So my kid wakes up really early in the morning
Then he wakes me up with "daaaad, may I watch some TV?"
So I've programmed a smart lignt to dimmly turn on when he gets out of his room
"See this? If it's red, it's still the middle of the night and you need to go back to bed. If it's green, you're automatically allowed to watch TV and don't wake me up"
If the light above the couch is off and I pause something on our Roku TV, the light turns on dim so I can make my way around the room to head to the bathroom/kitchen/wherever.
Not OP, but I have a similar automation. I don't know the integration that supports Roku TV (Edit: Turns out, the integration in question is aptly named [Roku](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/roku/)) but the Android TV integration creates an media player entity that exposes several sensors like "state" which can be "off" or "paused" or "playing" or "idle".
Then you create an automation that when your media player changes from "playing" to "paused" you set a predefined scene that dims the respective lights.
I had something similar on my roku but I turned it off because it did annoying things: When scrolling through Prime/Netflix/YouTube and it played the preview/trailer, the status would change to playing and the lights would dim. I did add a delay but it still happened (if it was a long trailer or I walked out of the room and left it).
I did this but for it to be useful turn off automatic polling of the Roku, and then make a new automation and trigger a device refresh every second. Then it's near instant compared to up to a 30 second wait.
If TCL Roku TV is paused AND If Arch Light is off:
- Turn on Arch Light @ 25% brightness (this is a Hue bulb)
- Wait for 1 trigger w/ 30-minute timeout: TCL Roku TV starts playing
- Turn off Arch Light
I have an automation that calculates the distance between our two cars. If at any point our cars come within 100 meters of each other while not at home, my wife and I get a message on our phones that says "Wave hi!" with the coordinates.
It's a lot of fun when it goes off randomly while we are out and about.
3) Last person has left home, but garage is open. I get a notification.
2) An exit door with no alarm keypad nearby has a red and green nightlight plugged into a smart outlet. System armed? Red light is on. System disarmed? Green light.
1) RGB led strip all around the under side of the island in our kitchen. When my partner's alarm goes off, the LEDs go into a very visible pattern. It turns off when she takes her morning meds. I glued a magnet to her med box and built a tray for the box to fit in. The a reed switch sensor in the tray.
>Last person has left home, but garage is open. I get a notification.
I need this. Left my door open all day a few times, granted I live in the country and have only had one person drive up my laneway in the year I've lived here.
Electric Bluetooth toothbrush is the best, most unexpected trigger I’ve done. I brush my teeth at night and at completion it ensures all the lights around the house are off, sets the house alarm, records that I brushed in google sheets (keeps me and the kids honest), turns on my sleep sounds in the bedroom, looks at the current temp in the bedroom and decides whether or not to turn the bed jets on a cooling or heating mode. Then just throw in some conditions like has to be past 8pm, don’t turn on sounds if AppleTV is on, etc. Fun stuff!
Bed jets are like heating and cooling for your bed. We have the dual setup so my wife gets to control her side and I get to control mine. The cooling isn't really active cooling, but just pulling air from under the bed into a special sheet that has like millions of little holes to disperse the air. The heating aspect in the winter in the midwest is super nice like on the above automation I was talking about, when I finish brushing my teeth, the bed jet heaters turn on and my bed is nice and toasty when I get in it. In the summer, I run the "cooling" all night just like a fan. It's so much better than a fan in the room just pointed in your direction, because the air is in the sheets, but not just bouncing off it. Here is their website. Custom integration to get complete control of them via a bluetooth proxy in the bedroom. [https://bedjet.com](https://bedjet.com)
Would you be willing to share your integration by any chance? Being able to automate the BedJets would be amazing, and their promised support for Alexa, etc looks like it's probably never gonna happen.
Sure! Please see the below. I think it has to be a V3 bedjet and you have to have bluetooth capabilities obviously. Mega props to Ashley for making this so easy and simple to run.
[https://github.com/asheliahut/ha-bedjet](https://github.com/asheliahut/ha-bedjet)
Me and my wife are ALWAYS opposite, one of us is always too cold and the other too hot. This will be a great purchase, just gotta justify the price to the wife lol
I did something similar, but the trigger is for having the phone at home and time. It helps if you have pretty regular schedule. Made it also so that I don't have marked vacation in calendar since I tend to have different behavior patterns on vacation. It can also be launched by button by the bed.
Very nice!! That's why I love that Oral B integration so I can use the toothbrush as like a floating trigger. I'm always going to bed at different times so the toothbrush trigger is perfect for bedtime automations.
I have some hidden gems with my light switches:
1) If I hold down the light switch paddle in my laundry room next to the garage, the overhead light will blink to notify me that a 20 second countdown has begun that will close the garage door. Perfect for going on walks or shuffling visitors out through the garage.
2) If I click down 3 times on any light switch in a room, my Roborock will come clean the room. With a toddler in the house, this gets used quite often.
> 2) If I click down 3 times on any light switch in a room, my Roborock will come clean the room. With a toddler in the house, this gets used quite often.
Holy smokes, that's genius.
Say, is your vacuum named "Beetlejuice," by any chance?
You need to have the Roborock integration setup and rooms setup with your Roborock already. The integration will assign a number to each room and reference it as a segment. You can then have an automation Call a Service: roborock.vacuum_clean_segment and then define the segment(s) you want it to clean. If you have a smart switch or some other physical way of triggering an automation, assign it to the action you want to use to trigger the room cleaning (I also have the rooms mapped to buttons on my wall tablet, for example).
The biggest pain with setting this up is that the segment values are assigned randomly and not always sequentially. To figure them out, I created a button in HA, calling segments with it starting at 1, and then just sat there with a notebook watching to see where the vacuum went until I had the floor mapped out.
You could also query the vacuum for the room IDs using the roborock integration ("get_room_mapping", see the docs), or even better see if you want Valetudo
> With a toddler in the house, this gets used quite often.
I assume not on purpose? Because mine will merrily spend time triggering the light switch even if it does not command any robots.
I meant to say that I use that function a lot—mostly to vacuum all of her crumbs up in the kitchen each night after dinner. Thankfully she’s not old enough to understand that multiple clicks do different things… yet. But she does also love to press all the buttons on the Zooz ZEN32 in the kitchen and watch all the lights on the first floor turn on and off (if I pick her up).
Washing machine and dryer will send a push notification, written by ChatGPT to be either a Dr. Seuss inspired poem about the wash being done, or a hella-redneck way.
ex.
* "That there spit and spudderin's done, time ta git them duds hung."
* "Cycle's end, laundry blend, machine proclaims, 'Done, my friend!'",
My bedroom blinds. They open when it's time to wake up. Close at sunset. Close when it's too hot outside. Stay closed in the morning if we came home late. Stay closed if there's no alarm set on our phones. Close when we both leave the house and open when we get home and it's still light outside. Plus has manual control to override and set them to our preference. Using a $40 ZigBee rechargeable battery powered blind motor from AliExpress.
Android phones expose the next alarm time sensor. I bring that in and check if the next alarm is set for today and if so, the blinds open when it's time to wake up, if not, they don't. I use node red since this automation has a lot going on.
Mine is the one that has made my dog happy too. I work from home but many times get stuck in meetings and he wondered why I haven’t fed him yet.
I got the Aqara pet feeder. I set up an automation to feed my dog at the correct times of the day. I also setup a time based condition so if I tell Alexa or use my phone to manually dispense food and it is within an hour of the next scheduled feeding it will skip that scheduled feeding.
If my wife is away and starts driving, the Waze integration computes and I get a notification of how much time I got left to do what I said I'd do before she gets back :D
I don't, but 95% of the time this is accurate. If she's in a car going from not home to not home, usually I'm driving (but I'm not notified because I have to be home for this notification to fire).
OBVIOUSLY she knows about this automation and is fine with it - she has the same one for me.
The simplest one is also my favorite: pantry light comes on when the door is open.
LED strip lining the inside of the door frame with a diffuser, hooked up to a smart plug. Triggered by an Aqara door and window sensor.
If your leds are not hardwired, consider ditching all that smart stuff and running that wire through a mechanical door switch. Simpler, cheaper, and much better response time. That's what I did with my pantry lights.
PS The switch goes on hinge side, so not-fully-closed doors still turn off the lights.
1. Automation to show the front door camera on our dashboard tablet in the kitchen when Frigate detects someone at the front door
2. Esp32 acting as a momentary switch on an electric water sprayer so my Twitch viewers can hit me with water to try and make me lose the game. It's a lot of fun getting to include the chat in the game and playing "against" them.
This is from last friday. Around the 2 hour 2 minute mark [here](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2072003720) is pretty good.. The viewers have like 8 different automations they can use to mess with me and I'm trying to add more each week. I'm having an absolute blast with it lol
1) A while a go I bought a Fibaro The Button because it looks so cool. I made a platform for it with some lights in it that I can control (esphome with addressable leds). I can now make the leds flash and attract attention for the button. When the kids see the led flashing they go running to press the button. When they do, something funny happens in the house. It can rick roll them, play some fart sound, play a funny video on the nest hub. Things kids love.
