homeassistant@lemmy.worldby4lan@lemmy.world
5 hours

"Time Since Last Shower" tracking

English

I constantly forget to take showers due to depression. I know I’m not the only one 😂 summer is early here in Texas and I don’t want to be the stinky dude

Uses the humidity readings of my bathroom to determine whether I was in the shower:

  • A running 1 hour average of the bathroom humidity is measured.
  • If the current humidity is 8% above the average, it is triggered as “wet”.
  • Then it marks down the last time, and then converts that to “days & hours since” last shower.

I have a badge at the top of my main dashboard that will let me know how long it’s been. It’s already been useful. If I see anything over 2 days I know it’s past time for a shower

I got a false positive from washing my hands when it was set to trigger by 5% increases, so I changed it to 8%.

Happy to share my code if anyone wants to do the same!

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4 hours

      If you want to hijack your depressed reward system further, you could try to show a streak of how many days you’ve gone without missing a shower.

      • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        Good idea! I aim for 2 days. My skin and hair hate Texas water

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2 minutes

          I think that’s the opposite of what OP wants but still a nice technical challenge nonetheless

    • amelore@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4 hours

      I have also checked what time I showered with the logs of the humidity sensor. It’s a small bathroom so humidity goes from like 30% to 50% in 2-3 minutes and to 60% by the time I’m done showering. Normal humidity here is 25 to 40. So I just put the trigger on 55%, no average or comparing with another room necessary.

      My use case was triggering the existing ventilation but I haven’t gotten around to changing the switch for that yet.

      • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        I’d like to do the same eventually. I rent though so it would have to be reversible

    • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Also! I was able to use this to make my PIR sensor presence detection more accurate

      before it would not see me in my shower and think im not there. Now that automation only triggers if the bathroom is also ‘dry’

      • walden@wetshav.ingEnglish
        4 hours

        You didn’t ask me, but as someone who has fiddled with these things my favorite sensor is the BME680, specifically the board that Adafruit sells. It costs more than other sensors, but that’s because it’s the best. It also does temperature, atmospheric pressure, and measures VOC. I think you can even use it to detect when someone takes a poo, but I haven’t tried.

        I connect mine to LOLIN D1 Minies running Tasmota.

      • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        just the DHT-22 running on a Wemos D1.
        I set it up using ESPhome

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4 hours

      Could make it more accurate by using a moisture sensor and placing the prongs in the shower. Could also just add a smart button on the show door/wall that you press when you shower to reset the timer.

      I have a water shutoff that I installed to cut my kids showers off, they have to press a button to turn on the shower valve. So it runs for 10min and then cuts off. Hmm my son forgets to shower often so maybe I should do something similar to remind him.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19 minutes

        Could make it more accurate by using a moisture sensor and placing the prongs in the shower.

        Or better yet, plumb a flow rate meter into the supply pipe.

      • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        I might look into that if this ends up giving false positives or something. So far it’s working great

        I do the ability to manually change the date and time of last shower. I had to do that when tweaking the sensitivity

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 hours

      Frequent showers are a bit overrated, especially when done with soap which strips your skin microbiota. 😅

      Great automation tho!

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
          3 hours

          My skin didn’t appear to give a shit up until my mid-30s. Perhaps I just didn’t notice cause it wasn’t bad enough. These days a proper bath with soap produces dry and itchy skin. That’s why I’ve switched to mostly water with mild soap only for the smell-accumulating regions. Basically balance smell control with skin health. I also haven’t had any fungal skin overgrowth since then.

          My 20-year-old self would be disgusted by my 40-year-old one. 😅

          That said, am married and wife is happy with the total VOC output so I have the privilege to not have to cater to other standards.

      • walden@wetshav.ingEnglish
        3 hours

        I half agree with you. I shower daily but only use soap on my pits and bits. If I’ve done yardwork or exercise I’ll hit everything with soap, though.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
          2 hours

          Yeah, I also tend to soap just the smell generators and vary soap/frequency depending on the intensity.