Script smart light control with ChatGPT
A commenter hooked ChatGPT up to their home automation system, where it writes scripts to control their smart lights.
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- What they did
- The source only says the poster connected ChatGPT to their home automation system and had it write scripts for smart-light control. It does not describe the automation platform, what access ChatGPT had, whether anything ran automatically, or what human review happened before the scripts were used.
- How it went
- The reported result is simply that the scripts were pretty decent. No examples, performance numbers, or failures are given in the post or visible comments.
Try it yourself with ChatGPT
I use [Home Assistant / other smart home system] and have these lights: [list light names or entity IDs]. Write me a working script that [describe behavior, e.g. dims the living room lights to 30% at sunset], with comments explaining where to paste it and how to test it. Keep it to one script, tell me anything I need to change for my setup, and don't assume device names you haven't been given.
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