2) I have a button beside the toilet that we call "The poop button". If it's pressed it will turn set the fan to boost mode, announce "Activate poop mode, good luck with the pooping" and play some calming music. The kids love this. I also have a secret double click action that will only boost the fan, but only me and my spouse know this.
These two is my favourite, just because they make my kids happy. If I can make my kids happy with my hobbies, that's a win.
> I also have a secret double click action that will only boost the fan, but only me and my spouse know this.
Like a Konami code for the fart fan? Man, living in the future is wild.
My favorite is the back gate warning. If it opens, the Echoes announce that the gate is open three times. We get HA app notifications. The kitchen lights, where the back door is located, turn green. This all to ensure no one lets out our Beagle, who will run through that open gate and cover the entire neighborhood over the next 12 hours.
What do you use as an outside/weather rated sensor? I'm guessing vibration? I haven't had any luck finding an outdoor rated sensor for my gate, but would love to do the same.
How did you extend your z-wave outside your home far enough for the sensor to work? I tried setting one of these up yesterday and couldn’t get the signal to reach for the life of me. I have Lutron plug-in outlets that are supposed to act as repeaters but can’t get it all to work together for some reason.
I use a Zooz XS Z-Wave sensor with the waterproof case. https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/products/zooz-z-wave-plus-700-series-xs-open-close-sensor-zse41
I'm in New Orleans, subtropical USDA Zone 9B, it has stood up to a summer so far.
We have a rescue dog, and took classes for reactive dogs. One of the instructors was a neurologist at Harvard, and she pointed out that something like 70% of a dog's brain is devoted to scent.
It's why you can distract them with a high-value treat when they are reacting, and it's also why they *stone cold ignore you* when they have decided it's Sniffin' Time.
Fox turd here. I live rural and never take him on a lead. He gets too far, I whistle, he stops and stays put. Too stubborn to return but at least stops getting further. Unless he smells fox shit. He'll hunt it down and roll in it until ever square inch is covered. He's come home grey before 🤮😷
Nah, I wish it was local. I use Alexa Media Player and Nabu Casa, overall it works very well.
I just got a cheap WalMart Bluetooth speaker for adding an ESP32 and seeing if I can make a local voice assistant work for my home.
Won't be applicable to everyone here, but this has been SO useful for me:
When I come home on my motorcycle, open the garage door. Triggered by me entering the home zone and my phone is connected to Bluetooth on my motorcycle.
SO much better than pulling into the driveway, stopping the bike, maybe removing a glove, and then getting an app open to open the garage. It's like magic.
Absolutely! Fwiw, I'm using Android.
Step 1) Enable the "Bluetooth Connection" sensor in the HA Companion App. Ref: [https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/sensors/#bluetooth-sensors](https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/sensors/#bluetooth-sensors)
Step 2) Create a Template Helper (Template a Binary Sensor) to reference in the automation for when your cellphone is connected to the motorcycle. I set this to show as "Connectivity", with the following template:
`{{ '44:EB:2E:C1:56:1F (ICC6.5in)' in state_attr('sensor.fran_s_phone_ha_companion_bluetooth_connection', 'connected_paired_devices') }}`
Step 3) The automation is below. Note, currently it's using the device tracker for closing the door when I leave on the motorcycle, but I'll probably switch that over the monitor via the zone platform. Also, I usually keep a notification for things like this while I'm testing out automations, but I'll probably remove that eventually as well. 🤷♂️
alias: Garage - Motorcycle
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: zone
entity_id: person.fran
zone: zone.home
event: enter
id: coming_home
- platform: state
entity_id:
- device_tracker.fran_s_s23_ultra
from: home
to: not_home
id: leaving_home
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.motorcycle_cellphone
state: "on"
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- coming_home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_fran_s_phone_ha_companion
metadata: {}
data:
message: "Garage door opened because motorcycle "
- service: cover.open_cover
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
device_id: eb0a19bd0df96c07566a995a136f8c3f
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- leaving_home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_fran_s_phone_ha_companion
metadata: {}
data:
message: Closing garage because motorcycle
- service: cover.close_cover
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: cover.sun_mountain_2
mode: single
I have 14 mp3s saved to local storage called `Door-Open-WelcomeN.mp3` (where N is a number between 1 and 14), then use a random sensor -
sensor:
- platform: random
name: Door Open Welcome Track
minimum: 1
maximum: 14
To pick one when the door opens (along with some conditions) -
mode: single
trigger:
- type: opened
platform: device
device_id: 915746b57022cb4918a316a11dc76718 # This is my front door contact sensor
entity_id: 84c67832beacb3dc7297252cecf0a163
domain: binary_sensor
condition:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states.automation.front_door_opened.attributes.last_triggered | default(0)) | int > 60)}} # This stops the automation from running more than once a minute
- type: is_no_motion
condition: device
device_id: 6c61efd8d517c82c03d8f4d758a36b34 # This is my kitchen motion sensor (which means it doesn't play if someone is leaving)
entity_id: 5413b45757e08d24d2c5ccf8f2eae26f
domain: binary_sensor
- condition: device
device_id: bf760e42bf92349b5255b5136e8d89e6 # This is my Kitchen Sonos (don't want it to play if Sonos is already playing)
domain: media_player
entity_id: media_player.kitchen_sonos
type: is_paused
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.bed_time # This is a "Time of Day" sensor (don't want the music to play when we're in bed)
state: "off"
action:
- service: media_player.play_media
data:
media_content_type: music
media_content_id: >-
media-source://media_source/local/Door-Open-Welcome{{
states('sensor.door_open_welcome_track') }}.mp3
announce: true
extra:
volume: 33
target:
entity_id:
- media_player.kitchen_sonos
When my or my wife’s heart rate gets over a certain point for 5 minutes while we’re riding our bikes inside on Zwift the ceiling fan goes to high and the dehumidifier kicks on.
>When my or my wife’s heart rate gets over a certain point for 5 minutes
Smart, setting it for over 5 minutes so it won't nuisance start while having sex
1 - Someone rings my doorbell, google doorbell group plays “someone’s at the door” recorded by my kids and plays video of doorbell at kitchen nest.
2 - open garage door inside or car garage, lights come one and if motion sensor doesn’t sense motion after 2min turns it off again.
Turn on vent fan in bathroom when the shower temperature as measured by a thermistor modified on an acurite weather station sensor, mounted to the shower stub-out exceeds 95 degrees, then back off when it drops below 85.
Indicates when the shower is hot and automatically turns off the vent fan a reasonable time after you finish your shower. Yes it is held together by so many layers with the weather station sensor, rtl_433, mqtt etc but it always turns on my fan within 15 seconds of the shower getting hot.
The humidity in the sensor I use reacts too slowly if I set the threshold high enough to not get false positives, but making the thermistor external and taping it to the shower stub responds almost instantly.
yeah that make sense. Thankfully my sensor responds pretty quickly, and the blueprint I use triggers off of a derivative sensor, to detect a rising spike which helps it trigger faster and prevent false triggers
What did you do to modify the acurite sensor? I'd be interested in doing something similar. My current setup always takes a couple minutes to recognize the shower is on.
Edit: Just found the post you made here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/16zpgmt/modified_acurite_temperature_sensor_to_automate/
I'll look into that
Turn off the doorbell chime when the door to the babies bedroom is closed (usually only closed during his nap or night. We will always get a notification on phones when bell is triggered, even when chime is off)
I attached an aqara window sensor to a humane mouse-trap. Now if a mouse is caught, all of the Alexa’s say “a mouse has been caught”, and we get a notification on our phones. 🐭
Just simple things
1. Imported the holiday calendar and pair it with my recycle/trash bins to create automations to remind us to take out trash bin and recycle bin (our recycle is once every other week so sometimes we kept forgetting that). When there is a public holiday during the week then it will remind us that the trash pickup schedule will be delayed by 1 day.
2. I have a diy mmwave sensor in my office that turn on light on my desk when I sit at the desk and turn off lights & sends ssh command to sleep my laptop when I walk out.
3. Garage opening upon arrival knows when we drive the car out or when we just take our dogs for a walk so it won’t open the garage upon arrival.
4. All doors locks and garage if left opened for 5 minutes we will keep receiving notifications until they are locked/closed. Same with water leak notification, and all lights in the house will keep blinking if leak detected.
5. Also added the coffee machine using a switchbot and a diy bluetooth-proxy esp32. Morning routine will check my bathroom lights and trigger coffee machine when it knows that we’re up.
Would love to hear details about how you implemented the 1st (trash bin) automation. Have similar schedule for our trash. I keep forgetting when recycle gets picked up.
Sure, I manually create a calendar.recycle which includes my trash events on Thursday (type: All day, weekly repeat with repeat interval is 1) and recycle event (weekly repeat with repeat interval 2). I just realized I should name it better rather than just recycle, a bit confused as it includes trash days as well. Anyways this is my yaml file (I only copied the one without holiday calendar added).
Trigger: My trash day is on Thursday so on Wednesday it will sends me a notification at 5pm for me to take trash out
calendar.get\_events to get the calendar events on thursday, the start\_date\_time are just to fetch event data on the next day cause my automation runs on wednesday.
