Hi! I’m new to home assistant and I’m wondering what would be worth the cost. A lot of the “smart” appliances seem overly expensive and automating them would only save me a handful of minutes each day. I live in canada where power is cheap, so things that save power aren’t particulary useful. A way to open/close the windows and doors sounds useful and would save me the most time, but costs thousands. A way to keep track of what is in the fridge and propose recipes to avoid food waste would be nice but I’m not entirely sure how I would setup such a system.
Does anyone have ideas of worthwhile things I could setup that would be worth the cost?
The first one I always do is replace the light switches I have to turn off for bedtime every night, and a simple button or something near bed to trigger on/off. Or just timers if your schedule is super consistent (usually isn’t in my experience, though you might think it is; buttons give you much more mileage without the annoyance of having to turn lights back on when you stayed up a bit late playing a game etc).
It’s not a major time save but it’s just nice when you’re cozy and ready for bed to just tap a button and roll over versus getting up to turn off all the lights and start the fan etc.