The main thing I want is to change the colour temperature and brightness of lights throughout the house based on the time of day. I live in Northern Europe, and find lighting has a noticeable effect on my mood in winter. I'll also have presence and motion sensors throughout the house, so won't need to touch a light switch.
So basically first world problems. And for sure you could try to do something similar with Philips Hue bulbs (I have in the apartment I live in now), and 80% of the time that works, but I'd like to solve the other 20% too.
I'll also have a heat pump for hot water, heating and cooling and solar PV, so I will tie those together to try to optimise my power usage to use as much solar as possible. I'd love to be able to do that with appliances too (e.g. load up the washing machine in the morning, and have it turn on when there is excess solar), but it seems that's a few years away yet. Now I can monitor power usage and know when the washing is done. And if nobody goes in the room for an hour (from motion sensor) I can send a push notification to remind someone to get the washing.
So basically first world problems. And for sure you could try to do something similar with Philips Hue bulbs (I have in the apartment I live in now), and 80% of the time that works, but I'd like to solve the other 20% too.
I'll also have a heat pump for hot water, heating and cooling and solar PV, so I will tie those together to try to optimise my power usage to use as much solar as possible. I'd love to be able to do that with appliances too (e.g. load up the washing machine in the morning, and have it turn on when there is excess solar), but it seems that's a few years away yet. Now I can monitor power usage and know when the washing is done. And if nobody goes in the room for an hour (from motion sensor) I can send a push notification to remind someone to get the washing.