So I’ve seen all kinds of dashboards depicting all sorts of informations and functions to control ones home and I was wondering, what things you have depicted on yours which turned out to be really useful esp. for other family members. I would like to keep mine as small and simple as possible. So far I have planned to show the following:
Helpful esp. before leaving the house:
- turn off all lights
- activate alarm within n minutes
- current and upcoming rain and outside temperature conditions
- List of open windows and doors
Helpful during the day
- Current and set temperature inside
- Autonomy of car
- Remaining time of washing machine
- State of dishwasher (ready, running, done)
- State of mailbox (empty, full)
What’s on yours you and others in your household interact often with? Which have you removed?
That’s actually not a bad idea with the charging. I don’t currently have a smart socket like that but it’s definitely something I could pick up and test. They should be returning it to charge after use anyways, so we can set that as a rule so that it’s always properly charged.
I wonder if I could tell the difference in power use between plugged in to charge, plugged in and playing, and plugged in charging AND playing. Maybe just the first two. Needs testing.
I did a quick search to see if there are any smart USB chargers that also report the Device Information rather than just on/off status, and couldn’t find anything. That would be useful since it is part of the USB standard to be able to collect that information when a device is plugged in.