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Home Assistant config files, rewritten to use the latest features, 100+ documented automations, automatically generated ToC :house: :robot:

Bas Nijholt's Home Assistant config files

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Lovelace UI MacBook touchbar

Using my iOS Light and Dark Mode Themes.

See also my guide for my girlfriend ❤️.

Table of content

  • My devices
  • Supervisor add-ons
  • All my automations

Noteworthy (useful) automations

See all my automations and its dependencies down the page!

  • Alarm clock that uses the AppDaemon volume ramp and sunrise app ⏰
  • Automatic lovelace.json to lovelace-ui.yaml converter for version control 🤖
  • Controlling music and lights (hue and brightness) using the Xiaomi Aqara Magic Cube
  • Controlling the lights using Phillips Hue Dimmers the Xiaomi Aqara Smart Switches 🎛
  • Automated lights 💡
  • Presence detection in different rooms based on various binary template sensors
  • Robot vacuum automations 🧹
  • Arriving and leaving automations
  • Notifications when the dishwasher or washing machine is done
  • Time at work 📈 tracking and notifications to go home
  • Using HA-Menu to control my speakers on my iMac
  • Using home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar to control HA on my MacBook Pro's Touch Bar 💻
  • Automatically switch Lovelace's theme between backgrounds and light/dark mode
  • Sync volume TV ⇄ speakers 🔊
  • Security notifications when the front door 🚪 has been open for too long or motion is detected when no one is home

My cool AppDaemon apps

  • Sunrise emulator app 🌅
  • Wake up with Spotify app that slowly ramps the volume 📢
  • Low Battery level notifications 🔋

Popular Reddit posts of features in this config

(Sorted from new to old)

Ideas?

  • Notify us when the window is open and it is raining.
  • Add budget keeper using the Bunq API

My devices

Switches 🎚 Units (#) Price per unit (€) Price (€)
TP-Link HS110 1 35.84 35.84
Xiaomi Aqara Magic Cube 1 11.08 11.08
Xiaomi Aqara Single Button 4 14.35 57.38
Philips Hue Dimmer switch 2 16.61 33.22
Total     137.52
       
Sensors 🌡 Units (#) Price per unit (€) Price (€)
Xiaomi Aqara Door Sensor 4 8.18 32.71
Xiaomi Aqara Temperature Sensor 5 9.15 45.74
Xiaomi Aqara Motion Sensor 10 9.79 97.85
Xiaomi Aqara Vibration Sensor 1 11.59 11.59
Xiaomi Mi Flora 3 15.54 46.63
Total     234.52
       
Vacuum 🧹 Units (#) Price per unit (€) Price (€)
Xiaomi Mi Roborock S5 1 294.31 294.31
Total     294.31
       
Media player 📺🔈 Units (#) Price per unit (€) Price (€)
KEF LS50 Wireless speakers 1 nan nan
KEF LSX speakers 1 nan nan
LG OLED 55 C9 1 nan nan
       
Lights 💡 Units (#) Price per unit (€) Price (€)
Philips Hue E27 White and Color 12 22.22 266.7
Philips Hue E14 White and Color 2 34.88 69.77
Philips Hue GU10 Ambient White 5 18.54 92.7
Philips Hue Go 1 57.05 57.05
Philips Hue LED strip 2m 2 43.2 86.39
Philips Hue LED strip 1m 1 13.84 13.84
Total     586.45
       
Hubs 🌎 Units (#) Price per unit (€) Price (€)
ConBee II 1 39.95 39.95
Total     39.95
       
Server 🖥 Units (#) Price per unit (€) Price (€)
Intel NUC Kit NUC8i3BEH 1 278.3 278.3
8 GB Crucial CT8G4SFS824A DDR4 2 25.52 51.04
Samsung 970 EVO M.2 500GB 1 94.99 94.99
Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB RAM (connected to power/gas meter and connected over MQTT to main HA instance) 1 70.9 70.9
Raspberry Pi 4 FLIRC Case 1 25.85 25.85
SanDisk Ultra microSDHC Memory Card 32GB 1 6.99 6.99
Total     528.07
       
Device tracker 🔍 Units (#) Price per unit (€) Price (€)
iPhone X with the iOS app 1 nan nan
iPhone SE2 with the iOS app 1 nan nan
       
Other Units (#) Price per unit (€) Price (€)
PlayStation Eye Webcam and Microphone array 1 14.95 14.95
DSMR - Slimme Meter kabel 1 19.95 19.95
Nodo-Shop – OpenTherm Gateway (OTGW) with NodeMCU 1 48.81 48.81
Total     83.71
       
Total €1904.53

Supervisor add-ons

I run a Supervised install with the following add-ons:

Automations - Table of Content

  1. Adaptive lighting 🌄🌇 (3 automations)
  2. Alarm clock ⏰ (1 automations)
  3. Apple Watch ⌚ (12 automations)
  4. Arriving 👞 (1 automations)
  5. Climate 🔥🥶 (6 automations)
  6. Control switches 🎛 (6 automations)
  7. Cube ∛ (2 automations)
  8. Doorbell 🚪🔔 (1 automations)
  9. Frontend 👨‍💻 (3 automations)
  10. Leaving 👞 (4 automations)
  11. Light 💡 (19 automations)
  12. Lovelace 👨‍💻 (1 automations)
  13. Media player 🔈📺 (6 automations)
  14. Music 🎵 (2 automations)
  15. Notifications 🔔 (1 automations)
  16. Plant 🌱 (3 automations)
  17. Security 👮🚨 (4 automations)
  18. Night mode 🌕🌑 (5 automations)
  19. System 🖥 (7 automations)
  20. Test 🧪 (4 automations)
  21. Utilities 🧺👚🍽 (3 automations)
  22. Vacation mode 🏝 (2 automations)
  23. Vacuum 🧹 (6 automations)
  24. Work 💼 (3 automations)

⚠️ Total number of automations: 105 ⚠️

Adaptive lighting 🌄🌇

Turn on and off switches

which uses:

Reset manual_control after 1 hour

Notify manual_control

^ toc

Alarm clock ⏰

Wake up with Spotify and light

which uses:

^ toc

Apple Watch ⌚

Play or Pause the TV

Minimal lights bedroom

Fix TV sound

which uses:

Set sleep mode

which uses:

Set lights

which uses:

Temperature report

Portfolio value

Send vacuum cleaner

which uses:

Movie time

Reset adaptive lighting

which uses:

Set temperature

Where is other person?