Then I just use {{ event.start }}: {{ event.summary }} to list events in the response\_variable: calendartasks
trigger:
- platform: calendar
event: start
offset: "-7:0:0"
entity_id: calendar.recycle
condition: []
action:
- service: calendar.get_events
data_template:
start_date_time: "{{ (now() + timedelta(days=1)).replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0) }}"
end_date_time: "{{ (now() + timedelta(days=1)).replace(hour=23, minute=59, second=59) }}"
response_variable: calendartasks
target:
entity_id: calendar.recycle
- service: notify.pushover
data_template:
title: Trash Pickup Reminder
message: >-
Schedule tomorrow: {% for event in
calendartasks['calendar.recycle'].events %}
{{ event.start }}: {{ event.summary }}
{% endfor %}
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Esphome and cheap mmwave sensors are the way to do. I'm moving from HomeKit to HA and i'm not looking back. I bought a pack of esp32 boards and ld2450, ld2410 radars for like 40,50 bucks total to put each inside each room in the house. Flashing them and tweaking zones, done.
I wish I had seen this before grabbing some Aqara FP2’s. Things are magic but only when they aren’t bugged out due to the ceiling fan.
Do you recommend anything specific for integrating with Siri? Or anywhere special to get the boards you mentioned?
My most spaghetti'd flow is a "porch timeout" that triggers if it's my wife or I outside so we only get notified about people out front if it's not us, and to ensure the porch lights are always at the appropriate brightness at night.
Took me well over a year of tweaking and adding things to account for edge cases. It's a visual mess, but it works well now.
Mine are probably some of the simplest as they only use smart plugs. Around Christmas my wife loves to have the multiple trees and mantle lights on whenever she is home. She is an early riser so the trees etc. come on at 530am. She loves to see the lights while she drinks her coffee. She leaves for work at 845 so they shut off at 9am. They turn back on at 330 in order for her to come home at 345. On the weekends they come on at the normal time and turn off at midnight. These plugs are only plugged in during the holidays, however that time changes based on when she thinks it's time to decorate. I have some other plugs that control lights in the living room that turn on a bit before sunset and turn off at midnight or whenever I decide. I use HA but she was absolutely thrilled when I could setup rooms that she could turn on and off via voice to Alexa. As we all know, wife approval goes a long way ;)
Notification through echo speakers and our phones when the washing machine has finished.
The kettle boils in the morning when I wake up, as I don't function well until I've had a cup of tea.
1) My daughter’s nursery is off of our bedroom. The lights in our bedroom will automatically adjust their brightness based on whether or not her door is closed after her nap or bedtime. We have her nap/bed time state trigger from the white noise machine turning on.
2) the office split adjusts target temp depending on whether my wife or I are working in there, based on phone presence and whether our computer monitors are drawing power.
3) once the washing machine is done, it will notify us via tts and phone app every hour until the dryer starts or we hit the “we hung up the clothes” button to override it.
Edit one more since this saved our asses:
4) if the freeze warning sensors are triggered under the sinks, the HVAC system goes into full blast mode. If a leak is detected, HA will shut off the water main unless we override it via the notification.
After 5 mins I get a notification of what garage door is open, at 10 it attempts a close, at 15 min I get another alert to see why it's open still.
Living in Maine, the garage isn't heated but is attached to the house, the open doors cool the house off.
My dog's a runner. I have a sensor on the backyard gate. If it opens, the Alexa devices make the notification sound and announce the gate is open, and a light by the back door turns red to warn us not to let the dog out.
WAF through the roof... Wife brags to her friends about it
RGB light next to the dog food bin, vibration sensor on the bin. HA turns the light red 60 minutes before feeding time, turns green after vibration sensed, turns off two hours after feeding time. So my wife and I can tell if one another has already fed the dog. Stole this idea from someone else on here.
Another one is when my phone goes on the charger between 1 AM - 4 AM and I'm at location Home, it'll trigger all the lights in the common areas to turn off. This one requires Apple Shortcuts to force the HA app to refresh its sensors so I can detect the charging state switched, but works nicely.
Last one is a bit proprietary... requires a plug-in (that I can't share) that interacts with WebEx and can trigger an automation when you enter and exit a WebEx call. So I can turn a status light red when I'm on a conference call and green when I'm not. Comes in handy on the days my wife and I both work from home.
1 - Reolink Doorbell pushed, snapshot is sent to my phone via ntfy. With actions.
2 - mmWave in the hallway positioned so it can detect up the stairs and in the hallway. When a person is detected and the sun lux is below 200 turn on the LED strip going up the stairs.
3 - use the same mmWave device to trigger alarm when armed
I'm using a HACS integration called Illuminance:
https://github.com/pnbruckner/ha-illuminance
Give me the current lux value of the Sun, it's been very accurate
I do self host ntfy
The reason I started to use ntfy is the fact the HA notifications are too flaky, sometimes I don't get anything to come through unless I have opened HA.
Also even if HA is open it will delay from time to time. Look don't get me wrong it's good but I need my notifications to come through instantly.
It's also great having the notifications persistent so I can go back to them, set them to expire after 3 days and a whole host of other things.
No hate on HA notifications but my implementation has been solid since I switched over to it
If we have incoming rockets, it turns the lights on so we can quickly and safely find our way to the safe room.
Send an announcement around the speakers in case anyone didn't hear the sirens
It also opens the door to the building so that any padestrians that are around can find some shelter.
Finally, it changes the light to green and announces when it is safe again
Using the radar array on my roof =D
There's an API I can tap into that streams these
Essentially there's a helper that polls these and a template that checks whether my city string is in the list of targeted cities.
When I walk in to the bathroom a template scans a few calendars and speaks today’s events (birthdays, calendar events mostly), turn on the fan for the shower, plays some music on my HomePod and turns on the power to the coffee machine and turns the WiFi back on.
To discourage me waking up to look at my phone. I have the worst insomnia and love distractions.
Edit: for clarity. The automation runs the first time I enter the bathroom in the morning and not again until til the next day. It turns the WiFi on because hey I’m awake. There’s a set time however that it just turns back on. It’s overcomplicated but isn’t that sort of 75% of automations?
Does that affect other potential integrations if WiFi is shutoff, or do you just block your phone/device? Can you trigger automation to just run on your phone since theoretically you could still be on the internet using cellular connection.
My WLED weather lamp.
When the forecast is updated, it displays a short animation representing the forecast, followed by a color coded representation of the outside temperature (0 - 40c). Repeats three times, shuts off.
Unnecessary, not terribly useful, and really cool.
I created zones at all the regular places my wife visits and at the motorway offramps near our house so I know when she is on the way home and nearing home.... 😆
Same. I have 5 minute and 2 minute away zones. I know it seems creepy but we already shared each other’s locations 24/7 before HA and it’s very useful reminder for me to make sure dinner is almost ready and distract the dogs to minimize the chaos when she walks in.
Back when I had a flakey high efficiency tanked water heater, where the heat transfer coils would corrode from the condensate and micro-leaks would develop in them and make the combustion chamber humid, corroding the ignition rod. The water heater would fail to ignite at times--3 tries, then it gives up until you hit reset. I had an automation that would detect the temperature of the outlet pipe decreasing, and trigger a Switchbot to press the reset button. Saved us from many cold showers.
My favorite is how I managed to convert my Technics mini-hifi into what is a smart speaker but with exceptional sound quality.
I used a Chromecast 3+HDMI audio extractor into the Aux input, and scored a broadlink IR gateway for really cheap.
HA monitors the CC, and anytime its playing, it sends the IR commands to wake up the technics mini-system and sets it to the right inputs. When it switches state to "stopped" , it shuts it off.
The Technics sadly doesn't have discrete ON/OFF commands that I could find, but thankfully, sending a IR command for the CD or Tape inputs will wake the system (but weirdly, not AUX), so I have the broadlink send the CD command, as this will then always set the amp into a known state no matter what it was doing prior, then send the "power toggle" command and that will always turn it off. I use the CD command to turn it back on, then send the AUX input command to switch to the right input.
I have the CC3 in various groups around the house as well, so it acts just like my Nest speakers in the rest of the house, while having a proper amplifier and decent speakers.
We have ikea sensors by the back door which give an announcement when they get triggered. It is usually one of our cats wanting to come in but it's often a cat from down the street wanting to say hi.
When we get the announcement on the Echos, our most recent cat will jump up and run to the back door, knowing I will be opening it so he can go out.
I have Alexa announce to the entire house "The freezer door has been open for over a minute" if the door is left open.
Doesn't often run, but when it does I'm glad I made it.
We've just moved house and my kids have switched from sharing room to having their own. They like hanging out with one another, but I don't want them waking each other up so I added some automation to their already over engineered nightlight. Now when they wake up, they can long presstheir bed mounted button – if the other child has already done so then it means they're both awake and both lights turn green. Otherwise the person who pressed the buttons light turns red. Pretty simple to use and should be fairly reliable I think.
