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https://community.home-assistant.io/t/pir-motion-last-seen-sensor/16390/23
https://www.home-assistant.io/cookbook/turn_on_light_for_10_minutes_when_motion_detected/

https://philhawthorne.com/making-home-assistants-presence-detection-not-so-binary/

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/uptime/

Is it being triggered by the downstairs motion sensor? I can see why a subset of that group might be in such an event, but not everything. It's weird. Unless of course - the entity is "True" when ANY of the included entities are themselves "True".....

I have been rebooting HA, and occasionally it results in the HomeKit entities reverting to the Default room, or just not coming back at all.

I need a reliable approach. Some people have suggested that it has to do with the entities not being available, and so waiting >= 1 min to ensure that they have all come up successfully.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/homekit-doesnt-save-device-room-assignment/49486/4

I think the automation-script pattern will work well here.

I.e. One automation: triggered on any motion sensor (I should group them) tripping, conditioned on House Mode == 'Unoccupied', and then - it calls a notification script.

For extra credit - do we turn down the sensitivity so that it doesn't trip on a dog/cat but will on a human?

The main issue I see is - how do we import that sub-repo in a way that is less crude that a raw copy-paste. A copy-paste WILL WORK, yet it's crude as hell. What happens if the dude ever updates his repo? Also, it feels less than cool to just copy-paste without some sort of attribution.

So, submodules seems to be an option:
https://gist.github.com/Noitidart/7af2e120bb83e2be9aa4cc3ca0a37722
https://github.blog/2016-02-01-working-with-submodules/
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules

I.e. just rely on the notifications from the sensors, and then remove the automations in Hue.

Here is the apparatus that generally needs to be replicated:

• Max sensitivity (not sure if this can be set).
• Upon detection - turn on lights. Max brightness, regardless of time of day.
  • For the storeroom - it's nightlight from 2300-0800, but I reckon that's silly and it should be max brightness at all times for both.
• After 30 mins (I.e. of last detection? I'm uncertain) - turn off.
  • For the storeroom - it's 5 mins after. 30 mins is for the toilet.

They don't throw errors, but neither can I make them work.

Critically, the other sensors, like git for example, display a log message like this:

./.storage/core.entity_registry: "entity_id": "sensor.home_assistant_config",
./home-assistant.log:2020-01-20 22:14:13 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity_registry] Registered new sensor.github entity: sensor.home_assistant_config

These two though - never get there. It's weird.

I.e. just rely on the notifications from the sensors, and then remove the automations in Hue.

Can I get any value from integrating this, or a similar item: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/apple_tv/

https://github.com/hacs/integration

I would like to be able to do this with code, like with a submodule. Doing so makes me feel as though I have a durable dependency / link to the hacs repo.

Second preference would be to take a one-time copy of it, and commit to custom-integrations, etc.

Third preference would be - install it, but keep it out of this repo. Doesn't help me if I need to rebuild this thing from scratch though.

Currently done through the GUI. Uncool.

Requires me to get the python library working (https://github.com/snikch/escea). Once that's done, presumably the HomeAssistant Integration ought to be pretty simple (https://github.com/snikch/climate.escea).

Hopefully this will work, because the alternative is going to be using scraping, or - worst case - SDR.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/guide-to-setting-up-a-fully-automated-ci-for-hassio/51576

These are now on sale at JB HiFi. So, getting them is quite a but easier than getting other devices from Amazon / eBay.

Here is the integration. It's a cloud API, which isn't great. So, I'm vulnerable in the event of an ISP outage, which is not great.

https://github.com/USA-RedDragon/badnest

Moon is its own platform: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/moon/

I.e. notifications when Evie trips the motion sensor, when that mode is active.

Requirements

• As Pete, I want to be able to set a mode, which we will call "Evie Sleep Mode". A boolean.
• While on, if movement is detected, notify Pete's iPhone.
• Auto-deactivate at 0630 daily.

Range issue? Seems intermittent. Should monitor.

I am still on 0.98 in production.

I have no idea how to configure docker to use the newer release (0.99.3 as at this writing).

Requirements:

• As a visitor - I want to experience the house without having to deal with some of the automations that are going to feel random and silly to me.
• As Pete - I want visitor mode to be enabled automatically upon the arrival of some, regular visitors to the house. E.g. Helen, Dale, Jennie, possibly Sam (?)

Implementation:

• Some sort of a switch on the front-end, allowing Guest Mode to be manually toggled.
• Action to be triggered upon the switch being thrown - deactivate the last-person-leaving automation, lights out at midnight automation, etc.
• Characterise frequent guests with device_trackers for their mobile phones.
• Upon seeing such devices turn-up on the network / in the house, enable Guest Mode. Perhaps characterise this group of devices into a binary_sensor.
• Auto-closure of Guest Mode behaviours:
  • If triggered by device - Guest Mode should end 30 mins after the binary_sensor returns False.
  • if triggered manually - has to be deactivated manually. Possibly later I can make it expire on a configurable timer.
• What are the edge cases?
  • There are no edge-cases for visitor arrivals.
    • If a guest device arrives while Guest Mode is on - do nothing.
    • If a guest is already home, Guest Mode will already be on, so it won't be selectable.
  • Edge-cases for visitor departure:
    • If the last Guest leaves, then deactivate Guest Mode .....

CONSIDERATION
Do I really want two modes here. I.e.

1. An automated guest-arrival for known_devices, with presence-based on/off. Armed by default.
2. An automation override, that allows guest-mode to be held-on manually, and which does so regardless of what (1) is doing.

Might be cleaner. Consider.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/i-was-ready-to-give-up-on-home-assistant-until-i-moved-the-database/116980

I have tried to build the feature using the alert primitive. It works, basically, but there's a defect. It will send a notification each time the sensor trips, which is not great because the sensor resets itself about every 30s. I thought that using the "repeat" parameter would slow this, but alas, no.

So, I think we need to do something different:

• Alert on the trigger.
• Maintain a variable showing last time the alert notified out. Seed it with now() upon start.
• Upon triggering (state change) - check if 5 mins has elapsed since the last notification.
• If 5 mins or more have elapsed - send a notification.

So, how to invoke a script from an alert?

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/combining-alerts-with-scripts-or-automations-for-tts-repeating-alerts/63414

Hmmm, maybe automation to script....

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/script/

and the set-variable:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-save-a-value/140294/14

Here's an argument that you should use input_variables for this type of thing:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/any-suggested-methods-or-best-practices-for-storing-variables/3399

Right now it just shows what's happening right now. Not really what I am going for.

So, groups are what are called for here, it seems.

And it seems that Home Assistant will have already have some courtesy of Hue. Generally - I want the config to be defined in HA, not in the Hue. I have no particular problem with the Hue generally, but I don't want to build automation on top of a platform which I have such limited control over - I.e. can't see the source, can't backup the config, don't have assured access to APIs, have to rely on support that's fundamentally unaccountable to me.

Turning it on / off would be cool. Especially being able to turn it off (end of night routines).