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Recipe - Home Alone

Purpose

Vary how and which notifications are made if someone is home on their own.

Implementation

Uses a Scenario and the automatic occupancy checks that are enabled using mobile discovery when recipients are defined in the config. AutoArm or custom automations set the Alarm Control Panel state to night.

Example Configuration

recipients:
    - person: person.joe_mcphee
      email: joe.mcphee@home.mail.net
      phone_number: "+3294924848"
    - person: person.jabilee_sokata
      email: jab@sokata.family.net
scenarios:
    lone_night:
        alias: only one person home at night
        conditions:
            condition: and
            conditions:
            - "{{notification_priority not in ['critical','high','low']}}"
            - "{{'LONE_HOME' in occupancy}}"
            - condition: state
              entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm_control
              state:
              - armed_night
        delivery:
            - apple_push
            - alexa_announce
            - plain_email
            - chimes

Variations

  • Determine night time using the sun entity, or a daylight sensor device, rather than alarm status.
  • Check for 2 or more people at home
    "{{'ALL_HOME' in occupancy or 'MULTI_HOME' in occupancy}}"