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It's all about having multiple ways to control things, smart and dumb. For example, in my house:

• When I turn off the hallway lights at night, it turns all the lights off in the house. They're still controllable by physical switch, and that one light I turn off is just a trigger for that automation

• I have a ton of windows, most of which face east. This is wonderful in winter, but turns my house into an oven early in the morning on a sunny summer day. I also like my privacy at night. So I have an automation to open the motorized shades at sunrise (fully on a cold/cloudy day, otherwise only partially) and close them at sunset. But there's still a little button on the shades if I need to open or close one (rare)

• My wife would always forget to turn on the bathroom fan when she showered, so the bedroom turned into a sauna. So naturally I got a humidity monitor and made an automation to turn that fan on when it gets too humid (and another to kill that fan when it's run for 10 minutes)

All of this runs on Home Assistant, which is on a Raspberry Pi I have at home. The only connection to the outside world is my weather checks

Automation doesn't mean it has to have zero human interaction to work, just that things happen automatically somehow. My oven automatically maintains a temperature, but that doesn't mean I didn't set that temperature first