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What's the best way to detect when I'm taking a shower?
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A waterflow sensor makes the most sense to me too, but it doesn't have to be inside the pipes. A microphone glued to a pipe should be able to detect the vibrations due to waterflow and hardly anything else.
Perhaps combine with a motion sensor to see if the lights should be on at all. Then the microphone only switches between modes.
Oh, good point. Water flow can be loud when you are right up on the pipe. You could also keep it from picking up other noise with insulation. And the detection might not have to be that fancy then. Just amplitude.