Smart Bottle Low Cost

This time I’m not gonna tell you exactly about compatible domotics. Although to do this nonsense I have served what I have been learning over the years.

As you know, I run out every morning at 6: 30, in fact many of my automations have to do with this and they turn on the bathroom heater if it’s cold or turn off the entrance light as soon as I walk out the door. I take these training pretty seriously and I like to get better, so I measure a lot of parameters. For me the Apple Health app is fundamental And I like to measure everything measurable.. I was even introducing (never better said) the ‘spikes’ I was throwing with my wife in the section of Sexual Activity and then hesitating with friends: D

Far from this bullshit, one of the important parameters that I’ve always wanted to measure the water I drink during the day. in order to be properly hydrated, avoid cramps and so on. Over the years I’ve tried different solutions.. I’ve been using for a long time. WaterMinderwhere I recorded the different sizes of bottles and glasses I had at home and from the same Apple

Watch was checking the liquid. Yeah, I know what’s important is the habit… but I wanted to have all this info in the Health app by the time the time comes for my doctor to access it directly.

At one time it’s been my head to buy a smart bottle of those that are measuring the liquid you drink every time and automatically record it in the app that you normally connect to by bluetooth… but it’s worth a lot of money, I think it’s not worth it, I wanted something else. low cost… so I did it myself: D

Low cost for real

At home I have a bottle of those Decathlon with a screw stopper, specifically This one you can see costs €2,99. It is very resistant and easily washed in the dishwasher:

I just hit the bottle. an NFC sticker I’ve already told you about many times because I have them distributed around the house to shoot some automations. I use these labels that, As you can see, they cost less than 50 cents each. Amazon tells me the last time I bought them was in 2019… it’s been raining a little since. We carry the €3.5 friolera in costs.

And now the magic: shortcuts

Before you put the NFC sticker in the bottle, I went through my head to make a simple shortcut that would put in Health the amount of drinking water The same thing he does. WaterMinder but in a rough way, without the little drawing of the bottle that is being filled or gamification… but In the end it is a brace to unblock the iPhone and run the shortcut (although you can put it on the Start screen without problems, shortcuts already allows that) every time you drink water. The NFC sticker solution is much better. I just created this simple shortcut:

So Every time I finish the water bottle and I have to fill it again, I just put the mobile to the sticker to run the shortcut and fix! All you have to keep in mind is that the screen is on, since the shortcut works with the mobile blocked without problems but the screen has to be on as otherwise NFC chip does not work for safety reasons.

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