My Home Assistant configuration… IT'S ALIVE

ntalekt · October 26, 2017, 10:33pm

And here we go.

Automations

Notification Audio

TTS “Good Morning” notification over all Sonos speakers. Includes templated date, birthday countdown, weather, to-do’s etc.
TTS “Welcome home User” notification over all Sonos speakers.
TTS notification when User arrives at specific Zones.
TTS notification when User leaves specific zones which includes travel time home.
TTS notification if the garage door has been open for 30 minutes with no motion in garage.
TTS test notification

Notification Text

Pushbullet notification when new Home Assistant version is available on PyPI.
Pushbullet notification when Nest thermostats go into Home/Away modes.
Pushbullet notification when critical network devices go offline.
Pushbullet notification if the garage door is left open after we left the house.
Pushbullet notification if the garage door is opened and no one is home.
Pushbullet notification if the garage door has been open for 30 minutes with no motion in garage.
Pushbullet notification test.
Pushbullet when SSL certificate expiration sensor <= 10 days.
Pushbullet when any battery sensor falls below 20%
Pushbullet for a failed login attempt.

Notification Visual

LG WebOS TV Notification when Ring Pro Doorbell detects motion or is pressed.

Lights

Exterior lights (GE Z-Wave Plus Dimmer 14294) on 5 minutes before sunset.
Exterior lights (GE Z-Wave Plus Dimmer 14294) off 30 minutes after sunrise.
Exterior lights (GE Z-Wave Plus Dimmer 14294) dim to 35% at 9:00pm
Interior Media Center lights (Yeelight WIFI RGB Strip) using Amazon Echo Dot via Emulated Hue Bridge.
Interior loft lights (Hue White Bulb) using Amazon Echo Dot via Emulated Hue Bridge.
Holiday interior lighting leveraging Google Calendar Event to define the holiday.
Holiday interior lighting using Amazon Echo Dot via Emulated Hue Bridge.
~~Interior loft lights (Hue White Bulb) on at 30% 60 minutes before sunset if home.~~
~~Interior loft lights (Hue White Bulb) off at 8:10pm.~~
~~Interior Media Center lights (Yeelight WIFI RGB Strip) on at sunset.~~
~~Interior Media Center lights (Yeelight WIFI RGB Strip) off at 8:00pm.~~
~~Interior Media Center lights (Yeelight WIFI RGB Strip) on if motion detected after 8:00pm.~~
~~Interior Media Center lights (Yeelight WIFI RGB Strip) off if motion not detected for 5min after 8:00pm.~~

Doorbell

Exterior lights to 100% if Ring Pro Doorbell detects motion or is pressed after 9:00pm.
Exterior lights back to 35% after 30 minutes after doorbell motion or press.

Media

Start Harmony Hub activity if user selects from HA UI input_select.
Update input_select status if physical Harmony Hub remote is used to start activity.
Start playing music on Sonos PLAY:1 speakers if user selects music station from input_select.
Start playing music on Sonos PLAY:1 speakers if user starts music station using Amazon Echo Dot via Emulated Hue Bridge.
Start Harmony Hub activity using Amazon Echo Dot via Emulated Hue Bridge.
Power off Harmony Hub activity using Amazon Echo Dot via Emulated Hue Bridge.

Sonos

Reset/Regroup all Sonos PLAY:1 speakers at 6:00am every morning.
Group all Sonos’ button.

Occupancy

If motion is detected via BRUH Automation multisensor or Amcrest cameras turn on input_boolean (used in binary_sensor for occupancy tracking).
If no motion is detected after certain period of time turn off input_boolean.

Sleep time

Turn off master TV after 30 minutes via Harmony Hub.

System

Run script to collect Cox Internet usage hourly.
Clean the TTS cache weekly.

Vacation

Turn vacation mode on when household is gone for 24 hours.
Put Nest Thermostats in away mode when vacation mode active.

Scripts/Customizations

Life360 integration via shell mqtt broker found here
Home Assistant mysql database size sensor found here
Cox internet usage web parser script found here
WAN test script found here

Devices

Climate

Nest Thermostat x2

Lighting

Sensor

Camera

Media

Amazon Echo Dot x2 (via Emulated Hue Bridge)
Sonos PLAY:1 x3
Harmony Hub x2
NVIDIA SHIELD TV
LG 65UH8500 65" TV

Network

Location

Life360 Location Tracking App

Platform

Interface

ItownTech · October 26, 2017, 11:52pm

it’s very cool

sparkydave · October 27, 2017, 2:37am

I really need to clean up my yaml files to as neat and tidy as your ones!

johnnyletrois · October 27, 2017, 5:50pm

Thanks for sharing! What are you running HomeAssistant on? I have a QNAP NAS, and I run HomeAssistant in a Docker container. I need to figure out how to use git for version control.

bachoo786 · October 27, 2017, 8:47pm

Hello bud thanks for this lovely share.

