Comment on Home Automation: Simple vs Easy by nospam

In reply to Snarkenstein.

If you live in your parent's basement and don't pay the utility bills then automating your energy use is a nothing burger. If you are interested in moving your electricity usage from on-peak to off-peak to save a 300% cost increase based on time-of-day consumption then automation can be helpful. If you are in the habit of leaving the windows open in winter with the heat on, and/or, if you leave the windows open with the A/C on in summer, then automation and energy efficiency and cost management isn't an issue for you because you are independently wealthy by inheritance, you have a sense of entitlement, and your slaves work for free if they know what's good for them.