Summon Husband Automation
Now that I have my zigbee radio and home assistant all set up, I ordered a pile of Aqara Zigbee switches and sensors to play with. It’s my seventh wedding anniversary tomorrow so I thought I’d start by making a home automation my wife requested. She wanted a button that would politely interrupt me and call me down to dinner on a night where she is cooking so she doesn’t have to figure out where I am in the house, walk upstairs or downstairs, and potentially have to get my attention through noise cancelling headphones.
The automation will work like this.
┌────────────────────┐
│ │
│ Action: │
┌───────────┐ ┌────────────────┐ │ Mobile Alert │
│ │ │ ├───────►│ │
│ Summon │ │ Broadcast │ └────────────────────┘
│ Husband ├────►│ Event: │
│ Button │ │ HUSBANDSUMMON │ ┌─────────────────────────┐
│ │ │ ├───────►│ │
└───────────┘ └────────────────┘ │ Condition: │
│ Office Motion Sensor │
│ Action: │
│ Lights Scene │
│ │
└─────────────────────────┘
The first automation receives the button push:
alias: SummonDaveButtonPress
description: ""
trigger:
- device_id: 17ee1b48322c96533e45586a5afac396
domain: deconz
platform: device
type: remote_button_short_press
subtype: turn_on
condition: []
action:
- event: HUSBANDSUMMON
event_data: {}
mode: single
I can use the event to have multiple actions hang off the event with different conditions gating the trigger. The first mobile notification should always trigger and I set it to bust through my phone’s mute setting:
alias: SummonDaveMobileAlert
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: HUSBANDSUMMON
condition: []
action:
- service: notify.mobile_app_davephone
data:
message: SPOUSE is Calling You
data:
push:
interruption-level: critical
presentation_options: alert
mode: single
The second thing I do is modify the lights in my office if the motion sensor is detecting me in the office.
alias: SummonDaveLightsSummon
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: HUSBANDSUMMON
condition:
- type: is_motion
condition: device
device_id: 73eedef3ac5f348c408297424c687e9a
entity_id: binary_sensor.presence_3
domain: binary_sensor
action:
- service: scene.turn_on
target:
entity_id: scene.officezone_summon
metadata: {}
mode: single
The scene is configured separately, this one happens to be in the Philips Hue app.
