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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/neiram44 on 2024-03-10 16:27:39.
Hi!
I’m discovering HA. I want to have specific behavior when no one is home. How do you signal no one is home? I cannot do it via phone because we put our phone in airplane mode during night plus sometimes we have friends home I don’t want to register everyone’s phone.
I need a basic button to say OK everyone is out.
Today I have a IKEA Dirigera setup + Google Nest.
I have a couple of unused ESP8266 laying around…
Any suggestion?
I would just use the old “Home changes to 0” state, and add a conditional for night (not night) and another for a triggered timer. I call my timer “Nanny mode”, and it just blocks ‘away from home’ automations while it’s running. I just need to remember to hit a button on my dashboard once a day or so, starting the 16h timer.
Here’s my “set the alarm and lower the blinds when we leave, and put them back when we get home” auto:
You managed to solve two problems for that I hadn’t even articulated yet, thanks for sharing!