I use MXRoute which is inexpensive and run by someone who has the strong opinions of a wise grey beard. Also Black Friday/holiday sales can make the cost even more reasonable. Doesn’t have the suite of accessory products like some other options but it’s excellent for what it is.

Thanks for sharing these and linking the MCP you’re using. I like the “subscribe” for notifications idea with a multi-person household and the total cycle logging. I’ve heard from others too that dashboards are a good use case but I haven’t tried yet myself.

My biggest Claude automation success was also washer/dryer. I have a stacked washer+dryer with power monitoring on the washer and a vibration sensor on the dryer (240V in US, annoying to get power monitoring without CT clamps in the breaker box). Washer vibrates the dryer sensor, etc. But finally got a logic flow where I can reliably get washer or dryer notifications using an automation to change a state machine and trigger notifications. Would have gotten frustrated sooner without Claude I reckon.

I mostly use this claude-homeassistant project. It uses a simple workflow (make pull, Claude code plan/make your changes, make push) and has some handy features like validation and backups.

However, I will say that most of the automations that Claude makes kinda suck. Hard to explain but I have to iterate a bunch of times to get what I’m actually after. Not the end of the world but it uses a lot of tokens to ultimately make a handful of small changes. I love technology and even enjoy using some LLM products but I’m frequently disappointed with the results haha.

I’d say good use cases would be entity management and debugging automation traces. Besides that, I’ve found the uses limited.

Would be interested to hear if you find other impactful uses.