I think Jeff at SlackerLabs has some good random use in his Halloween automations. He sends random spooky sounds to random chromecast devices around the house. I want to use this to make random effects happen as a motion sensor sees kids come to the door then have a random cool-down period so that the same effects aren't triggered until after the group that triggered it has left. The effects can be turning on specific lights to highlight certain scenes, turning on the zombie-in-a-box, turning off lights and turning the valve on an ankle blaster, making creepy sounds.

@BeardedTinker

25 күн бұрын

That's great idea!!! Would love to see finished code!

Brilliant timing. My morning voice announcement always says "time to wake up" and i was wondering if there was a way to get it to randomly say different things instead and now here's your video 😂

@BeardedTinker

25 күн бұрын

Nice - glad I timed it right ;)

Having watched Home Alone as a child, I use randomness in a template to vary the time my house lights come on in the evenings and turn off at night when I'm away on vacation.

@BeardedTinker

25 күн бұрын

There is nice integration for that called Presence Simulation. It uses your actually device history to simulate your presence.

Just a random chance I found this!! Not really, I'm subscribed. Thanks for the creative solutions.

@BeardedTinker

25 күн бұрын

Thanks for the sub and for watching the video!!!

Do you use Node-RED at all? I am just looking how much easier some things, like random, are there. I have started with HA automation long time ago, then switched to Node-RED. Tried to come back to HA automation but no :D

@BeardedTinker

25 күн бұрын

Deleted it few years back - for me using NR defeats the purpose of HA., but yes, a lot of things can be done differently and/or easier there.

This is my totally random comment.

@BeardedTinker

29 күн бұрын

This is so random...

“Alexa, whose turn is it” is easily our most used Alexa triggered script alias: Random person sequence: - service: alexa_media.update_last_called data: {} - service: notify.alexa_media data: message: >- {% set options = { 3: 'Its jacks turn', 2: 'Its janes turn', 1: 'Its Jill’s Turn'} %} {{ options[(range(1, 4) | random)] }} data: type: tts target: "{{ states('sensor.last_alexa') }}" enabled: true mode: single

@BeardedTinker

25 күн бұрын

Nice one - loving the simplicity and see big potential here :)