Smarten up my Office Chair.

[CCOSTAN]

Using the Wyze Stuff.

[brent20]

You have my attention- What are you thinking here?

[CCOSTAN]

You have my attention- What are you thinking here?

https://youtu.be/cL8wQHE9-EA

YouTube

Making your chair smart for 10$

I used a contact sensor to make my chair smart. Each time I sit the sensor makes contact and sends this information to Home Assistant. From there you can mak...

[CCOSTAN]

@brent20 - If you do it, you need to send me the footage so I can make a video using the Wyse stuff. :)

[brent20]

This is what I was thinking! Unfortunately though I don't have an Aeron and my home office chair doesn't have any logical place to attach the door sensor to :( There's a whole lot of great options for this though like triggering a busy light outside your home office or as a condition to do or not do things if you're in your office vs. somewhere else in the house (like room presence detection). This will be sweet, I look forward to seeing what you can do with it!

[CCOSTAN]

I might have to buy an Aeron to test this properly. :)

[brent20]

Update to this: I eventually went with simply bringing in my Webex Teams status which opened up a new level of WFH automations.

https://brentsaltzman.com/cisco-webex-with-home-assistant/

Brent Saltzman

Bring your Webex status into Home Assistant

(If you are visiting this page on a mobile device and having an issue seeing the pictures, click here to visit the non-amp version) If you have been working from home like me since the start of March 2020, you have come to rely on tools like Webex Teams, Microsoft

[CCOSTAN]

Bought a steelcase chair for this:

https://amzn.to/3DRcO5d

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