See!

I can use my phone and even my watch (not on my wrist but still can), while they are plugged in.

But you’re right, the rest of the design is also bad.

Been using Pop!_OS for a few months now. It’s pretty great (despite its silly name). Haven’t had any issues gaming.

https://pop.system76.com/

Under the Companion app settings, select your server, then persistent connection

https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notification-local/

It’s weird… I haven’t seen a single spam post here. Only posts about the spam posts. I don’t think I have any filtering on my end. Not that I’m complaining, but why don’t I see them?

That’s the one I have.

It takes a bit to set up, but I’ve been running it to detect people and save clips/images for a couple years. Works pretty well. I’d recommend getting a coral tpu to offload the person detection though.

https://frigate.video/

So, you don’t need an automation per entity. You can add additional entities to the trigger seen here (you can add groups too, kitchenlights is a group of 4 lights):

As circled above, you can also set a “for” time, in this case when the light is on for 15 min.

The time condition has the option for a day off the week. Just leave the time portion blank.

To keep this all in one automation, skip the condition section and go to the action section.

Use the choose block and set the conditions under an option

The action will be a template

service: light.turn_off target: entity_id: “{{ trigger.entity_id }}” data: {}

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What I found… 1 Bitcoin transaction takes ~700 kWh of power, where as 100,000 Visa transactions use ~150 kWh.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-consumption-transaction-comparison-visa/