^ toc

Arriving 👞

Switch music from iPhone to speakers if no one is home

which uses:

^ toc

Climate 🔥🥶

Turn on the heating 30 min before waking up

which uses:

Turn on the heating when going home

which uses:

Turn off the heating at 22:00

which uses:

Set outside temperature every hour

Warning when heating on and living room door open

which uses:

Set temperature setpoint to 50 °C

^ toc

Control switches 🎛

Living room Philips Hue dimmer switch

which uses:

Bedroom Philips Hue dimmer switch

which uses:

Living room Aqara Wireless Mini Switch

which uses:

Bedroom Aqara Wireless Mini Switch

which uses:

Bathroom Aqara Wireless Mini Switch

which uses:

Downstairs Aqara Wireless Mini Switch

which uses:

^ toc

Cube ∛

Perform operation

which uses:

Rotate the cube

which uses:

^ toc

Doorbell 🚪🔔

Click the button

^ toc

Frontend 👨‍💻

Turn on dark mode

which uses:

Turn on light mode

which uses:

Change theme

which uses:

^ toc

Leaving 👞

Automatically turn off everything

which uses:

Ask to turn off everything

which uses:

Turn off everything after notification

which uses:

Downstairs Aqara Wireless Mini Switch

which uses:

^ toc

Light 💡

Turn on living room

which uses:

Turn off living room

which uses:

Toggle kitchen ceiling

which uses:

Turn on kitchen counter if sleep mode is off

which uses:

Turn off kitchen counter

which uses:

Toggle bathroom

which uses:

Toggle toilet

which uses:

Turn on hall

which uses:

Turn off hall

which uses:

Automatically turn on the bedroom

which uses:

Automatically turn off the bedroom

which uses:

Turn off bedroom lights auto switch

which uses:

Turn on automatic_bedroom_lights switch

which uses:

Turn off bedroom after 2 hours of inactivity

which uses:

Turn off toilet (extra check)

In case the other automation failed

which uses:

Turn off bathroom (extra check)

In case the other automation failed

which uses:

Turn off kitchen (extra check)

In case the other automation failed

which uses:

Turn off hall (extra check)

In case the other automation failed

which uses:

Turn off bedroom (extra check)

In case the other automation failed

which uses:

^ toc

Lovelace 👨‍💻

Convert lovelace.json to lovelace-ui.yaml

which uses:

^ toc

Media player 🔈📺

Turn on Opt when TV is on and Spotify is not playing and not Usb

The speaker is connected via an optical cable to the TV. Whenever the speakers aren't playing Spotify (via WiFi) directly, switch the source of the speakers to "Opt".

Turn off speakers when turning off TV

If speakers off and TV on, turn on the speaker on TV state change

Update Spotify entity when TV is on every 5 seconds

Sync KEF LS50 and TV volume

Automatically turn off TV and speakers after two hours of inactivity

^ toc

Music 🎵

Start playlist

which uses:

Switch music from iPhone to speakers if coming home

which uses:

^ toc

Notifications 🔔

Marcella arrived at Rotterdam Centraal

^ toc

Plant 🌱

Problem with Calathea

which uses:

Problem with Monstera

which uses:

Problem with Peace lily

which uses:

^ toc

Security 👮🚨

Motion detected but we are not home

which uses:

Door has been open for more than 5 minutes

which uses:

No one is home but high power usage

which uses:

Office door has opened

which uses:

^ toc

Night mode 🌕🌑

Automatically turn off when alarm turns off or at 7AM

which uses:

Turn off automatic bedroom lights

which uses:

Set low temperature when sleep mode turns on

which uses:

Go from half to total sleeping mode

When it is half sleeping mode and there is no activity in the house for more than an hour go to total sleeping mode.

which uses:

Set sleeping mode in the living room

Set the living room lights to sleep mode only when no-one is there anymore.

which uses:

^ toc

System 🖥

Warning about high CPU usage

Warning about high CPU temperature

Warning about high Xbox temperature

Update DNS

Update the DNS at Gandi to point my domain to my Home Assistant instance.

which uses:

Run chores

Run shell and Python scripts in utils folder.

which uses:

MQTT sensors are not updating

Check whether we are receiving messages over MQTT from my other HA instance.

Battery level low

^ toc

Test 🧪

Listen to Adaptive Lighting events

Time

Flash lights

Call update_entity after light.turn_on/turn_off

^ toc

Utilities 🧺👚🍽

Washing machine or dishwasher started or finished

which uses:

Washing machine notification

which uses:

Dishwasher notification

which uses:

^ toc

Vacation mode 🏝

Auto turn on

which uses:

Auto turn off

which uses:

^ toc

Vacuum 🧹

Started cleaning

Stopped cleaning

which uses:

Reminder notification

which uses:

Cleanup if nobody is home

which uses:

Reset cleaned today

which uses:

Reset to standard mode

^ toc

Work 💼

Go home notification

which uses:

Reset input_boolean at midnight

which uses:

Bas left work notification for Marcella

^ toc