I love to have as much of our life automated for myself and others so I can focus on our work primarily.
For instance, our coffee maker is set to go off right when I want to wake up every morning.
It’s amazing to wake up to the stink of fresh coffee first thing in the morning. It helps myself and others wake up in the morning knowing that otherwise I have to hit snooze half a dozen times just to pull myself out of unconsciousness. I have also used odd kinds of alarms, including 1 that wakes myself and others up using songs. That is automated through our smart unit that I have inside our study room that will automatically learn myself and others the time of the day as well as give myself and others the outdoor temperature if I ask it. As for the temperature in our house, that is programmed into our smart control unit. I hated having to get up throughout the day to adjust the temperature to account for the swings outside. For instance, I love it chilly while I sleep but I constantly raise the temperature in the house during the day to compensate for the sun’s radiant heat. So while I might sleep with the cooling system set to 72 degrees, I usually leave it close to 76 degrees in the morning hours. It’s awful if I forget to change the control unit as well as leave it on 72 degrees unknowingly, so manually programming the control unit to do this on its own everyday is a huge benefit. While you can do this on many seasoned digital control units, it’s even easier to do it on a smart control unit.