It started with the star seiling, slowly starting when it gets dark.
I use an illuminence sensor instead sun up/down, much more
precize
We love to sit here when ever temperature is ok
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Having realized many times that we went to bed with doors unlocked and/or the attached garage door open wide open, I knew there was a better way.
So now, when we tell Alexa âgood nightâ to turn lights off, a Hubitat rule is triggered to check that all the doors are closed and locked. If not, a lamp flashes for 10 seconds.
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We have a similar routine called âbed timeâ, it turns off most of the lights in the house, locks the digital deadlocks, closes the garage door (if itâs been open for more than 15 mins) and turns on our bed lamps in our bedroom.
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I use to have a good-night routine that I would trigger with Google Home / Alexa. But now, I trigger night mode when we are both in bed, and night mode checks all doors and windows, closes/locks what it can and notifies if anything remained open.
We use a combination of Aquara FP2 and pressure sensor to confirm we are both in bed. It is not perfect, as there can be some false positives (though very rare), but it works very well for us.
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Speaking of garage doors - I use SharpTools to send an SMS when the garage door has been open for 1, 2, and 3 hours.
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I send myself and my wife a Hubitat notification after 30 mins and announce it on several speakers for my wifeâs benefit. 
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My wife's favorite automation is a RGB lightbulb in an accent light, that turns red when garage doors open, and blue when front door is left unlocked for more than 15 minutes.
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If your front door is a smart lock, why don't you just have the automation lock the door?
If your front door is a dumb lock, what are you using to find out if it is locked?
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So I don't lock myself out accidentally, the lock still needs a key to open from the outside.
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That's also why I don't automatically lock the doors. We too need a key for the lock but I do have a zigbee keypad that will unlock the door. My fear is that the system will crash and I can't get back in.
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Have you by chance looked at the underside of the lock (on the outside of the door)? I obviously don't know which lock you have, but many of them (including the Yale that we own) have battery contacts for a 9V that, if for some reason the lock is, say, out of battery and your can't unlock from the outside you can use a 9V as a backup measure.
Sounds weird perhaps, but my wife keeps a 9V in her purse. I think we've used it once in 5-6 years, but it's a nice insurance policy.
P.S. we don't use keys -- like things simple.
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@Sebastien, one idea for you. Like you and perhaps a lot of folks around these parts, we have a similar good-night routine. Works great. Except we were finding somebody was getting up for a glass of water or a midnight trip to the kitchen (damn teenagers) and leaving lights on. At first, it was like, "why isn't a goodnight routine working?" Then we figured out lights were getting turned on after good night happened.
So we added a rule that we call "Night Security Guard" -- every hour while mode=asleep, the virtual security does a pass through the whole house. Any lights, fans, TVs left on in the common areas of the house get turned off. Any devices in bedrooms/bathrooms are left on unless there has been no motion for awhile, in which case they are turned off.
This automation has worked perfectly for several years now. WAF is high.
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Thanks for the tip. Our lock does not have that option. I usually carry a key (unless I am just going into the yard) I just don't need to use it. I do monitor presence and if we leave, and forget to lock the door it will lock.
AFAIK, Smart locks store the lock codes on the lock. Unless the lock batteries are dead, you can always open the lock using the lock code, even if your hub is turned off and unplugged...
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Our lock does not have a keypad. I use a zigbee keypad to process any codes. It all has worked well since being set-up in 2020 but there are those rare occasions where things can and do go sideways.
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Yes, that would be different. 
Great idea to catch anything that was left on! Over here, every one of those devices has a delayed off when no motion in the room, but there have been cases where some do not behave correctly, so I setup a similar rule that runs if any device that shouldnât is showing as on.
There are so many ways to get this done, one of the things I love about Hubitat!
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So that must be your teenagers I heard shouting "WTF!?" when the lights went out just as they were about to eat their ice cream. 
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Or itâs a great way to frame the teenagers when Iâm the one sneaking the midnight ice cream. Home automation has so many positive uses.
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