Recipe - Home Alone¶

Purpose¶

Vary how and which notifications are made if someone is home on their own.

Implementation¶

Uses a Scenario and the automatic occupancy checks that are enabled using mobile discovery when recipients are defined in the config. AutoArm or custom automations set the Alarm Control Panel state to night.

Example Configuration¶

recipients:
    - person: person.joe_mcphee
      email: joe.mcphee@home.mail.net
      phone_number: "+3294924848"
    - person: person.jabilee_sokata
      email: jab@sokata.family.net
scenarios:
    lone_night:
        alias: only one person home at night
        condition:
            condition: and
            conditions:
            - "{{notification_priority not in ['critical','high','low']}}"
            - "{{'LONE_HOME' in occupancy}}"
            - condition: state
                entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm_control
                state:
                - armed_night
        action_groups:
            - alarm_panel
            - lights
        delivery:
            apple_push:
            alexa_announce:
            plain_email:
            chimes:

Variations¶

Determine night time using the sun entity, or a daylight sensor device, rather than alarm status.

Check for 2 or more people at home

"{{'ALL_HOME' in occupancy or 'MULTI_HOME' in occupancy}}"