How we automated our relationship

Tiger Oakes (@notwoods@hachyderm.io) x Daphne
Liu (@thebetterdaphne@twitter.com)

Want to automate your home? Come learn how to sharpen your skills in Node, APIs,
and the Internet of Things while making laundry, cooking, & calendar projects
that improve your life and relationship. Resources from our talk at
CascadiaJS 2022 and
HalfStack 2023.

• Slides

Recipes 🍎

We got tired of putting together a grocery list every week since we have a
backlog of go-to recipes. Instead of spending the weekend planning what we’re
eating during the week, we wrote a script to automatically pull from our recipe
list in Notion, assign meals onto days in our calendar, then add the ingredients
onto our grocery list.

• Our delicious recipe board on Notion (recipes.tigerxdaphne.com)
  • Notion database key is 849553e394454ca9951006edd3bdcfd9
• Our source code

Meetings 📅

We share a home office. It’s the worst when we accidentally talk over each other
in conflicting meetings. We’ll show you how to connect your meeting calendars to
lights in your office, so you can quickly tell if someone’s in a call.

• Home Assistant
• Node-RED
• Node-RED addon for Home Assistant
• Our Node-RED flows
  • How to import flows in Node-RED

Laundry 👗

We’re guilty of running and forgetting our laundry machine. Setting a timer is
boring; we’re software engineers and we can do better. So, we attached a
vibration sensor to track when the machine is running! We’ll demonstrate how to
plug in that sensor to a speaker, to notify you when the laundry’s done.

• Aqara Vibration Sensor
• Zigbee USB Hub
• Our Node-RED flows
  • How to import flows in Node-RED