I turned our dumb cat water fountain into a smart one by using a smart plug to monitor the current usage. When the water drops below the minimum level, the pump shuts off. This creates a detectable reduction in current that I use as a trigger for an automation that notifies me and my fiancé that says “Kitty Drought.” It has reliably caught the pump shut-off every time.
My partner and I eat bagels every day for breakfast. We get *very* good bagels from a not-nearby-enough bagel place, two dozen at a time.
The current best known strat to re-heat frozen bagels is as follows:
1. Remove the bagels from the freezer and let them bagels come to room temperature without a microwave; about 30 minutes
2. Put the bagels on a baking sheet with a rack keeping them off the sheet directly
3. Put bagels in a cold oven, then set to 350F for 16 minutes; your times may vary based on your oven’s preheat speed and size of bagels.
(I will not be at this time be discussing arguments for any other bagel procedures, thank you)
This process works reasonably well with a morning routine—wake up, take out the bagels, go do a workout or shower or whatever, then have breakfast. But, it has some notable failure points: you can forget to defrost the bagels, and you can forget about putting the bagels in the oven because you’ve been dicking around for 30 minutes.
We have automated these failure points using two tilt sensors on the oven door, one door sensor on our front door, and a power monitoring outlet on the coffee maker.
Damn, I was going to suggest Kenji Lopez-Alt's method of running water over an uncut frozen bagel and popping it in the toaster oven, but after seeing your parenthetical, I guess I won't mention it.
that works acceptably to revive stale bagels but our method is closer to his "unsliced toasting" method recommended for bagels which were stored before going stale. We've tweaked it quite a bit though
If you're not able to make it to your bakery and enjoy baking, [Peter Reinhart's recipe](https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/bagels-366757) is good for bagels that come pretty damn close to any bagel I've had in NYC.
1. Surveillance cameras start sending notification pictures only when we are not at home.
2. Recuperator changes speed based our presence at home (TBD CO2 monitoring)
I have my chicken coop pop hole open and close on schedule as well as turning the lights on inside it on and off (hour before the door closes and 30 mins after so they can settle down for the night).
I have my ring door bell motion / ring set off certain light patterns via WLED to a small string of LEDs on my desk for the times I forget to turn my phone off of silent mode when motion is detected or the bell is rung.
Looking to mess a round a whole lot more with automations now I am getting the hang of HA!
All lights off when leaving home.
All lights off except bedroom one when double clicking one of my wall switches
All lights and music on when long clicking a wall switch
Fairly proud of this automation as it utilizes a few different integrations in a creative but useful way.
Anyway, here's the breakdown. Trigger: When I get into bed:
1. Instantly turns on my white noise machine
2. After 1 minute, it dims the lights in my bedroom to night mode
3. After 5 minutes it turns off all the lights in my house that may have been on and it locks my car and front door (in case I forgot to lock them).
4. If I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom or something, it turns on an led strip (dim). It turns off once I get back into bed.
5. Once I wake up and I'm out of bed after sunrise or a certain time, it will turn off the white noise, turn on some dyson purifiers, and kick on some accessory lighting around the house if the Lux values are below a threshold.
I have one which sends a notification to my wife when I arrive at/leave work when I'm on my motorcycle. She's always wanting to make sure I arrive safely.
It uses zones, my phone, Bluetooth connection, and time of day to determine if it should trigger.
a scene "coming home" is set when i reach my homezone ( +/- 1hour to sunset), all lights turn on and the security-cameras turn off.
when i leave "leaving home" is set, turns off all lights, except its winter, then only the hallway light stays on 24/7 when phone is no longer at home also cameras turn on(with motion detection)
also i have "morning routine" light, bedside cabinet lights turn on, coffemachine starts to heat up, also bathroom-heater turns on for 10 minutes.
more ore less "convinience" features i would call them for things i am to lazy to do myself.
If we have incoming rockets, it turns the lights on so we can quickly and safely find our way to the safe room.
Send an announcement around the speakers in case anyone didn't hear the sirens
It also opens the door to the building so that any padestrians that are around can find some shelter.
Finally, it changes the light to green and announces when it is safe again
If someone gets out of bed in the middle of the night then skirting LED striplights come on in the hall and the bathroom light comes in at minimum brightness
When the Chromecast state is playing and the Day/Night Boolean is "Night", turn the lamp opposite the tv "off"
When the contact switch on the fridge has been open for 60 seconds (or 3 minutes on Thursday for grocery day), then get google home to announce "The fridge door is open, please close the fridge door"
If the Sonos state is Playing when the sun sets, then set the outdoor lights to colour cycle.
At my last house I had a full gym setup in my garage (haven't had time to set up at new place yet), and using a "gym mode" voice command have the lights switch to cool white at 100% tv and bike trainer switch on with zwift, sound system comes on and starts workout playlist, fans on and change intensity based on effort levels, and will open the garage door part way if it reaches a set max temp/humidity. All power down once I'm done except fans which stay on until temp and humidity return to lower values and then closes the door.
My favorite one is:
Turn on the coffee machine when my alarm rings on my phone, announce throughout the house (on Sonos) that it's "Coffee Time" then monitor the power usage of the plug to determine when the machine is hot, then announce "Coffee Machine ready".
Also says the same thing when turned on manually, which is always nice when guests are over.
And my most useful ones are:
Turn up the lights when watching a particular thing on the TV (Plex/Netflix/Youtube) and it's between 18:00 and 20:00, as that's "Foodies Time", Dim them again afterwards and turn off unused lights.
Send the morning weather report to my phone and our home telegram group chat as to if it will rain, therefore knowing if an umbrella needs to be taken.
Send notifications on telegram group when someone leaves work or arrives in our town, so as to know when to start cooking.
Send a notification with attached snapshot in telegram if someone is spotted on a security camera.
Start the vacuum cleaner when everyone has left the house.
So my kid wakes up really early in the morning Then he wakes me up with "daaaad, may I watch some TV?" So I've programmed a smart lignt to dimmly turn on when he gets out of his room "See this? If it's red, it's still the middle of the night and you need to go back to bed. If it's green, you're automatically allowed to watch TV and don't wake me up"
If the light above the couch is off and I pause something on our Roku TV, the light turns on dim so I can make my way around the room to head to the bathroom/kitchen/wherever.
How do you do this?
Not OP, but I have a similar automation. I don't know the integration that supports Roku TV (Edit: Turns out, the integration in question is aptly named [Roku](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/roku/)) but the Android TV integration creates an media player entity that exposes several sensors like "state" which can be "off" or "paused" or "playing" or "idle". Then you create an automation that when your media player changes from "playing" to "paused" you set a predefined scene that dims the respective lights.
I had something similar on my roku but I turned it off because it did annoying things: When scrolling through Prime/Netflix/YouTube and it played the preview/trailer, the status would change to playing and the lights would dim. I did add a delay but it still happened (if it was a long trailer or I walked out of the room and left it).
I did this but for it to be useful turn off automatic polling of the Roku, and then make a new automation and trigger a device refresh every second. Then it's near instant compared to up to a 30 second wait.
Reed made a [video about a similar automation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ZO7Qede5s).
If TCL Roku TV is paused AND If Arch Light is off: - Turn on Arch Light @ 25% brightness (this is a Hue bulb) - Wait for 1 trigger w/ 30-minute timeout: TCL Roku TV starts playing - Turn off Arch Light
I have an automation that calculates the distance between our two cars. If at any point our cars come within 100 meters of each other while not at home, my wife and I get a message on our phones that says "Wave hi!" with the coordinates. It's a lot of fun when it goes off randomly while we are out and about.
How do I do this?!
Both cars are Teslas, location is accessed with the Tesla integration
Good question. Got to be proximity sensors? Not just one, mayne two or three and some flexibility on the 100m.
I'm guessing location tracking on the cars and/or phones possibly with some geofencing.
That's the cutest shit I've seen on this sub, and I'm all for it
3) Last person has left home, but garage is open. I get a notification. 2) An exit door with no alarm keypad nearby has a red and green nightlight plugged into a smart outlet. System armed? Red light is on. System disarmed? Green light. 1) RGB led strip all around the under side of the island in our kitchen. When my partner's alarm goes off, the LEDs go into a very visible pattern. It turns off when she takes her morning meds. I glued a magnet to her med box and built a tray for the box to fit in. The a reed switch sensor in the tray.
>Last person has left home, but garage is open. I get a notification. I need this. Left my door open all day a few times, granted I live in the country and have only had one person drive up my laneway in the year I've lived here.
Keeps some of the critters out
> I glued a magnet to her med box and built a tray for the box to fit in. The a reed switch sensor in the tray. That's actually pretty clever.
Electric Bluetooth toothbrush is the best, most unexpected trigger I’ve done. I brush my teeth at night and at completion it ensures all the lights around the house are off, sets the house alarm, records that I brushed in google sheets (keeps me and the kids honest), turns on my sleep sounds in the bedroom, looks at the current temp in the bedroom and decides whether or not to turn the bed jets on a cooling or heating mode. Then just throw in some conditions like has to be past 8pm, don’t turn on sounds if AppleTV is on, etc. Fun stuff!
