I came for fully automated and sentient elf that gets up and moved itself. Not a phone reminder implemented through light switches.

Might want a trail cam rather than wifi camera. they are literally designed for this exact purpose.

I do want to do this. And then I realized that in a fit of frustration with my home automation crap I turned off all the passwords on everything. So now my network is 100% open.

I have to tell you this seems like a lot of frustration. I don’t know what’s up with your setup but HomeSeer is the most rock solid part of my HA setup. It just runs. My biggest problem is that I only ever touch it every year or Two and forget how I have things set up.

The hardware has nothing to do with HS (unless maybe you bought through their online store? But that’s like blaming Amazon for the product you bought.). And why on earth would you complain about Z-wave to homeseer? Do you complain about WiFi standards to Apple?

The software interface is indeed dated and a little kludgy but it gets the job done. But once set up you never need to touch it. I’ll do very simple things in Alexa, but if I need any complex logic or integration with weird crap, I always go back to homeseer.

Mine was like $10. Works flawlessly. Can be switched from motion sensing to occupancy.

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