They stopped selling them in NZ years ago, I have a grey market mk6 and it works fine here and in the US

Hmm I live in NZ, our only native mammal is a bat, which can fly. And we’ve got Kiwi, Kākāpō, Takahē and so many penguins that can’t fly. Mammals take it I’m afraid

We have it hidden in the letterbox. The mobile app has a Bluetooth beacon setting where you can have it report either specified beacons to HA, or all of them and you can filter for the ones you want at that end.

The automation looks for the beacon to be reported from either of 2 devices and then switches the lights on, quite basic.

We have a separate automation that turns the scanning for beacons setting in the phone app on at dusk and off at 3am. And another that turns the garden lights off after 10 min triggered by them being switched on

description: ""
mode: single
triggers:
  - value_template: >-
      {{ state_attr('sensor.phone1_beacon_monitor',
      'b5b182c7-eab1-4988-aa99-bd9_1_2') != None  }}
    trigger: template
  - value_template: >-
      {{ state_attr('sensor.phone2_beacon_monitor',
      'b5b182c7-eab1-4988-aa99-bd9_1_2') != None  }}
    trigger: template
conditions: []
actions:
  - data: {}
    target:
      entity_id:
        - switch.garden_lights
        - switch.deck_light_table
        - switch.deck_light_bbq
    action: switch.turn_on
  - event: beaconDetected
    event_data: {}
  - if:
      - condition: numeric_state
        entity_id: zone.home
        below: 1
    then:
      - data: {}
        target:
          device_id:
            - b5c12ce8343fda7810b69c24f
            - a71515f86d7d34ef570acbe8
        action: light.turn_on

Yes we have several of the AthomTech ones that ship with Esphome. There’s a power loss setting on them “on, off, as before”

Yeah we use it with home assistant, and Bluetooth beacons to turn on the garden lights when we get home, and turn on interior lights if neither of us are marked as home. Also turn on the electric blanket if we are out and heading towards home after 9pm. Also the person detection camera only alerts us if we aren’t home.

What’s all this cutlery for then?

You’ve got a few of my suggestions so I’ll follow up with…

https://youtube.com/adafruit if you like electronics

https://youtube.com/@physicsgirl hopefully she’ll be back from her long covid at some point soon

https://youtube.com/@britishmuseum no one presenter but a good range of curators

We have an ad for ice-creams in NZ that covers this topic https://youtu.be/h-Lx2ihpGbc

Or oxygen supply

I’m afraid you’ll never get a desk job with that amount of girth ecentricity.