https://www.foogar.com/tags/automation/ Recent content in Automation on Foogar Hugo en-us Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.foogar.com/posts/2026-09-08-taught-my-porch-lights-to-turn-themselves-off-twice/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.foogar.com/posts/2026-09-08-taught-my-porch-lights-to-turn-themselves-off-twice/ <p>My front porch lights run on a timer. An automation turns them off every night - and for the longest time, that mostly worked. Then one night I noticed them on when they shouldn&rsquo;t have been. At 1 AM I was walking past the window and the porch was still glowing, so I turned the lights off myself and promised to look into it the next day.</p> <p>Looking back at the logs, the story was clearer than I expected: at the usual cutoff the lights turned off, exactly as programmed. Then, a few seconds later, they all turned back on. And they stayed that way until I turned them off.</p>