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Dashboard - What functions/information turned out to be helpful? (feddit.org)
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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?

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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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.