https://github.com/simons-plugins/indig ... telligence
An automated email from your home on a weekly basis that gives you an overview of your house. Whats happened, the highlights, energy use, whats worked, what issues there might be, ie low batteries, intermittent wifi, and advice on how you could add some new triggers, and it can even create some simple new ones for you.
It's pretty impressive output. But it also costs as it has to use the Claude API so is chargeable but hands free. About 30-40p per email you receive. You can reply to an email and ask it to implement a new trigger its suggested.A quiet, well-rhythmed week
The house has been ticking along to its usual cadence. Looking at the log, the clearest pattern is the morning/evening heartbeat: activity peaks at 07:00 and again between 18:00 and 20:00, with a secondary bump around 11:00 — the Study waking up, the kitchen coming alive before dinner, the lounge and bedroom routines closing the day. Nothing unusual about the shape; it's just the sound of normal life.
The big workhorse this week has been Auto Lights in the Study. The radar zone applied lighting changes 72 times, triggered by Study Presence roughly a hundred times between entries and exits — Simon's WFH rhythm written into Indigo. The Study Pendant, Lamp and Bookcase Lights are each turning on and off 35–40 times a day as you move around, which is exactly what the zone is meant to do. Over in the kitchen, the daytime and evening schedules (7pm, 8pm, 9pm pendant staging, plus motion-driven cool/warm CCT changes) have been firing reliably — the Hall Lamp has swung cool/warm 25 times with nothing dropping out.
Heating: the downstairs boiler ran ~60 on/off cycles this week, which is typical for the shoulder season. Study heat was requested 34 times and satisfied every time. Simon's Study-WFH cancel fired 8 times, same story. Airing cupboard is holding steady around 25°C.
The front of the house: porch motion has been doing its evening job (11 evening-off cycles, 11 motion-ons), the front door open-timer has tripped 34 times across the week (normal-ish traffic), the gate auto-unlocks for the gardener at 07:00 Friday and re-locks at 19:00, and the alarm has armed at 00:30 and disarmed at 06:30 like clockwork.
Appliances: four tumble drier cycles (as we just saw), the washing machine was busy with ~23k state changes logged — someone's been putting it through its paces. The coffee machine has been shut down three times a day by the staggered safety schedules.
This leverages Mike MCP server as well as sql logger tools from Domio and some new tools.
But there's more.
Add the Home Intelligence MCP server along with Mike's to Claude Desktop and you can talk to your house for free using your plan and get history alongside the existing devices, and get that same insight as above but for free. And create rules interactively.
It debugged why a tilt device wasnt firing on my milk bottle box that alerts me to bring it in, as the milkman was very careful putting bottles in, but it spotted that the temperature in the box dropped 5 degrees when the milk went in, and there was motion on my porch sensor at the same time, so proposed and implemented some back up rules by itself.
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A few ideas that would each tell a different story with the same data:
**Heatmap grid** — zones as rows, days as columns, with colour intensity showing moisture level. This is probably the most powerful alternative: you can immediately see which zones are chronically dry vs. wet, spot watering events as colour jumps, and compare all zones side-by-side without the spaghetti line problem.
**Small multiples / sparklines** — one tiny chart per zone in a grid, each with its own y-axis. Much less cluttered than all 10 lines together, and easier to see the shape of each zone's individual pattern.
**Current status gauges** — circular dial gauges showing just the current moisture for each zone, colour-coded. Less about history, more about "what needs attention right now." Good as a morning check-in view.
**Moisture vs. weather overlay** — your Netro controller already has weather data (temperature, rain probability, wind speed) in its state. Overlaying that on the moisture chart would make it really clear which moisture drops are weather-driven (hot/windy days) vs. which might indicate a zone being skipped by the smart schedule.
**Threshold alert table** — a simple table showing each zone, its current moisture, how many days since it was last above a target threshold (say 60%), and next scheduled watering. Very actionable.
The heatmap would probably be the most visually striking and useful addition — want me to build that one?
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