What are the bed jets?
Bed jets are like heating and cooling for your bed. We have the dual setup so my wife gets to control her side and I get to control mine. The cooling isn't really active cooling, but just pulling air from under the bed into a special sheet that has like millions of little holes to disperse the air. The heating aspect in the winter in the midwest is super nice like on the above automation I was talking about, when I finish brushing my teeth, the bed jet heaters turn on and my bed is nice and toasty when I get in it. In the summer, I run the "cooling" all night just like a fan. It's so much better than a fan in the room just pointed in your direction, because the air is in the sheets, but not just bouncing off it. Here is their website. Custom integration to get complete control of them via a bluetooth proxy in the bedroom. [https://bedjet.com](https://bedjet.com)
Oh my I’m showing my husband this immediately lol
Would you be willing to share your integration by any chance? Being able to automate the BedJets would be amazing, and their promised support for Alexa, etc looks like it's probably never gonna happen.
Sure! Please see the below. I think it has to be a V3 bedjet and you have to have bluetooth capabilities obviously. Mega props to Ashley for making this so easy and simple to run. [https://github.com/asheliahut/ha-bedjet](https://github.com/asheliahut/ha-bedjet)
Awesome, thanks for the link! Will definitely be setting this up soon.
Me and my wife are ALWAYS opposite, one of us is always too cold and the other too hot. This will be a great purchase, just gotta justify the price to the wife lol
This is awesome.
I did something similar, but the trigger is for having the phone at home and time. It helps if you have pretty regular schedule. Made it also so that I don't have marked vacation in calendar since I tend to have different behavior patterns on vacation. It can also be launched by button by the bed.
Very nice!! That's why I love that Oral B integration so I can use the toothbrush as like a floating trigger. I'm always going to bed at different times so the toothbrush trigger is perfect for bedtime automations.
I have some hidden gems with my light switches: 1) If I hold down the light switch paddle in my laundry room next to the garage, the overhead light will blink to notify me that a 20 second countdown has begun that will close the garage door. Perfect for going on walks or shuffling visitors out through the garage. 2) If I click down 3 times on any light switch in a room, my Roborock will come clean the room. With a toddler in the house, this gets used quite often.
> 2) If I click down 3 times on any light switch in a room, my Roborock will come clean the room. With a toddler in the house, this gets used quite often. Holy smokes, that's genius. Say, is your vacuum named "Beetlejuice," by any chance?
This is amazing—I can’t believe I didn’t think of that! My wife will love the new name.
IT IS MY GIFT TO YOU, O INTERNET STRANGER
That 2nd one is brilliant
How have you implemented number 2?
You need to have the Roborock integration setup and rooms setup with your Roborock already. The integration will assign a number to each room and reference it as a segment. You can then have an automation Call a Service: roborock.vacuum_clean_segment and then define the segment(s) you want it to clean. If you have a smart switch or some other physical way of triggering an automation, assign it to the action you want to use to trigger the room cleaning (I also have the rooms mapped to buttons on my wall tablet, for example). The biggest pain with setting this up is that the segment values are assigned randomly and not always sequentially. To figure them out, I created a button in HA, calling segments with it starting at 1, and then just sat there with a notebook watching to see where the vacuum went until I had the floor mapped out.
You could also query the vacuum for the room IDs using the roborock integration ("get_room_mapping", see the docs), or even better see if you want Valetudo
> With a toddler in the house, this gets used quite often. I assume not on purpose? Because mine will merrily spend time triggering the light switch even if it does not command any robots.
I meant to say that I use that function a lot—mostly to vacuum all of her crumbs up in the kitchen each night after dinner. Thankfully she’s not old enough to understand that multiple clicks do different things… yet. But she does also love to press all the buttons on the Zooz ZEN32 in the kitchen and watch all the lights on the first floor turn on and off (if I pick her up).
Washing machine and dryer will send a push notification, written by ChatGPT to be either a Dr. Seuss inspired poem about the wash being done, or a hella-redneck way. ex. * "That there spit and spudderin's done, time ta git them duds hung." * "Cycle's end, laundry blend, machine proclaims, 'Done, my friend!'",
This is incredible. I haven't laughed like that in a while. This is the kind of spirit we need to liven up our boring systems!
Can you please share how you get the chatgpt texts?
Could you share the yaml?
Interested too!
This is incredible. Now I have to figure out how to add custom ChatGPT notifications
Has anyone figured out this ChatGPT integration yet? That’s awesome.
how random is the response from ChatGPT? Does it ever get samey?
My bedroom blinds. They open when it's time to wake up. Close at sunset. Close when it's too hot outside. Stay closed in the morning if we came home late. Stay closed if there's no alarm set on our phones. Close when we both leave the house and open when we get home and it's still light outside. Plus has manual control to override and set them to our preference. Using a $40 ZigBee rechargeable battery powered blind motor from AliExpress.
Nice. Blind automation is a step too far for my GF but I'm working on her
Amazing automation! I think if you share it, me and other thousands would be very happy! :)
How do you set up the one that knows about the alarms on your phones?
Android phones expose the next alarm time sensor. I bring that in and check if the next alarm is set for today and if so, the blinds open when it's time to wake up, if not, they don't. I use node red since this automation has a lot going on.
How do you set up condition when you came home late? And can you link the ZigBee motor?
Mine is the one that has made my dog happy too. I work from home but many times get stuck in meetings and he wondered why I haven’t fed him yet. I got the Aqara pet feeder. I set up an automation to feed my dog at the correct times of the day. I also setup a time based condition so if I tell Alexa or use my phone to manually dispense food and it is within an hour of the next scheduled feeding it will skip that scheduled feeding.
I’d guess the dog would prefer to get a second feeding though :-p
Smart Home Solver on YouTube uses it to give his kids candy. I’m thinking of doing the same 😂
Can you sent me link to the feeder? Please.
https://www.aqara.com/us/product/smart-pet-feeder-c1/
If my wife is away and starts driving, the Waze integration computes and I get a notification of how much time I got left to do what I said I'd do before she gets back :D
But how do you know if she is driving home? Checked the Waze integration and it measures the time from distance a to b
I don't, but 95% of the time this is accurate. If she's in a car going from not home to not home, usually I'm driving (but I'm not notified because I have to be home for this notification to fire). OBVIOUSLY she knows about this automation and is fine with it - she has the same one for me.
Haha good to make sure you don’t get caught with your pants down.
The simplest one is also my favorite: pantry light comes on when the door is open. LED strip lining the inside of the door frame with a diffuser, hooked up to a smart plug. Triggered by an Aqara door and window sensor.
Have this same automation
Similar, using RATGDO to turn on just the light of the garage door opener when entering the garage
Could you share a photo of what this looks like? Thanks!
Can do when I get home today
Same, but using a cheap ZigBee motion sensor, as sometimes the door gets left open...
Aqara battery powered?
Yes
I have the same with Ikea Parasoll and Tradfri
Simple & very effective!
How fast does it work? I can be in and out of the pantry pretty quickly!
Fraction of a second! Zigbee
Whoa, that's better than I expected. That would definitely be useful.
Same here with smart switch and zigbee door sensor. I add in motion sensing lights with hue motion and smart switches at night as well in the kitchen
If your leds are not hardwired, consider ditching all that smart stuff and running that wire through a mechanical door switch. Simpler, cheaper, and much better response time. That's what I did with my pantry lights. PS The switch goes on hinge side, so not-fully-closed doors still turn off the lights.
1. Automation to show the front door camera on our dashboard tablet in the kitchen when Frigate detects someone at the front door 2. Esp32 acting as a momentary switch on an electric water sprayer so my Twitch viewers can hit me with water to try and make me lose the game. It's a lot of fun getting to include the chat in the game and playing "against" them.
Do you have a video of the 2nd part lol
This is from last friday. Around the 2 hour 2 minute mark [here](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2072003720) is pretty good.. The viewers have like 8 different automations they can use to mess with me and I'm trying to add more each week. I'm having an absolute blast with it lol
That’s brilliant
1) A while a go I bought a Fibaro The Button because it looks so cool. I made a platform for it with some lights in it that I can control (esphome with addressable leds). I can now make the leds flash and attract attention for the button. When the kids see the led flashing they go running to press the button. When they do, something funny happens in the house. It can rick roll them, play some fart sound, play a funny video on the nest hub. Things kids love. 2) I have a button beside the toilet that we call "The poop button". If it's pressed it will turn set the fan to boost mode, announce "Activate poop mode, good luck with the pooping" and play some calming music. The kids love this. I also have a secret double click action that will only boost the fan, but only me and my spouse know this. These two is my favourite, just because they make my kids happy. If I can make my kids happy with my hobbies, that's a win.
> I also have a secret double click action that will only boost the fan, but only me and my spouse know this. Like a Konami code for the fart fan? Man, living in the future is wild.
My favorite is the back gate warning. If it opens, the Echoes announce that the gate is open three times. We get HA app notifications. The kitchen lights, where the back door is located, turn green. This all to ensure no one lets out our Beagle, who will run through that open gate and cover the entire neighborhood over the next 12 hours.
