HomeKit turn off countdown timer after manual turn on
Turning on:
heater
fan
light
hose
music
TV
…all of these situations have times where we want the device to auto off after a specific time period. After we turn it on ourself. Not just when it’s activated on a schedule.
Obvious ones are heaters for towels, or heating rooms we are temporarily naked in. Or falling asleep in after sex. Or reading in bed. Don’t want the heater or TV or music or light on all night. Both for when we’re drunk and when we’re exhausted—and won’t remember to turn them off ourselves. And some off us just like falling asleep to devices being on.
Or don’t want the plant or garden flooded with water because we forgot to turn it off. 15mins or other set period is enough after we turned it on.
Or that the garage door will close 5min after we opened it ad hoc.
Seems like basic smart functionality that we’d expect in a version 1 iteration isn’t in HomeKit yet?
[There doesn’t even seem to be a HomeKit topic option. I had to choose HomePod as closest match.]
