Fully automatic light management based on motion as AppDaemon app.

🕓 multiple daytimes to define different scenes for morning, noon, ...
💡 supports Hue (for Hue Rooms/Groups) & Home Assistant scenes
🔌 switches lights and plugs (with lights)
☀️ supports illumination sensors to switch the light just if needed
💦 supports humidity sensors as blocker (the "shower case")
🔍 automatic discovery of lights and sensors
⛰️ stable and tested by many people with different homes

Getting Started

Docker Image (amd64, arm and arm64)

You can try AutoMoLi via Docker without installing anything! The Image is the default AppDaemon one with AutoMoLi and a simple default configuration added. See the AppDaemon Docker Tutorial on how to use it in general.

AutoMoLi expects motion sensors and lights including a room name. The exact patterns are listed in Auto-Discovery of Lights and Sensors You can set a room with the AUTOMOLI_ROOM variable in the Docker run command.

docker run --rm --interactive --tty --name AutoMoLi \
--env HA_URL="<HA URL>" \
--env TOKEN="<HA Token>" \
--env AUTOMOLI_ROOM="bathroom" \
--ports 5050:5050 \
benleb/automoli:latest

Port 5050 is opened to give access to the AppDaemon Admin-UI at http://127.0.0.1:5050

Example

To test AutoMoLi in your Esszimmer (german for dining room), use ... --env AUTOMOLI_ROOM="esszimmer" ... in the Docker run command.

• AppDaemon will show you its config file on startup:

• If everything works, AutoMoLi will show you the configuration it has parsed, including the discovered sensors:

• This is how it looks when AutoMoLi manages your lights:

Installation

Use HACS or download the automoli directory from inside the apps directory here to your local apps directory, then add the configuration to enable the automoli module.

Example App Configuration

Add your configuration to appdaemon/apps/apps.yaml, an example with two rooms is below.

livingroom:
  module: automoli
  class: AutoMoLi
  room: livingroom
  disable_switch_entities:
    - input_boolean.automoli
    - input_boolean.disable_my_house
  delay: 600
  daytimes:
      # This rule "morning" uses a scene, the scene.livingroom_morning Home Assistant scene will be used
    - { starttime: "sunrise", name: morning, light: "scene.livingroom_morning" }

    - { starttime: "07:30", name: day, light: "scene.livingroom_working" }

      # This rule"evening" uses a percentage brightness value, and the lights specified in lights: below will be set to 90%
    - { starttime: "sunset-01:00", name: evening, light: 90 }

    - { starttime: "22:30", name: night, light: 20 }

      # This rule has the lights set to 0, so they will no turn on during this time period
    - { starttime: "23:30", name: more_night, light: 0 }

  # If you are using an illuminance sensor you can set the lowest value here that blocks the lights turning on if its already light enough
  illuminance: sensor.illuminance_livingroom
  illuminance_threshold: 100

  # You can specify a light group or list of lights here
  lights:
    - light.livingroom

  # You can specify a list of motion sensors here
  motion:
    - binary_sensor.motion_sensor_153d000224f421
    - binary_sensor.motion_sensor_128d4101b95fb7

  # See below for info on humidity
  humidity:
    - sensor.humidity_128d4101b95fb7


bathroom:
  module: automoli
  class: AutoMoLi
  room: bathroom
  delay: 180
  motion_state_on: "on"
  motion_state_off: "off"
  daytimes:
    - { starttime: "05:30", name: morning, light: 45 }
    - { starttime: "07:30", name: day, light: "scene.bathroom_day" }
    - { starttime: "20:30", name: evening, light: 100 }
    - { starttime: "sunset+01:00", name: night, light: 0 }

  # As this is a bathroom there could be the case that when taking a bath or shower, motion is not detected and the lights turn off, which isnt helpful, so the following settings allow you to use a humidity sensor and humidity threshold to prevent this by detecting the humidity from the shower and blocking the lights turning off.
  humidity:
    - sensor.humidity_128d4101b95fb7
  humidity_threshold: 75

  lights:
    - light.bathroom
    - switch.plug_68fe8b4c9fa1
  motion:
    - binary_sensor.motion_sensor_158d033224e141

Auto-Discovery of Lights and Sensors

AutoMoLi is built around rooms. Every room or area in your home is represented as a seperate app in AppDaemon with separat light setting. In your configuration you will have one config block for every room, see example configuration.
For the auto-discovery of your lights and sensors to work, AutoMoLi expects motion sensors and lights including a room name (can also be something else than a real room) like below:

• sensor.illumination_room
• binary_sensor.motion_sensor_room
• binary_sensor.motion_sensor_room_something
• light.room

AutoMoLi will detect them automatically. Manually configured entities will take precedence, but need to follow the naming scheme above.

Configuration Options

key	optional	type	default	description
module	False	string	automoli	The module name of the app.
class	False	string	AutoMoLi	The name of the Class.
room	False	string		The "room" used to find matching sensors/light
disable_switch_entities	True	list/string		One or more Home Assistant Entities as switch for AutoMoLi. If the state of any entity is off, AutoMoLi is deactivated. (Use an input_boolean for example)
only_own_events	True	bool		Track if automoli switched this light on. If not, an existing timer will be deleted and the state will not change
disable_switch_states	True	list/string	["off"]	Custom states for disable_switch_entities. If the state of any entity is in this list, AutoMoLi is deactivated. Can be used to disable with media_players in playing state for example.
disable_hue_groups	False	boolean		Disable the use of Hue Groups/Scenes
delay	True	integer	150	Seconds without motion until lights will switched off. Can be disabled (lights stay always on) with 0
motion_event	True	string		replaced by motion_state_on/off
daytimes	True	list	see code	Different daytimes with light settings (see below)
transition_on_daytime_switch	True	bool	False	directly activate a daytime on its start time (instead to just set it as active daytime used if lights are switched from off to on)
lights	True	list/string	auto detect	Light entities
motion	True	list/string	auto detect	Motion sensor entities
illuminance	True	list/string		Illuminance sensor entities
illuminance_threshold	True	integer		If illuminance is above this value, lights will not switched on
humidity	True	list/string		Humidity sensor entities
humidity_threshold	True	integer		If humidity is above this value, lights will not switched off
motion_state_on	True	integer		If using motion sensors which don't send events if already activated, like Xiaomi do, add this to your config with "on". This will listen to state changes instead
motion_state_off	True	integer		If using motion sensors which don't send events if already activated, like Xiaomi do, add this to your config with "off". This will listen to the state changes instead.
debug_log	True	bool	false	Activate debug logging (for this room)

daytimes

key	optional	type	default	description
starttime	False	string		Time this daytime starts or sunrise
name	False	string		A name for this daytime
delay	True	integer	150	Seconds without motion until lights will switched off. Can be disabled (lights stay always on) with 0. Setting this will overwrite the global delay setting for this daytime.
light	False	integer/string		Light setting (percent integer value (0-100) in or scene entity

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Meta

Ben Lebherz: automation lover ⚙️ developer & maintainer - @benleb | @ben_leb

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details