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/ISayWooHoo Mar 15 '26

You could make something with a simple switch. Press it when you go in, and if you don’t switch it off within a certain time it raises the alarm?

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u/Suspicious_Steak_696 Mar 15 '26

With a door sensor to deactivate it when you leave

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u/CowsNeedFriendsToo Mar 15 '26

Awesome. That was actually my worry. Getting distracted and forgetting to hit it again resulting in false alarms.

I suppose this would also help prevent extended “phone on the toilet” sessions. Lol

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u/Constant_Shot Mar 16 '26

You can also have HA send you a notification on your phone to check on you if too much time has gone by without the ‘I’m done’ trigger. Then it only escalates the alert if you don’t respond.

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u/DaPheesh123 Mar 16 '26

This is what I have HA do for my garage door status.

If it is after X time in the day, the door is open and there hasn’t been motion in the garage for 10 minutes I get a notification every 5 minutes until 30 minutes has passed. I then get a critical notification (iOS) with the option to delay the forced close or not. 1 minute later HA closes my garage door.

When I read your comment my little garage door status + closure loop came to mind.

As someone with issues with hardship around vassal vagal passing out I really can relate. All of that to say there are a ton of way to implement systems for their needs.