allows you to create rules based on your calendar. I think it would be pretty simple to use that to flip a switch in HE using maker API.
Just want to mention since I don’t know what @jared.zimmerman is using for a calendar, but Apple iCloud calendar is almost impossible to integrate using any tool... they don’t provide any iCal or API
To get the same feature at home I used a yeelight color bulb outside my office. I have some custom software that uses the maker api, but in absence of that the node-red option seems like it will do the same.
Big thing is the hardware, either of those options above have served me well, believe me you WILL want to be able to manually control them too.
Apple's iCalendar, despite the name, does not support iCal. It only publishes a caldav if it was a public calendar. So for my personal calendar, it's not public which means it's not visble to caldav or ical One of those times I really hate apple!
All our wall switches are casetta do not willing to swap just one out in the hall by the office with the (very cool!) inovelli one
the hall light fixture is ornamental and uses non-standard light bulbs for which their are not RGB smart bulbs to replace (also it’s on a casetta dimmer so those wouldn’t work anyway
old house so their aren’t any outlets in the hall where the door to the office is.
I wanted something battery powered not just so I could put one above the office door, but also in the living room too, since you can’t see the office door from that living room
we have a couple hue Go lights but those batteries only last 2-3 hours. I figure a device with mini-leds and a good diffuser could last off battery for a very long time.
I don’t actually want an on air sign, but if you do, there are some really cool vintage looking ones on Etsy. https://etsy.me/2BeCfOL
That’s TBD, I use google calendar and my wife uses Apple calendar, but it’s from a feed from her work so I think I could be easily imported into Google calendar as well.
Since there is no default Google Calendar Hubitat integration (I know about the ifttt work around) maybe this is a good opportunity for a new Code bounty $$$ ...
Do you have the centralite Night Light Repeater? Curious how long the battery lasts if you're not using it as a nightlight, temp sensor, and repeater and using it only as an indicator for a couple hours a day.
One of those times I really hate apple!
