macOccupancyTemplate

Mac Occupancy Template

I'm using the Home Assistant Mac App. I love to use the active, facetime camera, connection type and mic sensor for my automation.

This information can permit HA to know if the laptop is used in the office or not. For example, turn on the light office if mac is active and connected on to my monitor.

So I decided to play with the template and the unifi sensor of the mac to achieve this target.

The template sensor has 4 states:

• Desk: Mac active and connected to my monitor
• Wifi: Mac active and connected to home wifi
• Offsite: Mac active and connected outside of the home
• Off: Mac not active

configuration.yaml

# computer mac_occupancy
- platform: template
  sensors:
    fastroom_occupancy:
      friendly_name: "Fastroom Occupency"
      value_template: >-
        {% if is_state('binary_sensor.fastroom_active', 'on') or is_state('binary_sensor.fastroom_camera_in_use', 'on')  %}
          {% if is_state('sensor.fastroom_primary_display_name', 'MY_MONITOR') %}
            Desk
          {% elif is_state('sensor.fastroom_ssid', 'MY_WIFI') %}
            Wifi
          {% else %}
            Offsite
          {% endif %}
        {% else %}
          Off
        {% endif %}
      icon_template: >-
        {% if is_state('binary_sensor.fastroom_active', 'on') or is_state('binary_sensor.fastroom_camera_in_use', 'on')  %}
          {% if is_state('sensor.fastroom_primary_display_name', 'MY_MONITOR') %}
            mdi:monitor-share
          {% elif is_state('sensor.fastroom_ssid', 'MY_WIFI') %}
            mdi:monitor
          {% else %}
            mdi:monitor-off
          {% endif %}
        {% else %}
          mdi:monitor-off
        {% endif %}

There is a similar template for the Apple TV usage using the Apple TV integration.

# apple_tv_occupancy
- platform: template
  sensors:
    apple_tv_occupancy:
      friendly_name: "Apple TV"
      value_template: >-
        {% if is_state('media_player.apple_tv', 'playing') %}
          Playing
        {% else %}
          Off
        {% endif %}
      icon_template: >-
        {% if is_state('media_player.apple_tv', 'playing') %}
          mdi:cast-connected
        {% else %}
          mdi:cast
        {% endif %}

If you are using custom-ui, you can change the colour of the icon base on the status.

customize_glob.yaml

# sensor template for mac
sensor.*_occupancy:
  templates:
    icon_color: >
      if (state === 'Desk') return 'rgb(251, 210, 41)';
      if (state === 'Wifi') return 'rgb(251, 210, 41)';
      if (state === 'Playing') return 'rgb(251, 210, 41)';      
      return 'rgb(54, 95, 140)';