AI-Powered Smart Home for Mental Health – Advanced Home Assistant Integration

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on an AI-driven behavioral tracking system designed to recognize trauma patterns, predict spirals before they happen, and proactively intervene based on biometric and environmental data. Now, I’m looking to integrate it with Home Assistant to take it to the next level.

:earth_africa: What I’m Building:

I’ve developed an AI system that tracks emotional and behavioral patterns over time, mapping spirals, trauma responses, and daily fluctuations to provide real-time interventions based on past and present data. The AI already:
:white_check_mark: Recognizes emotional patterns & spirals through text-based tracking.
:white_check_mark: Uses emoji-based microtracking for shorthand emotional check-ins.
:white_check_mark: Logs major trauma markers & long-term behavior shifts.
:white_check_mark: Processes historical event logs to anticipate breakdowns before they happen.

:rocket: What I Want to Achieve with Home Assistant:

I want to bridge smart home automation with AI-driven trauma tracking so my home system can recognize behavioral & physiological warning signs and notify me before a full shutdown, spiral, or panic event occurs.

:pushpin: Example Use Cases:

:small_blue_diamond: Movement Tracking: If I haven’t moved for 6+ hours, AI prompts a check-in (“Ryan, you haven’t moved all day. Are you zoning out?”).
:small_blue_diamond: Location-Based Triggers: If I travel to a place tied to past trauma (ex: visiting my ex), AI recognizes this pattern and reminds me to mentally armor up before going.
:small_blue_diamond: Heart Rate Monitoring: If my HR spikes & movement stops, AI flags a possible panic or freeze response and suggests grounding techniques.
:small_blue_diamond: Seasonal Depression Tracking: AI cross-references mood patterns with weather station data to preemptively recognize seasonal affective disorder shifts.
:small_blue_diamond: TV & Sleep Monitoring: If I start binge-watching TV for 6+ hours with no movement, AI recognizes a shutdown response and suggests a pattern break.

:link: The Home Assistant Integration Plan

The goal is to build a seamless automation pipeline where:
:floppy_disk: Home Assistant logs (heart rate, movement, sleep, location, etc.) → Webhooks → Auto-updated .docx log file.
:open_file_folder: AI reads that log during daily processing to track behavioral trends & spiral markers.
:loudspeaker: Home Assistant sends real-time notifications when certain trauma-based triggers are met.
:brain: AI provides proactive interventions based on past patterns + current data.

:hammer_and_wrench: Current Challenges & Questions:

:one: Best way to structure logs for AI-friendly processing? (JSON, structured text?)
:two: Most efficient method to push logs into a .docx (LibreOffice) or database file via Node-RED?
:three: Webhook vs. MQTT for sending structured Home Assistant data into AI processing?
:four: Has anyone already built anything similar, or does this require a custom integration?

:bulb: Why This Matters:

This isn’t just about “tracking data.” This is about creating a mental health-aware smart home that sees patterns, anticipates spirals, and helps intervene before things collapse.

I know this is outside the normal scope of Home Assistant discussions, but I also know this community is full of some of the smartest automation minds in the world. If anyone has ideas, experience, or even theories on how to bridge AI with Home Assistant for real-time behavioral tracking, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

:fire: This could be the start of a completely new way to use smart home automation—not just for convenience, but for personalized, proactive mental health support.

Thanks in advance—I’ll be checking back often!

Ryan https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-devoe-95ab33352

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Please don’t do this.

Smart home automation is far from being a mature technology and AI is in its infancy. Home Assistant is built and maintained by enthusiasts: it changes all the time, often doesn’t work and its developers sometimes lose interest. It should never be used in a life-critical context.

You could do a lot of harm.

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My actual AI system is already fully devolped and works fine on my computer and my phone. I am actually demo’ing it tomorrow to researchers at Griffith University.

This is just a fun integration that can further refine and track data for my currently running system nothing life-critical…

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Is that you on GitHub?

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My 0.02.

As with any tech there is a potential for good use and exploring its use is necessary to advance. I also think things like these should be explored. However especially with mental health I’d be incredibly careful and self critical of actual capabilities. Because this stuff is not life critical ready. Not anywhere close. Ha is not life critical ready.

Ok to have a tool that logs and checks in and makes notes sure.

Calling it a mental health support anything is where I draw the line. Not because ai capability. Because humans. Someone will over-ascribe purpose to the ai and bad stuff happens. I’m of very strong opinion that something like this should be driven from medical pros and people who also have a support system watching it.

So yes I can see the potential if done incredibly carefully and slowly an with guardrails. But. I think I’d go a different way.

Good luck with your project!

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Again as I mentioned in a previous post…nothing life critical here. Just wanting to collect data for an already working framework, nothing more. Pst, I’m a Mental Health Professional with 27 years of experience working in trauma fields. I don’t need a lecture on ethics regarding trauma-informed care. This is currently just a personal prototype that was pitched to and just picked up by Griffith University for research testing. As I mentioned earlier I’m just wanting to collect data, and expand on an already working framwork…as Dr. Luke Balcombe was interested how it could be implemented via home automation systems as well.

I’ve been working with HA/Home Automation for over 10 years and figured I could get useful answers in here but I guess that’s not a thing anymore.

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Nope seeing that this is a mental health system, I wouldn’t never list it as open source as that could create a lot of liability and legal issues, globally. Besides if that is still even in development, my IP Docs, timestamped with a “poor man’s copyright”, are before that project began. As I mentioned in a previous reply this is being picked up by actual Universities for testing not to throw it on Github with zero care for the users.