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Spotlight: Presence Detection

Home Assistant Podcast

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Making Home Assistants Presence Detection Not So Binary

Home automation is basically, you're already in two names. It's all yaml. You can just drop the automations into your home assistant and put the input selects in there as well. I have a post called making home assistants presence detection, not so binary. And then I do some logic based on how many minutes of device has been home or not home. So for example, if I'm away from, I'm marked as a way in home assistant,. In the first five minutes, I will be set to just arrived. That allows the home to know, okay, feels just got home, let's start doing some things as if he just got home for the first time.

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