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Home Assistant

[Home Assistant] Presence detection

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There are different ways to realize a presence detection in Home Assistant:

https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/presence-detection/

As I have a FritzBox at home, I’m using the AVM FRITZ!Box Tools Integration, which has “presence detection by looking at connected devices”.

You can find your devices using the developer tools and looking for the device_tracker entity. I then use the devices in a group to easily check if anyone is home.

/config/groups.yaml

family:
  - device_tracker.xiaomiredminote8pro
  - device_tracker.xioamimi8
Home Assistant

[Home Assistant] Notify Groups

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Notify Groups are useful to send notifications to a group of devices or even to different channels like Home Assistant Companion App, Telegram, Signal etc.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/group/#notify-groups

I’m using it to create a group of Android Devices I want to send notifications to via the Companion App.

# Notify Groups
notify:
  - platform: group
    name: "family"
    services:
      - service: mobile_app_mi_8
      - service: mobile_app_redmi_note_8_pro

After that, go to Developer Tools and reload the Notify Services.

Now you should find a new notify service called “family” which can be used in automations.