Going away on holiday

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Hi all…

So was new to HA about 7 months back and boy did i need lots of support, and i got it in spades…

Been living in HA dream world, dashbaord set up, automations running like clock work (bar a few sensors droppingn out) ever since.

Question i have and i cant think how to answer is what to do when leave the country.

I dont currently have home assistant cloud and the few other times ive been away onto google home app and turned everything off manually.

Going away, Id still like some lights to come on but not them all…

Do you guys have any other routines set up etc etc

Looking for some help…

Thanks in advance

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I just wrote a automation that turns some light on every day and sends notifications if any motion sensor detects.

It’s called holiday mode and is disabled the whole year except holidays.

Definitely not the most sophisticated way, but it just works and is easy to put together in minutes…

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I did a quick search and haven’t found anything that is ready to use.

As @BebeMischa is explaining: you can create an automation with the things you want to happen.
Add a helper which you toggle, based on whether you are on holiday (or not), and use that as a condition for that automation.

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maybe have a look at this Presence Simulation Integration…GitHub - slashback100/presence_simulation: Home Assistant Presence Simulation
does the trick for me in tandem with my own automation to turn various things on/off that won’t be used while I’m away (automation is similar to what BebeMischa is saying)

I also borrowed a few ideas from this post Random Light Schedule - #53 by GrizzlyAK to randomly turn on some lights that maybe wouldn’t normally be on (so aren’t caught by Presence Simulation)

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Hi Tomas r smith,
Plug this in your search engine to find a lot of possibilities in the forum.

site:community.home-assistant.io vacation lighting

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Wow, a lot of great suggestions to upgrade my current setup!

Now i have a helper that i set when i go away. And every automation coupled to button pres/motion sensors or anything else that only happens due to a human being present, runs a script that alerts me (and when i actually expect a friend to come over I change that script to do some fun stuff :wink: ). Quite easy to setup and add to current automation.

For automating lights on and off i’m still on node red with the “light scheduler” node and i have a custom schedule that triggers the lights when i’m away. comming from a full node red setup this was quite easy to implement for me. and since the “light scheduler” allows for only trigger when sun is down and a random interval on the set times it works just as well in the winter as in the summer.

But since I’m migrating away from node red, i will definitely be looking into Presence Simulation it looks promising!