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My Home Assistant configuration & documentation.
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Is Florence staying? 👨‍👧🤟 #171

Closed jcallaghan closed 4 years ago

jcallaghan commented 4 years ago

I have my daughter two to three nights a week and sometimes more but the schedule is very changeable. When she is staying we have created some fun automation for lights among others and I also track some insights #157 when she has stayed.

I mostly know when Florence is staying through the use of my calendar but there are other signals such as her room becomes active as well as her iPad is used. There are other signals such as me entering a zone where I am likely to have picked her up or dropped her off. I use these signals to turn on an input_boolean helper to indicate if she is staying and then can use this in automations.

With the help from an actionable notification that I send myself, I am able to toggle this helper on and off. I use this with one main automation to that triggers when certain states change indicating Florence is over or has left. I also use a variant of this when entering zones that I have created that likely relate to me picking her up or dropping her off at school or at her mothers for example.

jcallaghan commented 4 years ago
jcallaghan commented 4 years ago

HomeAssistant Mobile App notification documentation - https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notifications-basic

Introduction | Home Assistant Companion Docs
The mobileapp notify platform accepts the standard title, message and target parameters used by the notify platform. The mobile\app notify platform supports targets as services. As long as you granted notifications permissions during setup, you will find all your devices listed as targets for the notify service with names prefixed notify.mobileapp followed by the Device ID of you device. This can be checked in the App Configuration menu of the sidebar and defaults to the name specified in the General>About within the iOS settings app or under About>Phone in Android settings (with spaces and non alphanumeric characters replaced by underscores). A requirement of the notify platform is that you must specify at least message
jcallaghan commented 4 years ago

HomeAssistant input_boolean integration documentation - https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/input_boolean/

Home Assistant
Input Boolean
Instructions on how to integrate the Input Boolean integration into Home Assistant.
jcallaghan commented 4 years ago

HomeAssistant Mobile App documentation - https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/core

Feature overview | Home Assistant Companion Docs
The Home Assistant Companion App provides a convenient way to view and control your Home Assistant instance however it also extends the power of your instance by allowing your device to act as a data source. The Home Assistant Companion App adds numerous sensors (such as battery and network status among others), creates a device_tracker entity to allow location updates to be sent from the device and also provides action shortcuts to trigger scripts or automations.