Sounds like a use case for touchscreen wall controllers like Shelly ones. Controlling things in your house by unlocking your phone, opening the app, finding the right dashboard, pressing buttons is a poor user experience compared with operating a switch on the wall.

i’ll be happy with “just do better than i did”

today

I’ve got two of the Screek 2A sensors and think they’re good. Mmwave technology isn’t a magic bullet that automatically works every time, like all radio tech there are some limitations.

I use one to turn on a light in a hallway and the other to detect when someone approaches the front door and issue an alert via ntfy.sh. Once in a while it misses some motion, so I’d probably not recommend it if you were building a human life kind of scenario, but they’re fine for me.

More importantly, they’re well supported by HA/ESPHome, open source, inexpensive and compact.

Calling it now - it will be written in such a way that Musk’s motley crew will be required to maintain it or update proprietary closed source components at extreme cost forever - practically guaranteeing he will always have full access to the data and be able to charge what he likes for any changes whoever takes power after Trump is gone.

If they had zero support there would be no need for places to sell milkshakes.

they won five out of 650 seats, not even 1% 🙂

she would not be welcome in the UK. We do not tolerate fascism here.

its my second throwaway. I threw away the first one.

as someone from the north of England, “scotch” or “ scotch drop” pancakes are very different from crepes and folks here will fight over that