What's your most pointless or silliest automation?

On Christmas morning, when the motion sensor in the hallway next to the living room is triggered, it slowly turns on the Christmas tree, turns on the stereo, sets the stereo volume to 0, starts a Christmas music playlist, then slowly turns up the volume.

Nabu announces, "The great fire orb has retreated" every evening at sunset.

When my girlfriend is over and the freezer door is open, I play ice ice baby. It never fails to cause some eye rolls

I have an NFC take at the bottom of the stairs that I scan before going up for the night. It turns off all the appropriate lights downstairs, bedroom lights on upstairs, sets the air filters, etc. But it also has the voice assistant tell me good night and to sleep well. Because I apparently need that to happen.

my daughter's heart shaped mirror (DIY pixel strip) rotates a rainbow for her to get out of bed

When I plug my phone in to charge, it says “Oh yeah, stick it in me, baby”.

Yes, I am a fully grown adult.

And I can do what the fuck I want (regardless how much my partner requests I do not do what the fuck I want).

In alarm away mode, if motion sensor in the middle of the house is triggered without having set off the motion sensors elsewhere, disable that sensor until alarm disabled.

Friggin' hyperactive cat, doing leaping zoomies.

My Chromecast slowly stopped turning on the sound system and TV via CEC so instead of buying a new one, my family knows there's a red button in the theater room. It cuts the power to the Chromecast via a smart switch and then power cycles the TV and sound system. Saved us $100 and the world some e-waste.

Giant halloween window eyes that randomly wink every few mins.

One of the dumb things my girlfriend and I do is call out one another for forgetting about Dre.

I have a Home Assistant automation that simply sends the following message as a notification to her phone:

"Reporters are on the scene in [redacted], where earlier today, blue collar workers encountered a Florida woman who forgot about Dre."

I didn't set any triggers, just manually ran it while she was at home after our air conditioner was serviced.

Our assistant speaker tells us... "Your shit's clean" and "Your shit's dry" a few minutes after the washer/dryer stop (just using power consumption stopping). Useful I guess but generally you can hear them stop. It was more for comedic value than anything else.

I have a couch light turn on when I sit down at a certain spot on the couch after sunset at 30% using an "Everything Presense sensor" totally to play with my wave tech

When I turn the coffee maker on (or off), it's light also gets turned on (or off). I couldn't just used the same switched socket for both, but I had one free so here we are.

My fancy toaster came with dire warnings to not leave it plugged in when it's unsupervised, presumably because the cut-off on the mechanical timer can fail. Instead I plugged it into a smart socket with an automation to kill the power if there's a continuous draw for more than 4 minutes.

Not for fun but probably my most pointless. Other than when I was testing it I don't expect this automation to ever fire.

At one of my jobs of scripting, I remember hearing about somebody using "eject" Linux command to make an adjacent computer reboot.

A device was occasionally failing and I wanted to know about it fairly quickly. I didn't always notice push notifications, so I made my room light cycle through the rainbow. It's hard to miss.

It's not pointless, but needlessly silly: as part of the alarm system, in addition to the standard siren, the home audio system turns on and plays Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" at full volume.

At 7pm on school nights, one of a number of versions of "Hushabye Mountain" is played, if music isn't already playing.

I'm using a few numpads as simple remote controls for HA, and I got a bit carried away and set 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to set the alarm clock time for the following morning.

Never used it, I always just set the alarm time through the UI

I built a pressure plate in my bed so when I get in bed after the sun has gone down it puts my adaptive lighting in sleep mode, and turns off all the lights in the house.

I broke my daughters cuckoo clock so I gutted it, replaced the circuits with a pi and made a HASS interface so I can adjust the cuckoo/alarm/nightlight times from a webpage.

I mean. I tell HA "To play that song I like" and it plays "Lone Digger" by Caravan Palace. Back in the olden days of Google Home I had a routine called "shut up" that would turn off the mic if I told it to (if a show or audio playing mentioned "hey google".

When I first setup my Christmas tree lights on a smart switch I created an automation with Google Home where you'd tell Google to turn off the Christmas tree, Google would respond "Ho ho ho... ho"

I set up a smart plug to turn a lamp on when I started a print on my bambu printer and then it turns it off when it finishes. More so testing the automation stuff, but I eventually want to do more things.

I had a Marvin Gaye protocol. All the lights in the house would go out, certain lights would come back on dimly and Sexual Healing would start playing.

Even though I live in a studio apartment, when my doorbell goes off (dumb doorbell with a tiny mic next to it) I have HA set the alarm volume to max on both my phone and tablet and send an alarm trigger. It sounds like a bunch of sirens going off whenever someone rings the doorbell. But it's not entirely pointless, because I wear noise-cancelling headphones all the time whenever I'm home, so there's always a chance I won't hear the doorbell going off.

A couple of years ago I lived in a house with a few friends that we rented from one of their parents. They had a somewhat extensive homeassistant setup. We set up a couple of fun automations.

-Enter 8675309 on a keypad by the door - Play the song at full volume

-Enter 911 - Play police sirens at gradually increasing volume

-Enter 420 - Play that one sample of Snoop Dogg saying "smoke weed every day."

-Leave the fridge or freezer door open for more than five minutes, start playing Dare to be Stupid by Weird Al at full volume and set all of the lights to red.