Hi everyone, HA user for about 3 years now, and the progress is incredible!
There is a LOT of talk about smart home vs intelligent home and so wondered if there was a way to start out simple with Goals?
At night when I start my bedtime routine what would be cool is if doors knew they were doors, lights knew they were lights and locks (so on and so forth).
I use Node-Red to lock all the locks and turn off the lights etc.
But if a lock wont lock, should it try again, if so how many times? Does it alert me?
Different for if a door is open, as HA can’t close the door (without a motorised arm of course )
So what I wondering is there a way to take a big leap in to the future by establishing ‘Goals’?
I have a loop in my node-red that allows 3 lock retries before alerting me (it could be due to a flooded z-wave network, it could be a z-wave hiccup?) either way HA will tell me “Hey i’m trying to lock the front door again”
As we look to the modern intelligent home the system would know the goal, and generate appropriate alerts.
Bedtime:
The goal = to lock the house, arm the alarm and turn on or off various things.
The journey would be how the house gets there based on the entities and what the system knows about them.
The response = “All the doors are locked, alarm is armed, but the office window is open”
Goodnight:
The Goal = everything except X and Y off
The response = “I’ve turned everything you asked, but the nursery humidifier is still on, shall I leave it on” maybe even (see below) adding “its warmer this evening would you like to run the AC for longer?”
The next layer on top of this would be true AI learning about the states (ie the last 7 days the humidifier is still on at night - could that be a habit, or could it be correlated to the humidity in the room? initially a user would need to point out that correlation, but in the future it could be inferred as the knowledge graph of the entities and what impacts them improves)