All ideasMore in Home
Home

Every morning my setup tells me when to charge the car and when to run the laundry

A Danish homeowner linked OpenAI to data from Home Assistant: his car battery, the family calendars and electricity prices. Every morning he gets a small report with advice on when to charge the car and when to wash and dry clothes.

How it works

  1. Home Assistant reads car battery, calendars and power prices
  2. Data runs through his local n8n setup
  3. OpenAI reads the selected data
  4. A report with charging and laundry advice arrives every morning

Why it’s worth knowing

It checks whether the car is even home, using the family calendars, before it says when to charge.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

Upgraded prompt

A ready-to-use prompt for this idea, built from research on what makes AI agents do the job right: who the AI should be, the exact steps, and a check to make sure it was done the way you wanted.

1Who the AI should be
2The prompt, with the steps
3The check when it’s done
Upgraded prompts are coming soon.

Try next

HomeA man in Kyiv built a tool that only pings him when drone reports come close to homeHomeSchool prints go in Slack. Our family calendar fills itself.HomeRun an 8-bot crew to haggle my car purchase down $4,200$4,200 one timeHomeHe became president of a broke condo association and built the system that pulled it out of debt

Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.