I would like to turn on mood lighting automatically when I’m taking a shower, what’s the best way to detect that?

  • I’ve considered humidity sensors, but that will take a while to kick in and not immediately when the shower starts.
  • I’ve also considered a water leak sensor but those are not meant to be trigger every day for a long time like 10-15 minutes. That would kill the battery, right?
  • Smart valves can kind of work, but it feels like overkill because I don’t care about the valve functionality.

I would prefer the solution to be battery powered (don’t want to be messing with too many cables around a shower), but I can’t seem to find one.

  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    4 hours ago

    mmwave sensor, humidity sensor, and/or monitoring your water heater power usage. any of those 2 should work.

    I am actively working on a bunch of ML algorithms for home assistant for exactly this type of thing, detecting ‘activity’ per room.