I want to have my Roomba vacuum start vacuuming when I arrive at my office location at work. The reason for this is that a vacuum session takes about an hours, and I might have just stepped out for get mail or go for a walk/run. That makes “away from home” useless. Since I’m normally at the office for hours, it’s the perfect time to vacuum!
Alternatively, if I could have an automation that triggers when I’ve been away from home for an hour. In that case, it’s probably safe to assume that I’ll be gone for a few more hours, and that would also be a good time to vacuum.
A 3rd option would be use my Apple Homekit install, since I have Apple Home and I’ve installed the Homekit integration. I’m trying to keep homekit out of the picture so that I’m not dependendent on it, which is why it’s the last option.
Ideas on the first 2 options? I can do the third, but I’m reluctant to do it.
Note: The vacuum is very loud and I can’t focus or hear anything else in the house while it’s running. So yeah I don’t want to home while it is running.