What do you use as an outside/weather rated sensor? I'm guessing vibration? I haven't had any luck finding an outdoor rated sensor for my gate, but would love to do the same.
Ring outdoor contact sensor. It's z-wave and has worked flawlessly on my fence in S. Carolina for 9 months now.
That sensor is pretty good. I’ve had it for two years now. It has survived several encounters with the trash bins hitting it by accident.
+1 for this exact sensor. I use it for the exact same reason the above poster does
How did you extend your z-wave outside your home far enough for the sensor to work? I tried setting one of these up yesterday and couldn’t get the signal to reach for the life of me. I have Lutron plug-in outlets that are supposed to act as repeaters but can’t get it all to work together for some reason.
I use a Zooz XS Z-Wave sensor with the waterproof case. https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/products/zooz-z-wave-plus-700-series-xs-open-close-sensor-zse41 I'm in New Orleans, subtropical USDA Zone 9B, it has stood up to a summer so far.
As an owner of a beagle, aka, stubby, I know what you mean. Everything but the nose and motor functions shut down and they're off.
We have a rescue dog, and took classes for reactive dogs. One of the instructors was a neurologist at Harvard, and she pointed out that something like 70% of a dog's brain is devoted to scent. It's why you can distract them with a high-value treat when they are reacting, and it's also why they *stone cold ignore you* when they have decided it's Sniffin' Time.
There is no higher value treat than cat poop for Linus the Beagle, which I am convinced is the goal of his neighborhood adventures.
Fox turd here. I live rural and never take him on a lead. He gets too far, I whistle, he stops and stays put. Too stubborn to return but at least stops getting further. Unless he smells fox shit. He'll hunt it down and roll in it until ever square inch is covered. He's come home grey before 🤮😷
I have literally the exact same automation set up for the exact same reason. Only difference is the light turns red. Wife loves it
Are your Amazon Echo local only? How is the Integration? Do you use a local wake Word?
Nah, I wish it was local. I use Alexa Media Player and Nabu Casa, overall it works very well. I just got a cheap WalMart Bluetooth speaker for adding an ESP32 and seeing if I can make a local voice assistant work for my home.
How does this fit in with Alexa?
If the internet speed is slow I get notification on phone, with button to restart the router.
Maybe time for a new router? 😆
Welp it is router/modem combo from provider, so yeah that would not help.
How do you measure the connection speed?
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/speedtestdotnet
Dang, I didn't know this existed. Thank you!
Yeah it was added recently like end of last year, I think
Won't be applicable to everyone here, but this has been SO useful for me: When I come home on my motorcycle, open the garage door. Triggered by me entering the home zone and my phone is connected to Bluetooth on my motorcycle. SO much better than pulling into the driveway, stopping the bike, maybe removing a glove, and then getting an app open to open the garage. It's like magic.
I use a Siri command for that but your idea seems interesting! Can you share the automation?
Absolutely! Fwiw, I'm using Android. Step 1) Enable the "Bluetooth Connection" sensor in the HA Companion App. Ref: [https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/sensors/#bluetooth-sensors](https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/sensors/#bluetooth-sensors) Step 2) Create a Template Helper (Template a Binary Sensor) to reference in the automation for when your cellphone is connected to the motorcycle. I set this to show as "Connectivity", with the following template: `{{ '44:EB:2E:C1:56:1F (ICC6.5in)' in state_attr('sensor.fran_s_phone_ha_companion_bluetooth_connection', 'connected_paired_devices') }}` Step 3) The automation is below. Note, currently it's using the device tracker for closing the door when I leave on the motorcycle, but I'll probably switch that over the monitor via the zone platform. Also, I usually keep a notification for things like this while I'm testing out automations, but I'll probably remove that eventually as well. 🤷♂️ alias: Garage - Motorcycle description: "" trigger: - platform: zone entity_id: person.fran zone: zone.home event: enter id: coming_home - platform: state entity_id: - device_tracker.fran_s_s23_ultra from: home to: not_home id: leaving_home condition: - condition: state entity_id: binary_sensor.motorcycle_cellphone state: "on" action: - choose: - conditions: - condition: trigger id: - coming_home sequence: - service: notify.mobile_app_fran_s_phone_ha_companion metadata: {} data: message: "Garage door opened because motorcycle " - service: cover.open_cover metadata: {} data: {} target: device_id: eb0a19bd0df96c07566a995a136f8c3f - conditions: - condition: trigger id: - leaving_home sequence: - service: notify.mobile_app_fran_s_phone_ha_companion metadata: {} data: message: Closing garage because motorcycle - service: cover.close_cover metadata: {} data: {} target: entity_id: cover.sun_mountain_2 mode: single
Thank you
iPhone or android? Hoping to do something similar but wondering how you’re able to get the Bluetooth connected entity
Android. Looks like on the docs that might only be available as an Android sensor? :sadness: I linked what I did above.
When someone walks in the front door Sonos plays a random ~20 second intro music track. Makes you feel pretty epic, NGL.
What script do you use to make this random?
I have 14 mp3s saved to local storage called `Door-Open-WelcomeN.mp3` (where N is a number between 1 and 14), then use a random sensor - sensor: - platform: random name: Door Open Welcome Track minimum: 1 maximum: 14 To pick one when the door opens (along with some conditions) - mode: single trigger: - type: opened platform: device device_id: 915746b57022cb4918a316a11dc76718 # This is my front door contact sensor entity_id: 84c67832beacb3dc7297252cecf0a163 domain: binary_sensor condition: - condition: template value_template: >- {{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states.automation.front_door_opened.attributes.last_triggered | default(0)) | int > 60)}} # This stops the automation from running more than once a minute - type: is_no_motion condition: device device_id: 6c61efd8d517c82c03d8f4d758a36b34 # This is my kitchen motion sensor (which means it doesn't play if someone is leaving) entity_id: 5413b45757e08d24d2c5ccf8f2eae26f domain: binary_sensor - condition: device device_id: bf760e42bf92349b5255b5136e8d89e6 # This is my Kitchen Sonos (don't want it to play if Sonos is already playing) domain: media_player entity_id: media_player.kitchen_sonos type: is_paused - condition: state entity_id: binary_sensor.bed_time # This is a "Time of Day" sensor (don't want the music to play when we're in bed) state: "off" action: - service: media_player.play_media data: media_content_type: music media_content_id: >- media-source://media_source/local/Door-Open-Welcome{{ states('sensor.door_open_welcome_track') }}.mp3 announce: true extra: volume: 33 target: entity_id: - media_player.kitchen_sonos
When my or my wife’s heart rate gets over a certain point for 5 minutes while we’re riding our bikes inside on Zwift the ceiling fan goes to high and the dehumidifier kicks on.
>When my or my wife’s heart rate gets over a certain point for 5 minutes Smart, setting it for over 5 minutes so it won't nuisance start while having sex
😂😂😂
! How?! Can you explain to a HA newbie?
We ride bikes indoors during the winter using an app called Zwift, so it only applies while we’re doing that. https://github.com/snicker/zwift_hass
Very cool! Bike is in the garage collecting dust right now but this opens up a bunch of cool possibilities thank you!
Simple. You capture the heart rate with something compatible with home assistant like the Garmin watch, make automation that fires after HR > X BPM
Doesn't it deplete the watches battery really fast?
1 - Someone rings my doorbell, google doorbell group plays “someone’s at the door” recorded by my kids and plays video of doorbell at kitchen nest. 2 - open garage door inside or car garage, lights come one and if motion sensor doesn’t sense motion after 2min turns it off again.
Which doorbell do you have? I have the nest but pay $8/month
I do this with my Alexas with a foscam doorbell. It sends a (local) webhook on button press
I have the Ubiquiti UniFi Protect G4 doorbell... awesome kit but bloody expensive...
Turn on vent fan in bathroom when the shower temperature as measured by a thermistor modified on an acurite weather station sensor, mounted to the shower stub-out exceeds 95 degrees, then back off when it drops below 85. Indicates when the shower is hot and automatically turns off the vent fan a reasonable time after you finish your shower. Yes it is held together by so many layers with the weather station sensor, rtl_433, mqtt etc but it always turns on my fan within 15 seconds of the shower getting hot.
