Guest Mode - A switch in Home Assistant that alters my automations when I have guests staying
In this video, I talk about one of my Home Assistant automations: Guest Mode.
Guest Mode is a switch, when activated, alters the behaviour of some of my automations.
For example, when there is nobody home, the lights in the house will operation in a pseudo random fashion to simulate occupancy. If I'm not home, but another extended family member is, for example, I don't want the lights turning on and off by themselves! This automation will now check for Guest Mode before it turns on.
For those interested, the lighting automation uses this NodeRed add-on:
https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-r...
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00:00 - Start
00:06 - What is Guest Mode?
00:16 - Using Presence in Automations
01:23 - The problem with presence based automations!
02:26 - What I've done
06:18 - Implementing the UI
06:51 - A real example of guest mode
07:40 - Improvements?
08:50 - Wrapping Up