Welcome to my basement 🧪

This is an experiment for an idea I had.
The picture of my HomeLab gets auto updated every minute.

💡 Turn lights on!
The automation takes some time, 1-2 minutes. The light is automatically turned off after 2 minutes.

How does it work?

• when you click the button a request to a certain URL on Caddy is made
• Caddy writes this to a log file
• a not exposed VM is fetching the log every min via cron and searches for that URL
• if the URL is included it triggers a Home Assistant automation which
• notifies me on the phone
• turns on a shelly plug
• waits 2 min
• turns off the shelly plug