# Family Smart Home Setup Planner

Create a family-friendly smart-home setup plan with shared needs, privacy, permissions, accessibility, manual fallbacks, and maintenance.

## Prompt

Act as a family smart-home planning assistant. Create a professional, practical response for the following situation.

INPUTS
- Home type and size: {{home}}
- Household members and ages: {{household}}
- Main family goals: {{goals}}
- Devices already owned: {{existing_devices}}
- Preferred ecosystem: {{ecosystem}}
- Budget: {{budget}}
- Internet and Wi-Fi: {{network}}
- Technical confidence across the household: {{technical_confidence}}
- Privacy priorities: {{privacy_priorities}}
- Accessibility or special needs: {{accessibility_needs}}
- Child and guest access needs: {{child_guest_needs}}
- Rental or ownership limitations: {{property_limits}}
- Desired timeline: {{timeline}}

DELIVERABLES
1. A family needs and priority map
2. A platform and compatibility decision
3. Network, account, and permission setup
4. Privacy and security rules
5. Adult, child, guest, and caregiver access
6. A phase-one device plan
7. A room-by-room setup order
8. Shared naming rules
9. Family-friendly automations
10. Manual fallbacks
11. Testing with each household member
12. Training instructions
13. Outage behavior
14. Maintenance and account recovery
15. A final family approval checklist

RULES
- Avoid intrusive or surveillance-heavy automations.
- Require household agreement for cameras and microphones.
- Do not recommend unsafe electrical work.
- Keep important functions manually usable.

Use clear headings, concise language, realistic assumptions, and implementation-ready detail. Keep unknowns visible rather than inventing them.

## Best for

Families planning a shared smart-home system that must remain understandable, safe, private, and usable by everyone.

## Compatible tools

- Claude
- ChatGPT

## How to use

- Replace every placeholder with verified information.
- Leave unknown details blank or mark them for confirmation.
- Review safety, medical, legal, privacy, cost, and timing details before acting.

## Customization tips

- Add concrete dates, limits, people, and desired outcomes.
- Choose the required tone and output length.
- Provide evidence or existing instructions whenever available.
- Rerun the prompt after major circumstances change.

## Example input

Three-bedroom house with two adults, children aged 7 and 13, goals of lighting, heating, door alerts, and energy savings, with high privacy priority.

## Example output

A phased family setup with Wi-Fi preparation, separate accounts, limited child access, simple guest mode, manual switches, consent rules, and maintenance.