What part of your home feels too hard to have HE infiltrate.... ? Is there part of your lighting... climate control... presence.... or daily task that you feel unattainable...
Let us in to crack that nut....
Can't claim too much in this space myself... only that I haven't spent the time to sort out my presence and lighting like I want.... but nothing that is unachievable....
Crank type windows that lock. Oh, how I would love to be able to automate these… at a reasonable price of course…
Until then, I have a TTS to tell me or others in earshot to open or close the windows as required.
We have nice cool evenings generally where I live, and I much prefer to cool down the house with open windows in the summer than otherwise. Also, when it gets warm during the day, it can help a lot to keep the cooler air in when the windows are closed.
I would really like not to have a “people” part to that automation… 
Determine when someone is dropping the kids off at the pool in relatively short order.
I have motion sensors in all the bathrooms, but that would require having to time gate movement (motion sensor marked active twice within a short window) and result in delays since the person would have to be still long enough for the sensor to go inactive and then trigger it again. I thought about a pressure sensor under the seat, but there's concerns about cleanliness and the potential for an eye sore. I also have plastic seats on all toilets, so no chance to recess anything (remember reading about someone recessing a sensor into the seat but they had wooden ones).
A few folks have mentioned how the goal of home automation should be to have things just happen, and that's really stuck with me. If any solution involves more work for the user than just pushing a switch, then it's not a solution.
Apparently not much improvement over the course of a decade
Running the perfect bath, unattended. Stairway lighting.
"Motorize your crank window" video
He's got too many caveats and "mostly works". Stripping the coupling, only closing to 99%. And having that big device sticking out on the window. Locally, the WAF would be very, very low.
He recommends a beefier motor and coupling than the ones he was using. Would def not use a 3d printed plastic coupling for this. I would also maybe add more screw holes in the base for the side nearest to the window.
The general concept seems good though.
I tried a shock sensor on various spots on the tank. Unless I purposefully sat down hard, it didn't pick anything up.
With certain skills and more than a few bucks, the bath is pretty simple.
Just add solenoid valves inline on the hot and cold water lines, set and leave the hand valves open at correct temp and be sure to close the drain at some point along the way. Then, setup a smart button (Lutron Pico, maybe) and a smart relay (Sonoff, etc) to open the valves for a predetermined length of time.
Perfect bath. Done.
Kohler has a system that can do that.
https://www.smarthome.kohler.com/
It atleast has some Alexa integration available. I have not found any information about how to integrate other systems with it, so there would be a lot of investigative work at the ones and zeros level to figure that out, but it is possible.
EDIT: It also costs a 
-ton of money to implement their system.
Nice, though the WAF on it may not be very high… I’m concerned that if the motor provides too much torque, it will strip the gears inside the window mechanism (have had to replace one because of this…). I have seen some motors that will detect if they are applying too much force (some type of feedback?) and the board could detect this and stop turning the crank.
The other part would be the locking mechanism. An actuator would likely do the trick for that.
I wonder instead of a reed switch you could have some sort of physical contact.. where when the window closes it closes a circuit which signals the motor to shut off.
That’s a very good idea - would likely be more accurate!
The big thing for me at the moment is my apartment's antiquated buzzer system. It's basically a wall mounted slimline phone, that you have to take off the hook and press a button.
I imagine if the phone were off the hook, you would not hear someone "calling" it to be let into the building, as well as everything going on in the apartment would be broadcast to the street, or I would just leave it off the hook and use a SwitchBot
I would love to be able to buzz someone in from anywhere in the apartment, especially if it's a delivery while I'm in a WFH meeting
Maybe go old school and use something like this?
https://www.amazon.com/Robotics-56K-USB-Soft-Modem/dp/B009019KR4/
This is not compatible with Linux.. you'd need an ACM modem or go with a VOIP device... (and then go down the "asterisk" rabbit hole!)
I'm sorry, buddy, but anyone who thinks that is a solution has never, ever, met my wife (or any other other-half?). Are you kidding me!!?? 
"Yes please, wonderful husband, install a huge ugly motor on all of our casement windows so I can feel like I'm living in a steampunk house." 
Both of the motorized casement options make me laugh/cry out loud...
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