I constantly forget to take showers due to depression. I know I’m not the only one 😂 summer is early here in Texas and I don’t want to be the stinky dude
Uses the humidity readings of my bathroom to determine whether I was in the shower:
- A running 1 hour average of the bathroom humidity is measured.
- If the current humidity is 8% above the average, it is triggered as “wet”.
- Then it marks down the last time, and then converts that to “days & hours since” last shower.
I have a badge at the top of my main dashboard that will let me know how long it’s been. It’s already been useful. If I see anything over 2 days I know it’s past time for a shower
I got a false positive from washing my hands when it was set to trigger by 5% increases, so I changed it to 8%.
Happy to share my code if anyone wants to do the same!
Edit: code in a comment below!
If you want to hijack your depressed reward system further, you could try to show a streak of how many days you’ve gone without missing a shower.
For me streaks are a double edged sword; if I break a streak then the stat becomes a disincentive
I actually have that too. I stopped using duolingo because I got so obcesed with my streak that once I broke it I lost all will to use it anymore.
I have that same problem. I feel like nobody else I talk to understands what I’m saying.
Why not try a challenge for how long you can go without a shower?
Or just trigger a machine which dispenses a treat whenever “wet” is detected
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I have also checked what time I showered with the logs of the humidity sensor. It’s a small bathroom so humidity goes from like 30% to 50% in 2-3 minutes and to 60% by the time I’m done showering. Normal humidity here is 25 to 40. So I just put the trigger on 55%, no average or comparing with another room necessary.
My use case was triggering the existing ventilation but I haven’t gotten around to changing the switch for that yet.
Could you not also tie it into if the ceiling fan is running? Or a flow sensor on the shower?
I’m just thinking of natural humidity and how that might skew the numbers.
That’s a really cool and neat way to pull it off. I helped myself shower more by attaching a NFC tag to the shower wall and have an alarm my phone that can only be turned off by tapping the tag. The thinking is that I might as well shower while I’m there.
i have a humidity sensor in the bathroom that turns the ceiling fan on, and the way that works is that it compares the bathroom humidity to humidity in other areas of the house, so it takes into account humid/dry days automatically
That’s a great idea -some of the numbers people are putting out here seem so strange: last time I opened my windows, humidity shot up to 90%
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I just got tested myself so I might be in the same boat! Waiting to get the results
Here is my Automation:
alias: Update Last Shower Time description: "" triggers: - entity_id: binary_sensor.showering from: "on" to: "off" trigger: state actions: - data: datetime: "{{ now() }}" action: input_datetime.set_datetime target: entity_id: input_datetime.last_showerYou need to create a ‘DateTime’ helper called “Last Shower” This is where the last shower time will be stored (and can be changed)
You need a ‘Statistics’ Helper too. Call it “Average Bathroom Humidity” and base it on whatever humidity sensor you have. Make it “average linear” then set Max Age to 1 hour. (leave other options default)
Make these template sensors too:
Template Binary Sensor called “Showering”:
{{ (states('sensor.bathroom_sensor_humidity')|float - states('sensor.average_bathroom_humidity')|float) > 9 }}Template Sensor called “Time Since Last Shower”:
% set diff = now() - as_datetime(states('input_datetime.last_shower')).astimezone() %} {% set days = diff.days %} {% set hours = (diff.seconds // 3600) %} {% if days > 0 %} {{ days }} day{{ 's' if days > 1 }} {{ hours }} hour{{ 's' if hours != 1 }} {% else %} {{ hours }} hour{{ 's' if hours != 1 }} {% endif %}Let me know if you hit any snags!
Also! I was able to use this to make my PIR sensor presence detection more accurate
before it would not see me in my shower and think im not there. Now that automation only triggers if the bathroom is also ‘dry’
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thats the goal! It’s a glass door though, does that matter?
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Update. mmWave works through the glass great!
In fact it sees me through the wall before I even enter the bathroom now. Super cool! Got two and set on up in my office
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