Quick question how do you use the life360 app to track your family? Does it work well with HA and does it give you real time updates?

ntalekt · October 27, 2017, 9:45pm

No problem, glad to share as I’ve gotten a lot of help from others who have shared. I run HA on a Raspberry Pi3 and it runs great. Github is pretty easy to figure out, just make sure your .gitignore is correct so you aren’t committing any secrets.

Yes, it’s been working great. Basically I just install the app on my wife and my phone and setup zones in HA. Using the Life360 integration broker leverages the Owntracks HA platform and updates the device tracker with your GPS coords, then the HA zones does the rest in updating your devices tracker status. I’ve been using Life360 for about 4 years and the HA integration for about 4 months and it’s been very stable.

bachoo786 · October 27, 2017, 9:56pm

Nice to hear!

Sorry to bother you with the questions but how often does the location update? and does it drain the battery in your phone?

ntalekt · October 27, 2017, 10:04pm

From the app perspective I think when it’s in the background it will update every 5-minutes by default. But if you open the app it will automatically refresh. If you have drive tracking mode enabled it will update in real-time when driving. I’ve never had any issues with battery because most newer mobile OS’s handle location updates pretty efficiently.

I have the HA life360 broker fetching location every 3-minutes.

bachoo786 · October 27, 2017, 10:08pm

That sounds good. Are you using the custom component or the script?

Is there anyway you could write up a how to guide on this?

Thanks.

ntalekt · October 27, 2017, 10:46pm

You have to setup the script and then setup the owntracks component to receive the data.

Read through the Life360 integration thread and let me know if you have any questions: Life 360 support

Jokerigno · October 27, 2017, 11:11pm

Thank you for sharing!

ntalekt · October 30, 2017, 2:00am

No problem. Hope it helps.

ntalekt · November 10, 2017, 3:35pm

Updated

New Devices:

Ordered Devices

Xiaomi Mi Smart WiFi Gateway
Xiaomi Aqara Temperature Humidity Sensor
Xiaomi Aqara Window Door Sensor
Ceptics US Travel Plug Adapter to convert the gateway’s plug to US standard.

New Automations:

Lights - Interior Master Turn on at Sunset if Home
Lights - Interior Master Turn off at 845PM
Notification Text - Garage Door - Left It Open
Notification Text - Garage Door - Opened And No One Is Home
Notification Audio- Garage Door - Open For 30min
Location - Set Garage Notification On If 1 Mile Away
Location - Set Garage Notication Off If Close To Home
Guest - Set House Guest Away after 5 Mins
Guest - Set House Guest Home after 10 Mins
Holiday Lighting

New Components

Google Calendar Event Used for determining the holiday for lighting.
Yeelight Wifi Bulb New RGB LED strips
Proximity Helps determine if we are close to home to disable garage notifications.
Ring Binary Camera
Deluge Sensor
Pi-Hole Sensor
Emulated Hue Bridge

bachoo786 · November 10, 2017, 4:08pm

May I ask what is pi hole and how have you used it ? I fail to understand on their website.

Thanks.

ntalekt · November 10, 2017, 4:37pm

@bachoo786

https://pi-hole.net/ is software you run on your Raspberry Pi in order to turn it into a local DNS server. The use-case is:

To block known ad serving domains at a network level
To cache forward lookups for faster browsing
Monitoring and statistics

Thanks.

ikifar2015 · November 10, 2017, 5:56pm

How did you do the internet usage script?

ntalekt · November 10, 2017, 8:02pm

It’s documented pretty well in my GitHub repo. Let me know if you have any questions.

github.com

ntalekt/Cox_Data_Usage/blob/master/README.md

Cox_Data_Usage
==============
Python web scraper designed to return Cox Communications internet usage data for [Home Assistant](https://home-assistant.io/).

Home Assistant Card Example
---------
![Alt text](/img/HA_Example.JPG?raw=true)

Configuration
---------
Modify the `username` and `password` variables to match your Cox main account. Update the `json_file` variable if required.

Put `cox_usage.py` somewhere inside your Home Assistant configuration directory.

```
cox_user = "username"
cox_pass = "password"
json_file = "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/cox_usage.json"
```
Automation

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jarrah · November 14, 2017, 11:32am

Thank you very much for sharing your config! I’ve been using HA on and off for the past year and haven’t really got round to organising everything properly, however your setup has helped push me in the right direction and I’m now using yours as a template for my HA! I think it was the way you summarised your environment in the first post that grabbed me, so thanks for that!

I too have ordered a load of Xiaomi sensors so I look forward to seeing how you integrate them.

ntalekt · November 14, 2017, 3:13pm

Thank you for the nice comments, I did the same with @geekoftheweek’s repo. I had installed and played with HA for a while but once I read through his configs I got a lot of inspiration. Here is his repo: https://github.com/geekofweek/homeassistant

I’m really excited to get the Xiaomi sensors. I’ll definitely update the thread when I start playing around with them.

geekoftheweek · November 14, 2017, 3:36pm

Thanks for the shoutout. I found it was a lot easier for me when I started to look at working examples so I thought I would do the same. Glad it has been useful to people.