Tired of writing the same automations, over and over, for each of your rooms? You wish Home Assistant just figured out all entities you have in an area and magically started being smarter about them?
Magic Areas is the batteries that were missing! Would like to have a single motion
sensor that is grouped to all your other motion sensors in that area? What if all (most) of your sensor
and binary_sensor
entities had aggregates (grouping/average), PER AREA? Would you like for lights and climate devices to turn on and off MAGICALLY whenever an area is occupied/clear?
If you think all of the above features are freaking awesome, Magic Areas is here for you!
- Uses multiple type of sensors for determining presence on an area.
media_player
,binary_sensors
(all listed types) are supported- Support exclusion of entities you don't want to be considered.
- Support inclusion of entities not in the Area Registry (i.e. integrations that don't define an
unique_id
). - Automatic turn climates and lights on! (All or user-defined).
- Creates lights groups which reacts to different area states!
- Automatic turn off lights, climate and media devices when a room is clear
- Creates a
Health
sensor (triggered bybinary_sensors
withproblem
,smoke
,moisture
,safety
andgas
device classes) for each area - Creates a
Presence Hold
switch to manually override area presence - Creates aggregation sensors for your
binary_sensor
such as:- Motion sensors
- Door sensors
- Window sensors
- Leak sensors
- Creates average (and sums) sensors for all your
sensor
needs - Creates global (interior/exterior) aggregate and average sensors
- Area-Aware Media Player: Forward
media_play
events to media player entities in occupied areas only!
Magic Areas is available on HACS! For installation instructions check the installation wiki.
Configuration options for Magic Areas
are on a per-area basis.
โ ๏ธ Before you start: Please make sure you understand all the Concepts on the wiki.
๐ก Light Groups won't control any lights unless the
Light Control
switch for that area is turnedon
!
Go to Configuration > Integrations. You shall see the Magic Areas integration and configure each area (and Meta-Areas!).
See all configuration options in the wiki.
Please enable debug logging by putting this in configuration.yaml
:
logger:
default: warning
logs:
custom_components.magic_areas: debug
As soon as the issue occurs capture the contents of the the log (/config/home-assistant.log
) and open up a ticket!