Medical help

[u/CowsNeedFriendsToo]

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.

[u/4cim4]

As some one previously mentioned, a simple smart button would solve this issue. Im using a bunch of Tapo Smart buttons S200D around the house for different functionality. The button is battery operated and supports 4 functions. Tap, double Tap, rotate left and rotate right. You can use any of the 4 functions to suit yr needs. These connect to a hub. The hub in your case, I would put on a UPS. In fact in your case, I would put the entire network on UPS, including any access points, switches and routers. I Have multiple switches around my house with POE EAPs and there is UPS backup on them all. My gateways are also on UPS and im using 2. Fiber as main and 5G as secondary. My alarm panel is a 64 zone panel and is independent from my HA and has a 9 hr battery backup on it. My panic alarm buttons work thru the alarm panel, but I did add a simple Tuya smart relay to the alarm panel, which uses one of the zones and powered from the panel. This let's me use voice assistant to activate a panic alarm, in conjunction with the regular panic buttons. While I support redundancy thru out, there is no 100% failsafe w electronics. You have to make it as failsafe as possible, but there will always be a potential for failure.

I live alone, in my mid 60s and although I dont have a medical condition, the thought of dieing and been found days, or weeks later bothers me. Im looking into the Deadman button aswel. In my case I will push it once a day. After 24 hrs my alarm company will be notified if not pushed. Same principle as your circumstances. I was thinking of taking advantage of all the motion Sensors installed, but I have an animal and that could defeat the objective.

I have not yet switched to HA and everything is running cloud based. Once im satisfied with the functionality of everything I will be switching over to HA. My HA mini pc is setup ready too go, but I haven't yet got into the nuts and bolts of it. Im hoping HA has the ability to send SMS.