tmbrown97
Senior Member
My wife works nights - only about 10 days/month though, and they're pretty random. It just so happened that she's working this weekend, and for some reason, today lots of people were bothering us - phones ringing, two different people came to the door (I have a big No Soliciting sign that gets rid of most; both of these were service people I have business with checking in). When the wife gets woken up, it's hard for her to fall asleep again, and that makes for a very unpleasant wife.
So - The simple solution I think - is to program a "Quiet Mode" into the M1. I actually kinda have one already, but want to expand it to do the following:
So - I have an idea how to do a lot of that; I'll come back as needed... here's the big one though - I'd like this automated. She updates a family calendar with her work days on Google Calendar - I'd like to figure out how to monitor this so I can use it. If she worked the night, be in quiet mode for the next 5 hours. If she works tonight, go into Quiet mode 5 hours before her shift. Effectively, if she's in between 2 shifts, that should silence the whole day.
So - any ideas how to monitor a google calendar completely automatically for a specific event, and get it into something usable? I'm also using J9AE as my automation platform (in its infancy, admittedly). MustangCoupe offered the suggestion of monitoring for the email alerts - but I'm curious about any other ideas?
Thx all! If I swing this one, the wife will really love HA for a while.
The only thing left would be a flag for when the baby is asleep; Not sure how yet - we always keep the door closed and the lights off whether she's in there or not; but I'll tackle that one next.
So - The simple solution I think - is to program a "Quiet Mode" into the M1. I actually kinda have one already, but want to expand it to do the following:
- Turn off non-alarm voices
- disable keypad beeps
- change the sound of the doorbell to a shorter/lower volume one
- disconnect the elk-124's link to the speaker in the MBR and the hallway
- potentially kill the ringers on the phone (not sure; would need to be tied to something I can override remotely if I need to reach wife in an emergency; and if I defeat the ringer on the phone, the answering machine won't pick up either).
So - I have an idea how to do a lot of that; I'll come back as needed... here's the big one though - I'd like this automated. She updates a family calendar with her work days on Google Calendar - I'd like to figure out how to monitor this so I can use it. If she worked the night, be in quiet mode for the next 5 hours. If she works tonight, go into Quiet mode 5 hours before her shift. Effectively, if she's in between 2 shifts, that should silence the whole day.
So - any ideas how to monitor a google calendar completely automatically for a specific event, and get it into something usable? I'm also using J9AE as my automation platform (in its infancy, admittedly). MustangCoupe offered the suggestion of monitoring for the email alerts - but I'm curious about any other ideas?
Thx all! If I swing this one, the wife will really love HA for a while.
The only thing left would be a flag for when the baby is asleep; Not sure how yet - we always keep the door closed and the lights off whether she's in there or not; but I'll tackle that one next.