Two identical buttons, and "long" means different things
One button at the door, one in the bedroom. Both identical, both with three gestures — and the most important gesture does something entirely different on each.
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This saves me …
Which steps, trips and running costs actually disappear.
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Four buttons for six heating zones — the stove counts too
In winter it is always the same four states. Clicking each one by hand across six zones is the kind of work where you forget half — usually the toilet.
The sticker does not know who is there — the calendar does
The request was an e-ink display with a rotating QR code. What was built is a sticker with no power. Why that answers the same question better.
The washing machine reports in — if you let it
Programme, temperature and spin speed on my phone, locally and without a vendor account. And why the same brand could not be connected at all in Merano.
The calendar knows in advance, the phone knows now
No tracker can predict an arrival, no calendar can safeguard a departure. Why both are needed — and where the eight and ten hours come from.
Signal does not notify you about your own messages
Home Assistant was paired as a secondary device and sent under my own number. The images arrived, the notification never did. Only a foreign sender triggers it.
Six valves move house — and the radio network improved
The radiator heads spoke Bluetooth through two gateways. The same hardware can do Zigbee — and after removing the gateways the weakest link got better.