Problem with #automation (Home or otherwise) is that it works 90 % of the time. None of it is 100% dependable and due to the ever changing nature of everything, it can't ever be. So you just double check everything all the time, creating extra cognitive burden. And I say that as someone who uses a lot of it and really like most of it.
@stooovie Whenever an automation hits that 10%, I set up another automation to make sure that 10% is mitigated or detected. Even though the new automation may also not work 10% of the time, it lowers the chance of not working to 1%. 😂
@stooovie The weird thing about my home automation is that the hackiest two devices (Tasmota firmware) and the raspberry pi automating them with node-red have 99.9% uptime, the commercial devices have been less reliable.
@zachnfine I had a similar experience with CD-R and DVD-R media back in the day. Brand names such as Verbatim, 3M, Imation or Kodak were gone in a few years, totally noname blanks lasted years longer.
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