My Home Assistant Configuration 🏠

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Hardware
• Integrations
• Configuration Layout
• Missing Files
• Screenshots

Overview

This repository contains my personal Home Assistant configuration files. I maintain this configuration to automate and control various aspects of my smart home, focusing on reliability and ease of use. The setup includes lighting control, climate management, and security monitoring.

Hardware

Core infrastructure:

• Home Assistant instance running on a Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB)
• Z-Wave Controller: 800LR
• Sonoff RF Bridge 433 - Tasmota

Connected devices:

• Lots of Zooz Z-Wave Devices
• LG (fridge, TVs, etc)
• Petkit
• Vacuums
• Garage

Integrations

Key integrations used in this configuration:

• Core Integrations

  • Alert
  • Bluetooth
  • Change device type of a switch
  • Command Line
  • Counter
  • DLNA Digital Media Renderer
  • Group
  • Home Assistant Supervisor
  • iBeacon Tracker
  • Input Boolean
  • Input Button
  • Input Datetime
  • Input Number
  • Input Select
  • Input Text
  • Local Calendar
  • Local To-do
  • Meteorologisk institutt (Met.no)
  • Mobile App
  • MQTT
  • Ping (ICMP)
  • Python Scripts
  • Raspberry Pi Power Supply Checker
  • Schedule
  • Shopping List
  • Sun
  • System Monitor
  • Template
  • Timer
  • UPnP/IGD
  • Xbox
  • Z-Wave

• Device Integrations

  • Brother Printer
  • Browser mod
  • eero
  • Emporia Vue
  • Google Generative AI
  • Google Nest
  • HACS
  • LG ThinQ
  • LG webOS Smart TV
  • Motionblinds
  • Neato Botvac
  • PetKit
  • Pi-hole
  • Plex Media Server
  • Speedtest.net
  • Tasmota
  • Tile
  • Tuya
  • UI Lovelace Minimalist

Configuration Layout

I'm using the README files as a way to keep track of areas that I'm revamping for 2025 to clean up my instance and make things more reusable and wife friendly.

Structure

.github/
assets/
automations/
└── systems/
blueprints/
entities/
integrations/
python_scripts/
scripts/
ui_lovelace_minimalist/
└── custom_cards/
    └── layouts/
        └── headers/
    └── templates/
        ├── styles/
        └── variables/
└── dashboard/
    └── views/
        └── 01-home.yaml
    └── home-dashboard.yaml
www/
.gitignore
.prettierrc
configuration.yaml
README.md
scenes.yaml

• .github/ - GitHub workflows

• assets/ - screenshots and such for documentation

• automations/ - automations of course

  • systems/ - automations related to core system functionality

• blueprints/ - HA Blueprints - I don't have a use for these

• entities/ - entity definitions

• integrations/ - split config to load folders

• python_scripts/ - python scripts to call in automations

• scripts/ - HA script definitions

• ui_lovelace_minimalist/ - main dashboard framework

  • custom_cards/ - custom cards for the layout
    • layouts/ - templates for layouts
      • headers/ - templates for view headers
    • templates/ - templates for cards
      • styles/ - templates for visual aspects
      • variables/ - templates to handle common variables
  • dashboard/ - main dashboard configuration
    • views/ - view configurations
      • 01-home.yaml - main dashboard configuration file
    • home-dashboard.yaml - dashboard layout entrypoint

• www/ - Website files and assets for front end

• .gitignore - Git ignore rules

• .prettierrc - Prettier configuration

• configuration.yaml - Main configuration file for HA

• README.md - Project documentation

• scenes.yaml - Scene definitions, HA controlled

Automations

The following automations I have created to for various reasons. See automations/ for more info.

• systems/ - Automations related to core system, notifications, and alerts.
  • alert_to_persistent.yaml - Handles peristent alerts when alert entity is triggered
  • auto_close_alerts.yaml - Handles closing some low value alerts
  • ha_log_event_trigger.yaml - Triggers when there is new warning or error
  • unmute_people.yaml - Handles unmuting people after an hour

Scripts

A few scripts are made to ease some automations. See scripts/ for more info.

• systems/ - Scripts related to core system, notifications, and alerts.
  • reboot_home_assistant.yaml - Restarts HAS
  • shutdown_home_assistant.yaml - Shutsdown HAS
• utilities/ - Scripts related to house utilities
  • turn_off_house.yaml - Turns off all the lights and switches and stuff

Entities

These are the domains I have scripted out entities to help automate or script situations.

Missing Files

For security reasons, the following files have been excluded from this repository:

• secrets.yaml - Contains sensitive information like passwords and tokens
• .storage/* - Home Assistant internal storage
• known_devices.yaml - Device tracker entries
• ip_bans.yaml - IP ban list
• *.db - Database files
• *.log - Log files
• .ssh - ssh related secrets
• custom_components - HACS downloaded integrations

Screenshots

Examples of some pages and where to find the code.

Note

The dashboard is highly evolving and thus these screenshots may not be an accurate representation of the current state.

Responsiveness

• ui_lovelace_minimalist/dashboard/views/01-home.yaml

Full Screen Dashboard

Portrait Monitor Dashboard

Mobile Dashboard