New HA User here - Help with initial config

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Hi Everyone,

New HA user here been using it about a week and I have been super impressed. I do already have a smartthings Hub and Hubitat Hub as well as some hue lights, I am running HA O\S on Hyper-V running on a small HP micro server.

My Smartthings and Hubitat are using hub connect which is allowing me to share some devices from Smartthings to Hubitat, smartthings has no automations it us literally just so I can use some wifi plugs that are only supports on smartthings, all my automations are currently set up on the hubitat hub using webcore and things do seem to work pretty well for me but there is always room for improvement.

As well as these 2 hubs sharing devices they also share any mode changes, so if presence for all users changed to not present then away mode would be set and synced between the 2 hubs, same for home mode, night mode ect.

Now reading online it seems HA does not have the functionality of using these modes but from what I can gather I should be using input Booleans instead, so I have created the following input bools

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Ideally what I am trying to achieve here to have the same modes as I have on the other systems and have them syncing up between the hubs. When one of above input bools is true\on the rest should be false\off and was wondering if anyone had managed to achieve anything similar?

Currently I am using jason0x43 - hacs-hubitat Integration which is working great. I eventually want to move all of my automations away from WebCore on the Hubitat hub and move them over to HA and just use the Hubitat hub as a ZigBee co-ordinator but I am currently finding the learning curve here very steep compare to the hubitat and smart things systems, I have been running HA for around 2 weeks now and it took me most of that time to get all my devices imported and working on the dashboard but I have yet still to build any automations or scenes.

Any advice or input is greatly appreciated!

Edit: I did mean to say I can see these sensors but not sure how to utilize them or the best way to start building an automation to achieve what I am trying to do.

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Also it needs to work both ways as one I move some automation into HA they will be disabled in Webcore on Hubitat

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Instead of trying to create a mirror for the Hubitat’s current mode, why not just use that sensor.hub_mode as you would use the mirror?

If you really want to do it in the way you described, you’d have to set up an automation that is triggered by a change in the state of sensor.hub_mode. Then, depending on what the state changed to, you can turn on or off the various helper booleans. This would end up being a bit complicated and would ultimately be unnecessary, I think.

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Thanks, this actually makes more sense.

So essentially in my automation’s (that I havent built yet) I can refer to that sensor and use the current mode it is set too?

I will try some testing with this today and let you know if it work but great idea, thank you!

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Done some quick fire tests here and it looks like I can utilise the sensor and change the mode from HA if I wanted too as well, this simplifies things so much for me here.

For anyone else looking to do something similar the 2 following entities are used

sensor.hub_mode for checking the mode
sensor.hub_mode for changing the mode

They can be added to the love lace dashboard and confirmed they sync across both platforms when changing.

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Pretty much. You can use the mode changing from one mode to another as a trigger itself, or use a different trigger and the current mode as a condition.

Glad you got something figured out, and welcome to HA!

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Thank you for the welcome and the guidance here, I really appreciate it!