I built out this GarHAge setup which uses magnetic reed switches for state detection. I’ve considered that a reed switch getting bumped might get it stuck in a loop of endlessly opening and closing though and tried to care for that possibility in my automations.
Really I just need to get an IP camera for piece of mind when I’m traveling. Even if the state detection is broken I can ensure that it’s closed and disable the automation until I can repair it.
I’ve been using Home Assistant for a while but I don’t have a ton of IoT devices so I don’t have a ton of automations set up.
My most useful though is an alert that triggers when my garage door has been open for ten minutes, and then again every ten minutes after until it has been open for an hour when it will automatically close.
Accidentally left the garage door open all night at least twice before this and thankfully nothing happened but the automation has prevented this at least twice as well.
Also gives me peace of mind in case I accidentally open it when I’m away.
It looks like some sort of issue with pict-rs, the image backend for Lemmy. I haven’t paid enough attention to see which instances are having problems.
Does my user image show up? I’m hosting a tiny Lemmy instance just for myself.