I’ve been plugging away and doing better and better automation for my house. Everything is working great so far!
My girlfriend asked about a specific automation she needs, one-time events. Two examples:
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One-time Heating. We have guests coming over today at 5:00pm. We keep our house at 63 degrees normally (heating is expensive), but would like to up it to 70 before the guests arrive (so they don’t realize we are total cheapskates). So a schedule of Honeywell to 70 @ 4:45pm should fix that, but we don’t want it to fire every day.
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Variable Alarmclock. We have grown used to using our hue lights to wake us up using lighting rather than jarring noise. Girlfriend wants to wake up at 6:30am on a specific saturday to go meet her friends, but normally would rather sleep in until 9 (you’ve probably guessed we don’t have kids). The one-off event should fire a gradual light increase at 6:00 - 6:30, but only on that one day (not every day, or even every saturday).
Is there an easy way to accomplish this? I did some searching, but I don’t know if I know the lingo well enough to articulate it to google. Any help is appreciated, even if its just a simple hyperlink.