Automation-first reliability planner
Start with what you want to automate, then check whether it will run reliably
Choose a scene such as presence lighting, front door security, away mode, smart locks, energy alerts, climate comfort, or garden watering. The planner maps the devices, hubs, compatibility path, limits, reliability checklist, and Home Assistant YAML before you buy.
Turn lights on when someone enters a room and turn them off when the room becomes empty.
Devices you already own
Presence & lighting
Presence-based room lighting
Turn lights on when someone enters a room and turn them off when the room becomes empty.
Local risk
high
Security scene
No
Owned matches
0
- Choose a presence or motion sensor that exposes stable entities to Home Assistant.
- Connect lights through a local path when possible, such as Hue Bridge, Matter, Zigbee, or a native integration.
- Generate YAML only after the trigger and light entities are visible.
- Aqara Presence Sensor FP2
- Eve Motion
- Aqara Motion Sensor P1
- Philips Hue Bridge
- Home Assistant
- compatible presence or motion sensor
- light or lighting bridge
- Presence sensors can require vendor app calibration.
- Basic motion sensors may turn lights off while people are still still.
- Cloud-only lights can add delay to automations.
These checks come before copying YAML. They reduce false triggers, stale states, manual-control conflicts, and unsafe security or power actions.
- Use a sensor that exposes a stable occupancy or motion entity before writing YAML.
- Add a cooldown or delay-off period so lights do not flicker when motion briefly clears.
- Keep a manual override path for guests, movie mode, or sleep mode.
- Handle unavailable sensors by leaving lights unchanged instead of forcing them off.
Recommended devices
alias: Turn on light when presence is detected
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.presence_sensor
to: "on"
condition:
- condition: sun
after: sunset
action:
- service: light.turn_on
target:
entity_id: light.hallway
mode: singleNeed a final setup and reliability path?
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