I have been playing with HA for years. Just as everyone I started out by automating lights and other stuff... And just like (almost) everyone I quickly found

I have been playing with HA for years. Just as everyone I started out by automating lights and other stuff... And just like (almost) everyone I quickly found out my life really isn't structured enough for automation at the level of detail like one light in one room. While I love the "scenes" (turn off X, Y and Z with one press) and the observability (see state of lights on 2nd and 3rd floor at one flance) I pretty much stopped automating stuff. First time lights turn off when Plex starts? Great, like in a cinema! 7th time? After discovering 500 edge cases. Not so much. Now I'm in the process of creating mini-dashboard per room that I put on a NFC tag next to the door. A quick tap in every room to control everything in that room and nothing more. It's so simple even my wife uses it, usually a good indicator you've actually added some value as opposed to just doing something 'smart' because you can.