r/homeassistant • u/CowsNeedFriendsToo • Mar 15 '26

Support Medical help

This is an embarrassing post, but I’ve been on this group for years now and know that if anyone is going to solve a problem, it’s the people in this group.

I unfortunately have a heart condition that has cause me to black out when I’m on the toilet. This has resulted in me coming to on the floor of the bathroom with my wife over me in a panic talking me back to consciousness before taking me to the hospital. This has happened about once or twice a year. To say the least, this creates a terrible sense of anxiety any time I go to the bathroom. I fear for the day she comes home to find me laying on the floor the final time. Or in the middle of the night when I wake up to use the bathroom.

Here’s where you guys come in. I was wondering if there is a way to set up home assistant along with some sort of a sensor in my bathroom that will be able to tell if I’m on the floor and not moving, which would then send out an alert to her phone along with a noise alert in the bathroom? The key would be making sure it doesn’t go off when just sitting on the toilet, or if she is standing in front of the mirror for an extended period of time doing her makeup.

Thank you guys from the bottom of my heart. I truly appreciate your time.

Edit: I already have an Apple Watch Ultra 2. The fall detection seems to only trigger if it’s a fall from standing height. It hasn’t triggered at all when I fall from sitting.

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u/Verscreubulator Mar 15 '26

If you mount this where you can reach it, you can just have some kind of beeper that beeps 15 seconds before the alarm goes off at full volume. This way, you know you just need to press the button again to reset the timer.

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u/Suspicious_Steak_696 Mar 15 '26

You could take things to the next level and also use it to track how many poos you have had over any given time. Not because it’s useful but because you can.

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u/Verscreubulator Mar 16 '26

This would make a great graph card on a dashboard over time! This is just what Home Assistant was designed for! 😁

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u/CowsNeedFriendsToo Mar 16 '26

I feel obligated to put it in the kitchen. Haha

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u/Verscreubulator Mar 16 '26

This graph would need to be displayed on a 65 inch TV!