Thomas V's Home-Assistant config

What do I want to control?

• All lights
• Heating
• Security (doors, windows, cameras)
• TV & Amp
• Kitchen safety switch

What do I want to monitor?

• Temperatures
• Indoor/outdoor climate (humidity, CO2, etc)
• Motion (detectors and cameras)
• NAS
• UPS
• Washing machine

Notifications

• TTS on Sonos / Amazon Echo
• Slack for mobile/PC

What do I want to automate?

• Inside Lights
  • Lights on in the morning (when movement after 05:00)
  • Lights off after the sun rises (when it is light enough inside)
  • Lights on in the evening when people are home / coming home (when it's getting dark or when people are coming home after it's dark)
  • Lights off in the night (after 23:00, TV off and no movement)
  • Nightlight (After lights are off but before 05:00)
  • Lightswitches in bedrooms
  • Automatic lights when movement in Dressing Room, Basement, Office (dim), Master Hall (dim)
  • Automatic lights in Secondary Hall (
  • Option for guest mode (No turning off the lights automatically)
• Outside Lights
  • Turn lights on when sun is going down
  • Turn lights off when everyone is sleeping
  • Turn lights on when movement outside in the night
• Away-button (physical and virtual)
  • Everything off
  • Notifications if doors/windows are opened
• Notification from outside cams if movement detected when nobody home or between 22:00-06:00
• Vacation mode
  • Lights turn on/off automatically
  • Notifications if movement detected from detectors or cameras
  • Notifications if doors/windows are opened
• Enter movie-mode automatically when Kodi is playing (Netflix?)
• Voice commands to Alexa for setting modes and scenes + controlling lights
• Notification when washing machine is done (
• Automatically turn off kitchen safety switch after use (less than 1 Watt for more than 5 minutes)