Hello, Home - Someone Arrives - Time based event

[Dave]

Did you take a look at Tim’s Magic Home SmartApp? Not sure if it’s what your looking for or not.

Hello, Home Phrase Director - Control modes (through hello home phrases) based on occupancy and "sun state"

A lot of peope have had interest in this app over the last few weeks. Setting up a dedicated thread for it. Magic home allows for four hello home scenes to be run based on 2 conditions. 1) Occupancy of your home 2) the current “sun state”. This allows for you to have a sunrise and sunset mode for when your home is occupied and not occupied. I currently have mine setup like this. Away Day - Will trigger when everyone is away and the sun is up Away Night - Will trigger when everyone is away and the sun is down Home Day - Will trigger when someone is home and the sun is up Home Night - Will trigger when someone is home and the sun is down Everything is automated and it will trigger on each event. So everytime the “sun state” changes it will check to see if anyone is home as well as e…

Thoughts on Modes

I’ve managed to code around some of the more obvious ones like coming home and setting a mode based on the light level, but I could’t agree more - multiple mode sets and multivalue logic to operate on them is IMO the way forward for folks to be able to configure this without needing to program. Although I get a kick out of programming my house, I recognize it’s a niche thing, and for HA (and hopefully ST) to go really mainstream, we need this kind of flexibility baked in without the need for coding (but keep the ability to code too please!!!) And by multivalue logic I mean the ability to use and/or, relative comparisons, and multiple clauses with the ability to group. The multivalve logic needs to apply to the “If This” as well as the “Then That” so we can say something like: If (presenc…