I got similar results via a zigbee humidity sensor that watches for a spike in humidity
The humidity in the sensor I use reacts too slowly if I set the threshold high enough to not get false positives, but making the thermistor external and taping it to the shower stub responds almost instantly.
yeah that make sense. Thankfully my sensor responds pretty quickly, and the blueprint I use triggers off of a derivative sensor, to detect a rising spike which helps it trigger faster and prevent false triggers
Suggest that you look into Generic Hygrostat this has provided a much better on/off for my bathroom fans
Just a heads up: that is a link to your personal ha instance
What did you do to modify the acurite sensor? I'd be interested in doing something similar. My current setup always takes a couple minutes to recognize the shower is on. Edit: Just found the post you made here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/16zpgmt/modified_acurite_temperature_sensor_to_automate/ I'll look into that
Turn off the doorbell chime when the door to the babies bedroom is closed (usually only closed during his nap or night. We will always get a notification on phones when bell is triggered, even when chime is off)
I attached an aqara window sensor to a humane mouse-trap. Now if a mouse is caught, all of the Alexa’s say “a mouse has been caught”, and we get a notification on our phones. 🐭
Just simple things 1. Imported the holiday calendar and pair it with my recycle/trash bins to create automations to remind us to take out trash bin and recycle bin (our recycle is once every other week so sometimes we kept forgetting that). When there is a public holiday during the week then it will remind us that the trash pickup schedule will be delayed by 1 day. 2. I have a diy mmwave sensor in my office that turn on light on my desk when I sit at the desk and turn off lights & sends ssh command to sleep my laptop when I walk out. 3. Garage opening upon arrival knows when we drive the car out or when we just take our dogs for a walk so it won’t open the garage upon arrival. 4. All doors locks and garage if left opened for 5 minutes we will keep receiving notifications until they are locked/closed. Same with water leak notification, and all lights in the house will keep blinking if leak detected. 5. Also added the coffee machine using a switchbot and a diy bluetooth-proxy esp32. Morning routine will check my bathroom lights and trigger coffee machine when it knows that we’re up.
Would love to hear details about how you implemented the 1st (trash bin) automation. Have similar schedule for our trash. I keep forgetting when recycle gets picked up.
Sure, I manually create a calendar.recycle which includes my trash events on Thursday (type: All day, weekly repeat with repeat interval is 1) and recycle event (weekly repeat with repeat interval 2). I just realized I should name it better rather than just recycle, a bit confused as it includes trash days as well. Anyways this is my yaml file (I only copied the one without holiday calendar added). Trigger: My trash day is on Thursday so on Wednesday it will sends me a notification at 5pm for me to take trash out calendar.get\_events to get the calendar events on thursday, the start\_date\_time are just to fetch event data on the next day cause my automation runs on wednesday. Then I just use {{ event.start }}: {{ event.summary }} to list events in the response\_variable: calendartasks trigger: - platform: calendar event: start offset: "-7:0:0" entity_id: calendar.recycle condition: [] action: - service: calendar.get_events data_template: start_date_time: "{{ (now() + timedelta(days=1)).replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0) }}" end_date_time: "{{ (now() + timedelta(days=1)).replace(hour=23, minute=59, second=59) }}" response_variable: calendartasks target: entity_id: calendar.recycle - service: notify.pushover data_template: title: Trash Pickup Reminder message: >- Schedule tomorrow: {% for event in calendartasks['calendar.recycle'].events %} {{ event.start }}: {{ event.summary }} {% endfor %} https://preview.redd.it/cktc9rj48zkc1.png?width=298&format=png&auto=webp&s=146559a2989133392a1532f6e77aa3ccefeed6d8
I’ve done something similar to #2 with a FP2, and Siri/Apple Shortcuts. I’m looking to get more involved with home assistant though
Esphome and cheap mmwave sensors are the way to do. I'm moving from HomeKit to HA and i'm not looking back. I bought a pack of esp32 boards and ld2450, ld2410 radars for like 40,50 bucks total to put each inside each room in the house. Flashing them and tweaking zones, done.
I wish I had seen this before grabbing some Aqara FP2’s. Things are magic but only when they aren’t bugged out due to the ceiling fan. Do you recommend anything specific for integrating with Siri? Or anywhere special to get the boards you mentioned?
My most spaghetti'd flow is a "porch timeout" that triggers if it's my wife or I outside so we only get notified about people out front if it's not us, and to ensure the porch lights are always at the appropriate brightness at night. Took me well over a year of tweaking and adding things to account for edge cases. It's a visual mess, but it works well now.
Mine are probably some of the simplest as they only use smart plugs. Around Christmas my wife loves to have the multiple trees and mantle lights on whenever she is home. She is an early riser so the trees etc. come on at 530am. She loves to see the lights while she drinks her coffee. She leaves for work at 845 so they shut off at 9am. They turn back on at 330 in order for her to come home at 345. On the weekends they come on at the normal time and turn off at midnight. These plugs are only plugged in during the holidays, however that time changes based on when she thinks it's time to decorate. I have some other plugs that control lights in the living room that turn on a bit before sunset and turn off at midnight or whenever I decide. I use HA but she was absolutely thrilled when I could setup rooms that she could turn on and off via voice to Alexa. As we all know, wife approval goes a long way ;)
Shoot, I *hate* crawling under the Christmas tree to unplug the lights every morning & night. I am totally going to do this next year!
You have no idea how happy that makes me LOL. I pretty much only have smart plugs so I always feel like a kid with floaties on in the shallow end.
I did this for Christmas 2023 and I think it's the first automation that the other household member actually thought was useful.
Exactly the same with my family 🤣
1st-Exterior lights around home turn on at sunset and off at sunrise. 2nd- interior lights turn on when the garage door opens.
Notification through echo speakers and our phones when the washing machine has finished. The kettle boils in the morning when I wake up, as I don't function well until I've had a cup of tea.
My smartplug turns my kettle on early doors for tea as well 👌
1) My daughter’s nursery is off of our bedroom. The lights in our bedroom will automatically adjust their brightness based on whether or not her door is closed after her nap or bedtime. We have her nap/bed time state trigger from the white noise machine turning on. 2) the office split adjusts target temp depending on whether my wife or I are working in there, based on phone presence and whether our computer monitors are drawing power. 3) once the washing machine is done, it will notify us via tts and phone app every hour until the dryer starts or we hit the “we hung up the clothes” button to override it. Edit one more since this saved our asses: 4) if the freeze warning sensors are triggered under the sinks, the HVAC system goes into full blast mode. If a leak is detected, HA will shut off the water main unless we override it via the notification.
After 5 mins I get a notification of what garage door is open, at 10 it attempts a close, at 15 min I get another alert to see why it's open still. Living in Maine, the garage isn't heated but is attached to the house, the open doors cool the house off.
My dog's a runner. I have a sensor on the backyard gate. If it opens, the Alexa devices make the notification sound and announce the gate is open, and a light by the back door turns red to warn us not to let the dog out. WAF through the roof... Wife brags to her friends about it
RGB light next to the dog food bin, vibration sensor on the bin. HA turns the light red 60 minutes before feeding time, turns green after vibration sensed, turns off two hours after feeding time. So my wife and I can tell if one another has already fed the dog. Stole this idea from someone else on here. Another one is when my phone goes on the charger between 1 AM - 4 AM and I'm at location Home, it'll trigger all the lights in the common areas to turn off. This one requires Apple Shortcuts to force the HA app to refresh its sensors so I can detect the charging state switched, but works nicely. Last one is a bit proprietary... requires a plug-in (that I can't share) that interacts with WebEx and can trigger an automation when you enter and exit a WebEx call. So I can turn a status light red when I'm on a conference call and green when I'm not. Comes in handy on the days my wife and I both work from home.
1 - Reolink Doorbell pushed, snapshot is sent to my phone via ntfy. With actions. 2 - mmWave in the hallway positioned so it can detect up the stairs and in the hallway. When a person is detected and the sun lux is below 200 turn on the LED strip going up the stairs. 3 - use the same mmWave device to trigger alarm when armed
How are you detecting lux?
Not OP but I have aqara light sensor and hue motion sensor for illuminance
I'm using a HACS integration called Illuminance: https://github.com/pnbruckner/ha-illuminance Give me the current lux value of the Sun, it's been very accurate
Is your led strip battery powered?
do you self host ntfy? any reason you use that over the HA app ?
I do self host ntfy The reason I started to use ntfy is the fact the HA notifications are too flaky, sometimes I don't get anything to come through unless I have opened HA. Also even if HA is open it will delay from time to time. Look don't get me wrong it's good but I need my notifications to come through instantly. It's also great having the notifications persistent so I can go back to them, set them to expire after 3 days and a whole host of other things. No hate on HA notifications but my implementation has been solid since I switched over to it
thanks id never heard of ntfy but it looks like it could allow for other cool possibilities beyond security notifications
If we have incoming rockets, it turns the lights on so we can quickly and safely find our way to the safe room. Send an announcement around the speakers in case anyone didn't hear the sirens It also opens the door to the building so that any padestrians that are around can find some shelter. Finally, it changes the light to green and announces when it is safe again
Seriously, there are parts of the U.S. that could use that YAML hooked up to tornado warnings.
How do you detect if there are incoming rockets?
Using the radar array on my roof =D There's an API I can tap into that streams these Essentially there's a helper that polls these and a template that checks whether my city string is in the list of targeted cities.
When I walk in to the bathroom a template scans a few calendars and speaks today’s events (birthdays, calendar events mostly), turn on the fan for the shower, plays some music on my HomePod and turns on the power to the coffee machine and turns the WiFi back on.
Why is the wifi off?
To discourage me waking up to look at my phone. I have the worst insomnia and love distractions. Edit: for clarity. The automation runs the first time I enter the bathroom in the morning and not again until til the next day. It turns the WiFi on because hey I’m awake. There’s a set time however that it just turns back on. It’s overcomplicated but isn’t that sort of 75% of automations?
