Home Assistant Configuration

Home Assistant configuration files.

Some detailed information about setting various parts of this up on DIY Futurism.

• Hardware
• Presence Detection
• Automations
• House Modes
• Other Projects Used

My HA is an Hassbian install on a Raspberry Pi 3 with an GoControl Z-Wave/Zigbee USB stick.

Running HA version: 0.47.1

Hardware

• Lights
  • LimitlessLED - Milight RGB Bulbs using MiLight WiFi Bridge x2
  • Ikea Tradfri - several bulbs via gateway
  • ESP8266 bulb with AiLight firmware - TESTING
• Wall Switches
  • GE Z-Wave 12727 Wall Toggle Switch x1
  • GE Z-Wave 12729 Wall Toggle Dimmer Switch x2
  • Enerwave Z-Wave ZWN-RSM2 Dual In-Wall Relay x1
• Smart Devices
  • WEMO Mr. Coffee
  • Withings Body Scale
  • Fitbit
• Switches
  • TP-Link HS100 Smart Switch
  • Sonoff Switches running Sonoff-HomeAssistant firmware
• Media Players
  • Volumio Raspberry Pi streaming player for stereo
  • Plex (Roku)
  • MPD - plays radio through speaker on HA Raspberry Pi
  • VLC - for Amazon Polly TTS output
• Sensors
  • Wemos D1 Mini (esp8266) nodes with sensors for motion, temps, etc. via MQTT
  • Mi Flora plant sensors x9
  • Z-Wave Motion Sensor (battery powered)
• Other Hardware
  • Echo Dot Voice control
  • Bluetooth iBeacons
  • old iPhones with IPCam app
  • Synology DS413j - NAS
  • Amazon Dash Buttons

Presence

Tracking with:

• Owntracks - 'significant changes' mode, iBeacon
• HomeAssistant iOS app - enable location tracking, enable iBeacon
• ping - Is my phone pingable on my network?
• Bluetooth

I use a python script to filter 'home' and 'not_home' signals by platform.

• All platforms update 'home'
• Only GPS platforms (Owntracks, iOS app) update 'not_home'
  • Delayed by 10 minutes to avoid turning everything off on quick dog walks / bodega runs
• Retain the most recent GPS coordinates and battery state regardless of platform

This script creates a new device_tracker with the most recent information and state, using the most platforms in the most reliable way.

Position in house is located using sensor.last_motion

Automations

• Alarm
  • Alarm Away - when no one is home
  • Alarm Home - when coming home
  • TTS Announce Disarm, Pending, and Armed Status
  • Audible Alert when Front Door opens and Armed Home
  • Trigger Alarm - Notify with security camera photo if Door Opened, "Presence Detected" announcement
• Alarm Clock
  • Make Morning Coffee when Alarm goes off
  • Alarm Clock - turn on lights and radio to wake me up
  • TTS Annouce Weather & other Info
  • UI - change default view to show commute times, weather info during morning
• Aquarium
  • Turn on 30 mins before sunrise and 1 hour after
  • Turn on 1 hour before sunset, turn off 4 hours after or at 10PM (whichever is first)
• Climate
  • Indoor Temperature & Humidity is a mean of all available sensors (using min_max component)
• Dash Buttons
  • Laundry Timer - iOS Notification & TTS notification for timer
• IFTT Integration
  • When plants need to be watered, add them to my Todoist todo list
  • If Fitbit logs new sleep but no alarm is set, wake house up
  • Withings weigh in before bed 9pm - 12am, start goodnight sequence
• Lights
  • Flux - adjust color temp based on time (currently Tradfri lights only)
  • Sunset - 40m before sunset, turn on evening lights
  • Day - during day turn on day dim lights and throttle Transmission
  • Evening - turn on dim lights if I come home after 10pm
  • After Midnight - turn on red lights if I come home 12a-430a
  • Turn everything off when no one's home
  • Turn Closet lights on/off by motion detector
  • Turn Bathroom lights on/off by motion detector (off 12a-8:30a)
  • Turn Crawl space light on/off by door sensor
  • Turn kitchen lamps on/off using wall switch
  • Turn on office lamps using switch
  • Night Light - Kitchen on motion
• Media
  • Dim house lights when Plex starts playing
  • Turn on bathroom lights & lamp when movie pausd
  • Fade house lights up when Plex stops
  • Turns off bandwidth throttling for Transmission/sabnzbd when I'm away from home
• Python Scripts
  • are_any_lights_on.py - input_boolean for lights on/off, counts lights and switches on
    • Does not count nightlights
  • meta_device_tracker.py - Consolidate device tracking into one entity, only use GPS platforms for 'not_home'
  • plant_problems.py - Count number of plants that need attention
• Notifications
  • Alarm - security photo if door opens when armed_away
  • Alarm Clock - send weather summary and image from window camera when alarm goes off
  • Security - send image from front door camera if no one's home and door opens
  • Reminder - If I'm home at 10:30pm and coffee isn't ready but alarm is set, remind me
  • Reminder - Full moon
  • Plants - Once a day reminder to water plants if more than 3 are thirsty
  • System - Notify if disk use gets high
  • System - Notify if new HA version available
  • System - Notify when critical smart home device goes offline for more than 5 minutes
• Timelapse - record JPEGs of sunrise/sunset

House Modes

• Alarm Override - Turns off all alarm automations, sound effects, and alerts.
• Night Light Override - Prevents red night lights from coming on
• Vacation Mode
• Guest Mode

Other Projects Used

• esp8266 related
  • Sonoff-HomeAssistant
  • ESPEasy
  • AiLight
  • esp8266-milight-hub
  • Bruh Multisensor
• HA addons
  • Floorplan
  • custom-ui
  • dasher
• forever-service For Python scripts as services
• My Scripts
  • raspi-pir-mqtt-homeassistant Publish connected PIR sensor to MQTT on a Raspberry Pi
• Media Software
  • Transmission torrent manager
  • sabnzbd NZB queue manager
  • Plex Media management & server