Today I want to talk to you about how we have gone over the issue of notifications. Actually, it’s just the other way around, isn’t it? In Formula 1, for example, it is said that one is stopped because it is left on the curve, that is, it has not stopped in time, it is not that it has stopped too much and it has stopped… I don’t know, the case is that a few years ago we asked device manufacturers to give us notice of apps and not just of calls or messages and I think it has been given to us… for that is precisely what I want to talk about today.
The problem: Too many notifications
I think We have too many notifications.. Not just domestics, huh? We have too many notifications in general but it also seems that the apps want to notify us of everything. For example, I understand that it can be uIf your bank will notify you of strange things in your account… but you can’t tell him «just let me know about strange things.» I know, movements of an X amount of money that doesn’t match your usual patterns, many transfers in a little space of time, things like that… or that will charge you a receipt and have no balance, I don’t know, but in my case, for example, the bank notifies me absolutely all the movements
What’s in my account. And fuck, there are many, every day there are moves in my account, at home you know that we are 6 with their respective expenses, out of school, the school, that if I didn’t loan, that if a Bizum of a birthday… you don’t need to notify everything… but gives the impression that if we take this notification off, we’re gonna miss something important. that we still get into the account and we’re at 0 because a cybercriminal has got access and emptied it.
Well, the bank app may still make some sense, but let me know about the game Dragon Ball Legends when I’ve restored my energy and I can get back on with people online… because you’ll tell me… or that Ibai has released a new video about its spectacular physical change… well, great. In the end we spend the day getting notifications on the phone, on the clock, some we see them at the moment, others we take the mobile for something and we see that we have there chorropostohundred notifications… and we end up erasing them because they’re not really useful to us.
If we focus on notifications of domestic devices or services, it is true that by default many of them are not activated… but you can also mess up everything you want. From the motion cameras or sensors that report any movement or even change of luminosity they have detected as movement, to the aspirated robot. What do I want the vacuum cleaner to tell me when he comes out to vacuum? Man may be useful if the vacuum cleaner fails and we want to know that he’s really gone out to aspire, but he’s been unfailing for hundreds of months, I don’t need that notification at all. The aspiring finish could also be interesting
… but I don’t know, It’s supposed to come out, aspires and turns, right?
Remove notifications that do not provide value
So In recent weeks I have tried to minimize notifications to the maximum. I don’t even have real-time notifications active for Telegram, so if someone writes it to me in the Summary of Notifications at the time I’ve scheduled, one at the end of the morning and the other at the end of the working day in the afternoon, but not in real time. In the case of the vacuum cleaner who told you before, he created a single notification that tells me only if the state is equal to ERROR, that is, if it has been locked in a room or failed for whatever reason. I’m thinking I could also adjust it… to see, usually if you
You hit the door of a room and you close it or something, you stay locked up, but what can I do if I’m in the office? I can adjust that notification to let me know that only if I’m at home and so I can go open the room door, but if I’m in the office, I don’t care.
With motion cameras and sensors you can also do things. Some motion sensors allow you to adjust the sensitivity in case for example you have a pet that walks around the house while you’re gone. Or a vacuum robot as we said before, so we’ll get less notifications… but what I’m trying to avoid is not to find out if something abnormal has happened at home, what I’m trying to avoid is to get a notification if my older son has come home within his usual schedule and that has caused the lights to light. What a need. Or if they touch the portal or the doorbell and my wife is home, I don’t care, another one.
It is that the door of the house is opened if we are not supposed to be at home, in that case it makes sense, but you have to run away from what happens in another episode of the Simpsons where Homer teaches his family his alarm All goes as God Manda, which sounds every 3 seconds unless something does not go as God commands… and it cannot be turned off:
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Well, that, in this attempt to reduce notifications, I have disable the notification The one I told you was sending Home Assistant to the Garmin Sleep Score., that is, the score of the dream that gives me the watch because it’s monitoring my dream and based on that I prepare the workouts of the day and see if I change the series session running to the fucking top that I was playing today for a quieter one or home floor exercises or something.
I also have a notification called Open at night that sends me a notification the next day with the time at which the entrance door was opened at night. This notification is not just a notification, it is an automation that, if the door opens between 1 in the night and 8 in the morning, it lights the entry lamp and sends me a notification with the exact time at which it has opened… and this was useful to me because I have a 17-year-old son who leaves at night and I am interested to know whether he has arrived at his time or not. You know, real needs. The point is, today I can already know this in many ways.
s, I can enter the security event history in the house app to see it as there is an open door sensor on that door, actually there are 2, but well… and there’s also the smart lock, so I have a thousand ways to know if it’s come in… I can even see the system events and know at what time the lamp has turned on, what has detected the motion sensor, etc… and the worst of all is that sometimes it’s my wife and I who came in later than my son, so the next morning I remember that I spent three villages and that it hurts my head. A disaster. So notification deactivated.
Another of the notifications I have deactivated is that of updates to Home Assistant or some of the associated plugins. It’s not that I’m not interested in it or that I’m not going to update it in when a new update comes out, which you know I’m dedicated to cybersecurity and I give a lot of importance to updates and keep it up to date, but I come in from time to time to Home Assistant, I don’t need a push notification to update at the same time, I can easily update a few hours later when I access Home Assistant’s app for something.
By reviewing the notifications I’ve seen some I created when Controller for HomeKit pulled out the advanced notification functionality And I created to prove it well. For example, I had a notification deactivated that has an accountant, it counts 7 nights that my mobile is connected to the Wifi and the next morning it sends you a notification to change the sheets. Hey, don’t laugh, the people at Controller for HomeKit found it an interesting example. Besides, you can put the counter to zero whenever you want if for example that night you have set fire to your partner and you have the bed with your genet material
I mean, chocolate from that body, hot wax, etc, and you’ve had to change it. He’s thinking. They also set the example of changing the coffee maker filter when it’s turned on X times, but the one on the sheets I like better. What do you mean, I have these notifications off, not because I don’t think they’re useful, but do you imagine the notifications we can make with a simple counter? The sheets, the coffee maker filter, a regular reminder to change the batteries of some important device, the head of the electric toothbrush… all of that we can notify directly from Controller for HomeKit, it is not necessary to do from l
system reminders, so you can thinner and say to notify you only under certain conditions… for example, not to notify you about the change of the vacuum robot’s buckle even if you have made the recommended number of uses if you are on vacation outside the house, so the vacuum cleaner has come out to aspire so that when you get back it’s all great but you can’t change those brushes.
Change Notifications to Conditional Automations
You have to say that the notifications of the type ‘It’s cold in the living room’ which means the temperature is too low… Well, great, put the boiler if there’s anyone at home or around and leave me alone… because if we’re all in Valencia, for example, it still brings it to me the room’s temperature…
The fact is that with this whole process I have greatly reduced the notifications I received on neither phone, not just notifications of domotic devices, but I think it is an interesting exercise that we could do… and to me in particular it has made me feel better, more quiet, and see that I am one of those who have a lot of reminders, a lot of events on the agenda, that if you are out of school of the children, that if you alarms to go out to school to pick them up that you warn me in case I am in the middle of a meeting and I have not realized, that if you are reporting of low batteries (of this notification
target = «_ blank» > I already told you but it’s not one of the ones I had to disable. Since you only tell me when some device has a low battery, it is not that every day you receive the general state of the batteries).
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