Generates an automatic, token-cheap summary of last changs in your smart home areas during a configurable look-back window (1 h – 24 h), to your favourite LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, local Llama 2…) for a human-friendly digest then posts the result as a persistent notification.
Features
- Conveys a periodic pulse of “what’s up right now”
- Time-window reports – 30 min → Daily
- Token-aware prompt shortening
- Area / domain / state filters
- Raw or summary output modes
- Works with any Conversation agent
- Generates a professional summary of smart-home activity during the last X hours (default 24 h;).
- Sends the result as a persistent notification.
Installation
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Copy the raw URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Oshayr/ha-heartbeat-blueprint/refs/heads/main/automation/heartbeat.yaml
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In Home Assistant → Settings › Automations & Scenes › Blueprints › Import Blueprint → paste the URL.
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Create a new automation from the imported blueprint, adjust the settings, and you’re done.
Inputs explained
| Title | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Run every | How often the report should run (30min, 1 hour, 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours) | 24 hours |
| Look-back period (h) | How many hours of activity to summarise (1 – 24) | 24 |
| Conversation agent | Pick the Conversation / LLM agent that should receive the prompt | chatgpt |
| Max prompt length (chars) | Absolute ceiling for the size of the text sent to the LLM. 1 token ≈ 4 chars, so 4 096 chars ≈ 1 024 tokens | 4096 |
Advanced settings
| Title | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| extra_prompt | Extra LLM instructions | empty |
| Output mode | summary → run the LLM and show its summary, raw → skip the LLM call and show the activity list verbatim | summary |
| Message ID | The message Id for the LLM chat and the notificatins | HeartBeat |
| Skip notification | Skip notification when nothing changed | false |
Filters
| Title | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Domains to ignore | List of Domains to be ignored | ‘sensor’, ‘automation’, ‘script’, ‘camera’ |
| States to ignore | List of States to be ignored | ‘unavailable’, ‘unknown’, ‘’ |
| Areas to ignore | List of Areas to be ignored | Empty |
| Entities to ignore | List of Entities to be ignored | Empty |
This is only my second blueprint, please let me know of any improvments, fixes that can be done.
