On Air: Control your smart devices when an event occurs on your Mac

On Air

Maker

Backstory: I started working from home in July of 2020. I've got two small children at home, so I was looking for an easy way for them to know that I can't be interrupted during meetings. I built this app so that while I'm on a video call, a WiFi light bulb turns on outside of my office. Now, my kids know if the light is on, I can't be interrupted. --- I'm not trying to rebuild IFTTT or anything here - it's intentionally simple! I hope to gain support so I can add other devices (such as Philips Hue bulbs). I've also got feature ideas that I think would be interesting, such as "configure a bulb with colors/options".

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4yr ago

Chris Messina

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Top Hunter

@damonbauer pretty cool...! One step further would be to create scenes... so one that I would probably use would be "Livestreaming", and it would turn on my ring light, my bar light, set my LIFX bulb to a particular setting, pause all my music, and launch a couple apps that I use. WDYT?

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4yr ago

Damon Bauer

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Maker

@chrismessina Thanks a bunch for the feedback! I can absolutely see some powerful use cases like you've described. I'm going to take some time to figure out how I can step my way toward that sort of automation. Thanks again 🙏

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4yr ago