{"id":42335,"date":"2025-09-25T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42335"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:33:19","slug":"a-toothbrush-has-become-one-of-the-most-important-pieces-of-tech-in-my-smart-home-thanks-to-home-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42335","title":{"rendered":"A toothbrush has become one of the most important pieces of tech in my smart home, thanks to Home Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">It&#8217;s almost annoying, honestly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/toothbrush-turned-into-powerful-tech-home-assistant\/\">A toothbrush has become one of the most important pieces of tech in my smart home, thanks to Home Assistant<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: uses the toothbrsing as a signal that day has started; like me, if i&#8217;m really up, i brush my teeth, otherwise i&#8217;m just up for a whiz or heading to couch.  kinda brilliant, like the &#8220;# of pizzas ordered to whitehouse&#8221; as an idicator of something big about to happen.  perhaps not true,m but good story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>So, if I can signal that my day is starting based on an event (in this case, brushing my teeth), I can track state changes collected from my toothbrush to automate all kinds of morning processes. That can include getting a notification of when my first call is that day, what tasks I need to complete, turning on my coffee machine (using a FingerBot), and sending a wake-on-LAN packet to my computer so that when I&#8217;m finished brushing my teeth, my computer is already on and ready.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost annoying, honestly. Source: A toothbrush has become one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[196,854],"class_list":["post-42335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-home-automation","tag-teeth","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42338,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335\/revisions\/42338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}