[78zeros]

Hallway lights come on automatically at sunset.

Heating comes on at 4.30am in cooler months, turns off when we leave to go to work (along with the bedroom, hallways and kitchen lights which come on at 6am)

Heating comes back on at 2pm if outside air temperature is below a certain threshold.

Bathroom floor heating and towel rail switch on and off at various times during the morning, afternoon and evening depending on the day.

[stinos]

Hallway lights come on automatically at sunset.

Does this mean you constantly have light there even when you're not around? Any particular reason for that (maybe the switches for it are placed awkwardly or so?)

[78zeros]

My cat is often underfoot or very close by, without the automation I’d be turning the lights on and off manually many times a night. They only come on at 1% brightness.

[stinos]

Ha, cats. Strange I didn't think of that seeing the little buggers sneaking up on me all day long here :)

[u02sgb]

Security. I do this too.

[stinos]

Assuming you mean security nor for yourself (as in, to see where you're walking) but for burglars, thinking about this for a bit I'm not sure if this always works as intended. Would be interesting to see stats. But it's definitely not as simple as 'light on = scare away intruders'. Suppose your hallway light goes on every single day, even if you add some randomess to the timing, a burglar which scouts the neighbourhood a couple of days will quickly figure out the light being on doesn't mean anything with respect to you being at home or not. Moreover it would be convenient for him/her once inside the house since there's more visibility. Unless of course that also means the neighbours can then clearly see someone being in the house. Then again, if your neighbours don't know you're not at home that matters less.

edit seems it's indeed a point of discussion https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8956/is-it-safe...

[lostlogin]

Does light increase security? I don’t pretend to know better and I like it at home so that I don’t suffer the near fatal stepped-on-Lego.