I’ve been helping my dad get into Home Assistant. He loves the idea of automating things around the house, but when he wants to add some new automations it becomes a pretty time consuming process planning out triggers, conditions and edge cases. So I started building an add-on that lets him describe what should be true and the system can translate it to logic and handle the rest:
- "The garage door should never be open for longer than 10 minutes at night " builds an automation continuously enforces it
- “The house is ‘ready for bed’ when all doors are locked, thermostat is 68, and downstairs lights are off” defines a value once that can be reuse d everywhere
- “The alarm should arm when everyone leaves after sunset” debug history will show when and why/why not the rule executed. I really want good traceability so he can actually see why something didn’t happen.
I’m not done with this project yet so I won’t post any github links, but does anything like this already exist? Curious if this would be useful to anyone beyond my dad.