technicalpickles / picklehome-homeassistant-config

homeassistant configuration for my house
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Bed time never triggers if someone is out of town #7

Open technicalpickles opened 6 years ago

technicalpickles commented 6 years ago

Right now, if I'm traveling for work or whatever, the good night mode never triggers. This is because it relies on bedtime sensor which checks if everyone is in bed, and that wouldn't ever fire when I'm away.

One idea I have is to have a binary sensor to indicate if I'm traveling. The bedtime sensor could be updated to only return true if one person is bed if the other is away.

Maybe the google calendar component could detect and toggle that 'away' sensor?

Having a way to trigger good night (or any of the house states), would help mitigate this some. Possibly exposing each as a switch to Alexa, and then making an Alexa Routine so you can say "Alexa, Good night".