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125: AppleScript Events and more with James Thomson

Automators

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How to Use Amazon Echo to Track Automations

I want somebody to release a nice integrated IR and present sensor in a home kit specific or at least supporting whatever protocols matter probably. I'll tell you though, my human presence sensor is slow. So that's actually a pretty good idea to have an IR in there and just have that as a trigger and then use a human presence to turn it off. Like if there's nobody in the room, turned it off. That would probably solve the problem for me. But then you're getting into a situation where you've got multiple automations that you need to track... You start bumping against the fringy edges of home kit and start looking at something like home assistant where you have more

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