Home Occupancy Toggle via Unifi

Configuration Blueprints
1

Hi all,

I’m looking for some help to figure out why this automation isnt working.
Basically my goal is to Toggle a Home Occupancy input boolean to off when every member of the house is out.
And toggle it back on once at least 1 person is home.

This is what I have for my Home Empty but its not working:

alias: Home Empty
description: Toggle Home Empty switch when no one is Home
trigger: []
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: person.x
    state: Away
    for: '00:00:30'
  - condition: and
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: person.x
        state: Away
        for: '00:00:30'
action:
  - service: input_boolean.turn_off
    data: {}
    entity_id: input_boolean.home_occupied
mode: single

I couldn’t figure out a good trigger, was hoping it would bypass this but guess not?
As I wanted the trigger to be for when everyone is out.

2

You can just create a group with the two persons. It will have the state away when both are away and home, when at least one person is home.

3

I literally just thought about that!

Let me test that out, thanks!

4

So I just tried that

alias: Home Empty
description: Toggle Home Empty switch when no one is Home
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.awesome_people
    from: Home
    to: Away
condition: []
action:
  - service: input_boolean.turn_off
    data: {}
    entity_id: input_boolean.home_occupied
mode: single

Still doesnt work… Home Occupied switch isnt going off.

5

So I ended up going about this differently.

I added Awesome People as a condition to the alarm enablement instead.

Think this is working.

Well for some reason it works as a condition.
But if I want to create an alarm based on away it doesnt work:

alias: Set alarm when away
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.awesome_people
    from: home
    to: away
condition: []
action:
  - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away
    data: {}
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.yale_smart_alarm
mode: single

I’m so confused.

6

So this work to disarm.
Every time I change from Away to Home, this triggers and I can hear my alarm trying to disarm (even tho it wasnt armed)

alias: Disable alarm when home
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.awesome_people
    to: home
condition: []
action:
  - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_disarm
    data: {}
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.yale_smart_alarm
mode: single

But doing the same just reverse will not arm it…
Why?!

7

It’s not_home instead if away.

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8

Ah awesome let me try that… thank you

9

You can see the real state name under Developer Tools -> States.

10

not_home worked!
My alarm triggered perfectly.

Thanks so much

11

Having gone on a similar journey, I discovered that zone.home maintains a count of people whose device trackers have them “home”.

So now I arm my alarm (by turning on other automations) if the state of zone.home changes to 0, and disarm it if zone.home changes from 0.

12

That occupancy count has been added since 2021…