Building a Smart Home – Part 11 House Sitter Mode

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When designing a smart home I’ve reiterated many times that the goal was to make it work regardless of who was there and that existing expectations of how things like switches work are maintained. But naturally as you start to evolve the smart home more you will end up doing customisations around your household routines. In our house we have a few, one example is the night time routine for the kids bedrooms - at a scheduled time their light will come on, then when they flip the switch to turn it off it will also turn on their night light (there’s a few nuances to it though).

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