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Whisper turning a number into a word fucked my next water bill (blimps.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Basically, I was super tired getting home from an event last night and didn't even notice the water hadn't stopped flowing normally. It's quiet so I don't normally hear it.

Apparently at some point a couple hours in a fitting in my drip setup blew, flooding my peppers planter entirely and in the process burning through nearly 4000 liters of water before I caught it on my way out the door to work this morning.

I've since learned there's a Z2M command to start watering on a timer, but I didn't know that before and trusted Whisper to not fuck this up. My fault.

Don't think my water bill company will be amenable to it. I'll call and ask but, fuck.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago

In automation, there is more steps than that. You would use barriers, where one should be physical. For certain applications, you would also use a failsafe feedback loop. In this case, disaster could have been averted with a flow restrictor valve.

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