I constantly forget to take showers due to depression. I know I’m not the only one 😂 summer is early here in Texas and I don’t want to be the stinky dude
Uses the humidity readings of my bathroom to determine whether I was in the shower:
- A running 1 hour average of the bathroom humidity is measured.
- If the current humidity is 8% above the average, it is triggered as “wet”.
- Then it marks down the last time, and then converts that to “days & hours since” last shower.
I have a badge at the top of my main dashboard that will let me know how long it’s been. It’s already been useful. If I see anything over 2 days I know it’s past time for a shower
I got a false positive from washing my hands when it was set to trigger by 5% increases, so I changed it to 8%.
Happy to share my code if anyone wants to do the same!
Frequent showers are a bit overrated, especially when done with soap which strips your skin microbiota. 😅
Great automation tho!
Not everyone is the same.
I agree, my skin does too
My skin didn’t appear to give a shit up until my mid-30s. Perhaps I just didn’t notice cause it wasn’t bad enough. These days a proper bath with soap produces dry and itchy skin. That’s why I’ve switched to mostly water with mild soap only for the smell-accumulating regions. Basically balance smell control with skin health. I also haven’t had any fungal skin overgrowth since then.
My 20-year-old self would be disgusted by my 40-year-old one. 😅
That said, am married and wife is happy with the total VOC output so I have the privilege to not have to cater to other standards.
I half agree with you. I shower daily but only use soap on my pits and bits. If I’ve done yardwork or exercise I’ll hit everything with soap, though.
Yeah, I also tend to soap just the smell generators and vary soap/frequency depending on the intensity.