Bas Nijholt's Home Assistant config files

Using my own iOS Dark Mode Theme.

My cool AppDaemon apps

• Sunrise emulator app 🌅
• Wake up with Spotify app that slowly ramps the volume 📢

Noteworthy (useful) automations

• Alarm clock that uses the AppDaemon volume ramp and sunrise app ⏰
• Automatic lovelace.json to lovelace-ui.yaml converter for version control 🤖
• Controlling music using the Xiaomi Aqara Magic Cube ∛
• Controlling the lights (hue and brightness) using the Xiaomi Aqara Magic Cube ∛
• Guest mode that turns off automations
• Vacation mode
• Presence detection in different rooms based on various binary template sensors
• Robot vacuum automations
• Arriving and leaving automations
• Notifications when the dishwasher or washing machine is done
• Time at work tracking

See also my guide for my girlfriend ❤️.

My devices

Switches

• TP-Link HS110 (3x) (€70.84)
• Xiaomi Aqara Magic Cube (€11.08)
• Xiaomi Aqara Single Button (4x) (€37.05)
• Philips Hue Dimmer switch (2x) (€33.22)
• IKEA TRÅDFRI SYMFONISK Remote (€15.00)
• Xiaomi Mi Flora (3x) (€46.63)

Sensors

• Xiaomi Aqara Door Sensor (4x) (€32.71)
• Xiaomi Aqara Temperature Sensor (4x) (€34.40)
• Xiaomi Aqara Motion Sensor (4x) (€61.13)
• Xiaomi Aqara Vibration Sensor (€11.59)

Vacuum

• Xiaomi Mi Roborock S5 (€294.31)

Media player

• KEF LS50 Wireless speakers
• KEF LSX speakers
• LG OLED 55 C9

Lights

• Philips Hue E27 White and Color (12x) (€266.7)
• Philips Hue GU10 Ambient White (6x) (€102.70)
• Philips Hue Go (€57.05)
• Philips Hue LED strip 2m (2x) (€86.39)
• Philips Hue LED strip 1m (€13.84)

Hubs

• ConBee II (€39.95)

Server

• Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB RAM, running Hass.io (€70.90)
• Raspberry Pi 4 FLIRC Case (€25.85)
• SanDisk Ultra microSDHC Memory Card 32GB (€6.99)

Device tracker

• iPhone X with the new iOS app (2x)

Other

• PlayStation Eye Webcam and Microphone array (€14.95)

Total cost

€1,333.28 without my TV, phones, and speakers, yes, this is shocking to me too 😅 I bought many things on Aliexpress and with discount or used on Amazon.

Notes

• I use AppDaemon 4 beta, see the installation instructions here.

Automation plans

• Notify us when the window is open and it is raining.
• Add budget keeper using the Bunq API
• Implement scenes: 'movie time', 'dinner time', 'cozy time', 'bed time', and 'party time'.
• Introduce the concept of "sleep mode" which automatically triggers if we're home and there is no motion in the house except the bedroom. Then if you go out in the middle of the night (e.g., to the bathroom) then lights will turn a non-bright red. Manually triggering the switch will turn on the normal lights.
• Use this cheap Wifi enabled dimmer and flash it with Tasmota to make some dumb lights, smart. [1]