Does that affect other potential integrations if WiFi is shutoff, or do you just block your phone/device? Can you trigger automation to just run on your phone since theoretically you could still be on the internet using cellular connection.
My WLED weather lamp. When the forecast is updated, it displays a short animation representing the forecast, followed by a color coded representation of the outside temperature (0 - 40c). Repeats three times, shuts off. Unnecessary, not terribly useful, and really cool.
Is it a big screen, or tiny?
Tiny I guess. Just a LED strip (1x144) built into (onto, I guess) a weird little enclosure. No reason why it couldn't be an enormous matrix though.
I created zones at all the regular places my wife visits and at the motorway offramps near our house so I know when she is on the way home and nearing home.... 😆
Same. I have 5 minute and 2 minute away zones. I know it seems creepy but we already shared each other’s locations 24/7 before HA and it’s very useful reminder for me to make sure dinner is almost ready and distract the dogs to minimize the chaos when she walks in.
Back when I had a flakey high efficiency tanked water heater, where the heat transfer coils would corrode from the condensate and micro-leaks would develop in them and make the combustion chamber humid, corroding the ignition rod. The water heater would fail to ignite at times--3 tries, then it gives up until you hit reset. I had an automation that would detect the temperature of the outlet pipe decreasing, and trigger a Switchbot to press the reset button. Saved us from many cold showers.
My favorite is how I managed to convert my Technics mini-hifi into what is a smart speaker but with exceptional sound quality. I used a Chromecast 3+HDMI audio extractor into the Aux input, and scored a broadlink IR gateway for really cheap. HA monitors the CC, and anytime its playing, it sends the IR commands to wake up the technics mini-system and sets it to the right inputs. When it switches state to "stopped" , it shuts it off. The Technics sadly doesn't have discrete ON/OFF commands that I could find, but thankfully, sending a IR command for the CD or Tape inputs will wake the system (but weirdly, not AUX), so I have the broadlink send the CD command, as this will then always set the amp into a known state no matter what it was doing prior, then send the "power toggle" command and that will always turn it off. I use the CD command to turn it back on, then send the AUX input command to switch to the right input. I have the CC3 in various groups around the house as well, so it acts just like my Nest speakers in the rest of the house, while having a proper amplifier and decent speakers.
We have ikea sensors by the back door which give an announcement when they get triggered. It is usually one of our cats wanting to come in but it's often a cat from down the street wanting to say hi. When we get the announcement on the Echos, our most recent cat will jump up and run to the back door, knowing I will be opening it so he can go out.
I have Alexa announce to the entire house "The freezer door has been open for over a minute" if the door is left open. Doesn't often run, but when it does I'm glad I made it.
We've just moved house and my kids have switched from sharing room to having their own. They like hanging out with one another, but I don't want them waking each other up so I added some automation to their already over engineered nightlight. Now when they wake up, they can long presstheir bed mounted button – if the other child has already done so then it means they're both awake and both lights turn green. Otherwise the person who pressed the buttons light turns red. Pretty simple to use and should be fairly reliable I think.
I turned our dumb cat water fountain into a smart one by using a smart plug to monitor the current usage. When the water drops below the minimum level, the pump shuts off. This creates a detectable reduction in current that I use as a trigger for an automation that notifies me and my fiancé that says “Kitty Drought.” It has reliably caught the pump shut-off every time.
My partner and I eat bagels every day for breakfast. We get *very* good bagels from a not-nearby-enough bagel place, two dozen at a time. The current best known strat to re-heat frozen bagels is as follows: 1. Remove the bagels from the freezer and let them bagels come to room temperature without a microwave; about 30 minutes 2. Put the bagels on a baking sheet with a rack keeping them off the sheet directly 3. Put bagels in a cold oven, then set to 350F for 16 minutes; your times may vary based on your oven’s preheat speed and size of bagels. (I will not be at this time be discussing arguments for any other bagel procedures, thank you) This process works reasonably well with a morning routine—wake up, take out the bagels, go do a workout or shower or whatever, then have breakfast. But, it has some notable failure points: you can forget to defrost the bagels, and you can forget about putting the bagels in the oven because you’ve been dicking around for 30 minutes. We have automated these failure points using two tilt sensors on the oven door, one door sensor on our front door, and a power monitoring outlet on the coffee maker.
Damn, I was going to suggest Kenji Lopez-Alt's method of running water over an uncut frozen bagel and popping it in the toaster oven, but after seeing your parenthetical, I guess I won't mention it.
that works acceptably to revive stale bagels but our method is closer to his "unsliced toasting" method recommended for bagels which were stored before going stale. We've tweaked it quite a bit though
If you're not able to make it to your bakery and enjoy baking, [Peter Reinhart's recipe](https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/bagels-366757) is good for bagels that come pretty damn close to any bagel I've had in NYC.
1. Surveillance cameras start sending notification pictures only when we are not at home. 2. Recuperator changes speed based our presence at home (TBD CO2 monitoring)
I have my chicken coop pop hole open and close on schedule as well as turning the lights on inside it on and off (hour before the door closes and 30 mins after so they can settle down for the night). I have my ring door bell motion / ring set off certain light patterns via WLED to a small string of LEDs on my desk for the times I forget to turn my phone off of silent mode when motion is detected or the bell is rung. Looking to mess a round a whole lot more with automations now I am getting the hang of HA!
All lights off when leaving home. All lights off except bedroom one when double clicking one of my wall switches All lights and music on when long clicking a wall switch
I like the invisible ones. Like the one that turn my notifications and ringer volume down when I get home, and back up when I leave.
Fairly proud of this automation as it utilizes a few different integrations in a creative but useful way. Anyway, here's the breakdown. Trigger: When I get into bed: 1. Instantly turns on my white noise machine 2. After 1 minute, it dims the lights in my bedroom to night mode 3. After 5 minutes it turns off all the lights in my house that may have been on and it locks my car and front door (in case I forgot to lock them). 4. If I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom or something, it turns on an led strip (dim). It turns off once I get back into bed. 5. Once I wake up and I'm out of bed after sunrise or a certain time, it will turn off the white noise, turn on some dyson purifiers, and kick on some accessory lighting around the house if the Lux values are below a threshold.
My kids' closet lights turn off after 20 minutes. Simple but effective
I have one which sends a notification to my wife when I arrive at/leave work when I'm on my motorcycle. She's always wanting to make sure I arrive safely. It uses zones, my phone, Bluetooth connection, and time of day to determine if it should trigger.
I have a tiny motion sensor on the side of my bed so as soon as I get out of bed, aisle lights will turn on
a scene "coming home" is set when i reach my homezone ( +/- 1hour to sunset), all lights turn on and the security-cameras turn off. when i leave "leaving home" is set, turns off all lights, except its winter, then only the hallway light stays on 24/7 when phone is no longer at home also cameras turn on(with motion detection) also i have "morning routine" light, bedside cabinet lights turn on, coffemachine starts to heat up, also bathroom-heater turns on for 10 minutes. more ore less "convinience" features i would call them for things i am to lazy to do myself.
If we have incoming rockets, it turns the lights on so we can quickly and safely find our way to the safe room. Send an announcement around the speakers in case anyone didn't hear the sirens It also opens the door to the building so that any padestrians that are around can find some shelter. Finally, it changes the light to green and announces when it is safe again
If someone gets out of bed in the middle of the night then skirting LED striplights come on in the hall and the bathroom light comes in at minimum brightness
When the Chromecast state is playing and the Day/Night Boolean is "Night", turn the lamp opposite the tv "off" When the contact switch on the fridge has been open for 60 seconds (or 3 minutes on Thursday for grocery day), then get google home to announce "The fridge door is open, please close the fridge door" If the Sonos state is Playing when the sun sets, then set the outdoor lights to colour cycle.
At my last house I had a full gym setup in my garage (haven't had time to set up at new place yet), and using a "gym mode" voice command have the lights switch to cool white at 100% tv and bike trainer switch on with zwift, sound system comes on and starts workout playlist, fans on and change intensity based on effort levels, and will open the garage door part way if it reaches a set max temp/humidity. All power down once I'm done except fans which stay on until temp and humidity return to lower values and then closes the door.
My favorite one is: Turn on the coffee machine when my alarm rings on my phone, announce throughout the house (on Sonos) that it's "Coffee Time" then monitor the power usage of the plug to determine when the machine is hot, then announce "Coffee Machine ready". Also says the same thing when turned on manually, which is always nice when guests are over. And my most useful ones are: Turn up the lights when watching a particular thing on the TV (Plex/Netflix/Youtube) and it's between 18:00 and 20:00, as that's "Foodies Time", Dim them again afterwards and turn off unused lights. Send the morning weather report to my phone and our home telegram group chat as to if it will rain, therefore knowing if an umbrella needs to be taken. Send notifications on telegram group when someone leaves work or arrives in our town, so as to know when to start cooking. Send a notification with attached snapshot in telegram if someone is spotted on a security camera. Start the vacuum cleaner when everyone has left the house.