Oh and being a Back To the future fan, I welcome myself home! 
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How about a fire detector? Well, not really but kinda.
I have many contact switches around the house that also give the temperature. Kinda useless for monitoring a door opening/closing so I wondered what I could do with that info. Looking at temperature trends, they never go over around 85 degrees depending on where they are. So, if one increases to like 100 degrees, something is generating an awful lot of heat to raise the air over 20 degrees above the air conditioning so, I may just want to check into that. Of course of have Alexa triggered to say "attention the house is on fire" and have lights turn red.
Also, if direct sun hits a sensor at a certain time during the day, it can exceed that hi temp trigger. Ask me how I know. Wife wasn't happy after I calmed her down. Me laughing didn't help.
Note; I obviously have actual smoke alarms so I don't really depend on this for personal safety. This was more of a fun exercise, and it does work.
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My wife and I use Uber Eats a lot. I have (in another platform) a sensor that does an API call to Uber Eats every few minutes. The API returns blank JSON until an order is put in. Once something comes back, it triggers another sensor to do the API call every 30 seconds and parses out delivery information (restaurant name, latest arrival time, estimated arrival time, order status). I have a few automations around the order status that pushes a notification when the order is submitted and with subsequent updates.
My kids get their allowance on Sunday's via CashApp. I have an automation that pushes a notification at 11 am with a clickable link to open CashApp.
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I have a few dorky favorites, but the winner in the category for ridiculously over-automated relates to our dogs.
We have a doggie door on the back of the house. It locks the dogs in or out or both based on whether (a) a gate in the backyard is open; (b) it's too muddy back there; (c) there's precipitation; (c) human presence and mode in the house; (d) whether we're in bed; (e) outdoor lux, and (f) whether the irrigation system is running in the backyard. Our cameras monitor dog presence as well--if they're outside the frontyard (where we're not fenced in) and there is no human with them, then urgent notifications are triggered. On rainy days when the dog door needs to be locked for extended periods, we monitor the last time they have been outside to do their business and remind our teenagers to walk them if it's been too long.
We also use an automated dog feeder and we have a leak sensor in their dog bowl so when it runs dry we get a reminder to refill their water bowl. But only when the cameras "see" dogs are at home.
And I don't even like one of the dogs, so there's that lol.
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I have 2 that i’m proud of.
1 is the seasonal lawn decorations automation. The inflatable ones.
They turn on only in a specific time range for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The beauty of the automation is that they turn on when the outside light is bellow 200 lux, they stay on ‘till 10-sh. Unless… the wind blows past 6mph when they turn off and wait for the wind to calm down or if it rains a bit… they turn off and they wait for the water to evaporate and/or wind to calm down.
The second one is the lawn sprinklers that turn off if the wind blows past 6 mph or if the program is running in the back yard, and I go outside via the kitchen sliding door or from the garage, they pause ‘till i’m back in.
Or the one where if the kid goes outside to play and the UV outs is at high levels, it plays a warning on an outside speaker (different messages for various UV levels).
These are the cool ones. I probably have about 30 good automations that make me happy every day 
L.E.. Another one is a Halloween automation that turns on a projection on a mosquito net when trick or treaters get “in range”. It also blasts smoke from a smoke machine.
I have an “on-demand” button for that too that triggers the kiddie videos but also has a separate function for gore-ish videos, when the crowd is appropriate …
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I'm mostly feeling ashamed at my relative lack of weird and wonderful. Quite impressed...
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That reminds me. I need to get back to my dashboard. I got the basic functionality working between iOS and Hubitat. I was working on some control layouts when I realized the data objects were getting reinitialized when you switched rooms. Not a huge hurdle, just my lack of experience with swift.
I do have various sounds enabled but can definitely add some voice.
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Combine that with Pi-hole’s star trek interface and you’re closer to the Enterprise than most )
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That's essentially what this is except on iOS. I was working on the basic wiring behind the scenes but then put it aside when I started to migrate my Hubitat install. The interface will evolve once I get all the pieces in place.
Edit: I do like the dark color scheme. I modeled my colors and general design ideas off of some existing Okudagrams I had found. I have the colors defined so that I only have to change them in one spot so themes should be easy.
The closest I've come is the AOL, "You've got mail," in the original AOL voice when the mailbox is opened. Slightly amused and tolerated by WAF.
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But are you using the AOL voice?
No.
I'm not sure if it's weird, but I just finished automating my Powerwall battery to charge up from cheap off-peak power on days that my Solar System won't produce much power. I might even make a Hubitat app out of it if I can figure it out.
It uses Solcast Integration for the energy generation forecasts, and Powerwall Manager for controlling the PW.
It's made up of 2 rules:
1/ set the Powerwall charge target for the day (triggered by the SolCast data updating) to a Hub Variable:
2/ Charge the battery to the desired SoC:
My Solar system is only 5.4kW, so in the winter it doesn't generate enough power to charge up the battery to get through the peak period (3pm-9pm Daily), this automation lets me time-shift the house to cheap power.
And I have a Dashboard to keep an eye on it all:
PS, I'm on a ToU tarrif and Off-Peak = 13.5c p/kWh and Peak = 39c p/kWh (AUD)
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Where to start, a virtual dog barking when someone enters the driveway.
Pirs over zinks, tables and workplaces to automatic turn on light on a specific small spot.
Automatic music in allmost every room.
Indoor light follows outside light
Garagedoor opens if someone comes home and no car in garage.
Roofwindows opens and closes according to temperature.
Automatic blinds
Rc motor controling my floorheating via wifi and an esp
Meteor made with programable leds
More than 300 zigbee units
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Targeting what location? (Just want to make sure I'm not in the blast zone...) 
Impressive.
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OK, got one. Sorta-kinda (but not really) weird or wonderful. But it's one automation my wife likes very much, so that is one kind of wonderful.
Simple basic rule to turn on a plug on our kitchen island at 5:30pm every day.
Use-case:
We usually eat around 6:30-ish and want to start rice cooking around 5:30. If we are having rice (frequent occurrence), we like to wash and then soak it before cooking. Frequently I would start the rice soaking but forget to turn the rice cooker on at 5:30 It's an OG rice cooker - one button to turn on, cooks and turns off. No built-in automation.
The plug we connect the rice cooker to on the island is a smart plug. So when I'm making rice I turn the plug off (via button on the plug), fill the rice cooker w/washed rice and water, plug it in, and press the on button. Rice cooker sits quietly, rice soaks, and cooking starts at 5:30 sharp when the plug turns on w/no intervention/functional memory required. 
Tah-Dah!! (Please, be gentle.)
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Sometimes the most mundane automations are the best. I have an automation that tuns off one light and turns on another when our bed is occupied.
It's my wife's favorite.
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The below is sorta not PG.
Scroll for the rest.........................................We were getting frisky one time and at the big moment the lights started flashing on and off. My wife actually thought I somehow automated the moment... but it was only the signal that the laundry was dry.
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Her: "I saw lights flashing and it seemed like the world was a wild and wonderful place!"
LOL...for a moment there you were a superstar.
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