I’ve looked at Home Remote but was hoping for something a bit more “out of the box”. I try to channel everything though HA and avoid controlling devices directly, but I suppose it could be done with Home Remote via MQTT. You can launch Home Assist and it just works - the tiles are formatted based on the domain/configuration of the underlying HA entity. Spend 15 minutes customizing your dashboard and you’ll have a solid UI for HA. If I were to invest the time to configure something fancy, I’d turn to either HADashboard through AppDaemon or a custom HA Floorplan and run it in a kiosk mode browser. Some users have posted quite extravagant floor plans. Low priority though, since most of my controls are now going through Alexa/Google.
The proximity sensor does become nearly useless without the native Wink apo. It appears that Wink implemented something fancier to extend the distance, perhaps leveraging the light sensor and microphone as well to trigger the screen.
Lastly, I won’t be of any help regarding Macs, sorry. But if useful, below is my eventghost configuration that publishes when my computer is either active or idle for 2.5 minutes (window’s 1 minute “idle” definition with a 90 second delay added on top). It also listens for commands to sleep both the computer and my monitors. Tag me in a comment on another feed if you have other questions. For linux systems, see the hibernation example at the bottom of the Wake on LAN doc to shutdown via SSH. Come to think of it, using HA to reboot the relay remotely may be a temporary solution to the issue some of us are having with MQTT dropping offline…
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