I wonder if there is a standard alarm clock integration to choose in Home Assistant. There seen to be quite some around, but many of them seem to be abandoned. Some of them are vibe coded and it seems that the author lost interest soon after uploading it to Github
What i like to do is placing home assistant capable esphome media players in the rooms of the kids and give them independant wake times via the Home Assistant Dashboard. Of course it would cool to play Stuff from Music Assistant etc. for wake up. So what is the way to go here?
Or do i dont even need an integration and only a blueprint? I am kind of lost.
I started using New custom integration - HA Alarm Clock as the alarm clock to get my son up for school. It supports playing various media files, and there’s another integration (see the write up in the thread) that can be used to get more “classic” alarm clock noises if you want. This one works well with the HA Voice Assistant PE that I put next to his bed.
It’s been working well. I currently just have the alarm scheduled for every weekday, but I plan on making an update to my “daylight alarm” automation that I put together that slowly turns up his room lights on days he has school. My intent is to, on school days, have the audible alarm go off at the same time his lights are supposed to hit max wake up brightness, but only on school days so my automation needs to program the alarm at the same time it starts the daylight alarm sequence.
You don’t really need a dedicated alarm-clock integration for this use case. Home Assistant’s native helpers + automations + media players are enough. Music Assistant is actually a very good fit here.
Oh, I’m aware that my use case doesn’t need an alarm clock integration. But the one I linked gives some nice features that I don’t have to go developing myself. I just have to come up with a way to make it get autoset on days that have the right calendar entries
I created an alarm clock using an automation and a Home Assistant hosted html page that I pointed an old NS Panel Pro to. The NS Panel Pro is mounted in a desktop mount and powered from wall socket and now I have a Home Assistant powered bedside clock and alarm. My goodnight script then sets the right alarm time based on calendar entries.
