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I'm not a huge fan of the overused term "smart," but for the sake of this question, that's what I'll call it.

My shower has a 2 outlet digital valve (U by Moen). I'm installing the same for the tub/shower. One outlet will go to the tub, and one to the shower.

One of the features of this valve system is the ability to tell Alexa or Google to turn on the shower. That's fine and dandy and all, but I currently have no actual solution to handling automation of the bathtub stopper...so drawing a bath still involves visiting the bathtub which yields the voice command feature useless.

I can program Home Assistant to handle opening and closing of certain devices...so I was thinking I could put an electronic waste valve on the drain pipe, much like an electronic solenoid valve on the water line for a sprinkler, etc.

Anyone here familiar with a simple open/close electronic valve that would handle the drain pipe on a tub? I suppose it would need to handle a 2" pipe. If I can find that, I can incorporate it into the automation that sets up the bath. It could also be used to detect overflow and automatically drain if it appears there's a tub-overflow.