Fully automatic light management based on motion as AppDaemon app.

🕓 multiple daytimes to define different scenes for morning, noon, ...
💡 supports Hue (for Hue Rooms/Groups) & Home Assistant scenes
🔌 switches lights and plugs (with lights)
☀️ supports illumination sensors to switch the light just if needed
💦 supports humidity sensors as blocker (the "shower case")
🔍 automatic discovery of lights and sensors
⛰️ stable and tested by many people with different homes

Getting Started

Docker Image (amd64, arm and arm64)

You can try AutoMoLi via Docker without installing anything! The Image is the default AppDaemon one with AutoMoLi and a simple default configuration added. See the AppDaemon Docker Tutorial on how to use it in general.

AutoMoLi expects motion sensors and lights including a room name. The exact patterns are listed in Auto-Discovery of Lights and Sensors You can set a room with the AUTOMOLI_ROOM variable in the Docker run command.

docker run --rm --interactive --tty --name AutoMoLi \
--env HA_URL="<HA URL>" \
--env TOKEN="<HA Token>" \
--env AUTOMOLI_ROOM="bathroom" \
--ports 5050:5050 \
benleb/automoli:latest

Port 5050 is opened to give access to the AppDaemon Admin-UI at http://127.0.0.1:5050

Example

To test AutoMoLi in your Esszimmer (german for dining room), use ... --env AUTOMOLI_ROOM="esszimmer" ... in the Docker run command.

• AppDaemon will show you its config file on startup:

• If everything works, AutoMoLi will show you the configuration it has parsed, including the discovered sensors:

• This is how it looks when AutoMoLi manages your lights:

Installation

Use HACS or download the automoli directory from inside the apps directory here to your local apps directory, then add the configuration to enable the automoli module.

Example App Configuration

Add your configuration to appdaemon/apps/apps.yaml, an example with two rooms is below.

livingroom:
  module: automoli
  class: AutoMoLi
  room: livingroom
  disable_switch_entities:
    - input_boolean.automoli
    - input_boolean.disable_my_house
  delay: 600
  daytimes:
      # This rule "morning" uses a scene, the scene.livingroom_morning Home Assistant scene will be used
    - { starttime: "sunrise", name: morning, light: "scene.livingroom_morning" }

    - { starttime: "07:30", name: day, light: "scene.livingroom_working" }

      # This rule"evening" uses a percentage brightness value, and the lights specified in lights: below will be set to 90%
    - { starttime: "sunset-01:00", name: evening, light: 90 }

    - { starttime: "22:30", name: night, light: 20 }

      # This rule has the lights set to 0, so they will no turn on during this time period
    - { starttime: "23:30", name: more_night, light: 0 }

  # If you are using an illuminance sensor you can set the lowest value here that blocks the lights turning on if its already light enough
  illuminance: sensor.illuminance_livingroom
  illuminance_threshold: 100

  # You can specify a light group or list of lights here
  lights:
    - light.livingroom

  # You can specify a list of motion sensors here
  motion:
    - binary_sensor.motion_sensor_153d000224f421
    - binary_sensor.motion_sensor_128d4101b95fb7

  # See below for info on humidity
  humidity:
    - sensor.humidity_128d4101b95fb7


bathroom:
  module: automoli
  class: AutoMoLi
  room: bathroom
  delay: 180
  motion_state_on: "on"
  motion_state_off: "off"
  daytimes:
    - { starttime: "05:30", name: morning, light: 45 }
    - { starttime: "07:30", name: day, light: "scene.bathroom_day" }
    - { starttime: "20:30", name: evening, light: 100 }
    - { starttime: "sunset+01:00", name: night, light: 0 }

  # As this is a bathroom there could be the case that when taking a bath or shower, motion is not detected and the lights turn off, which isnt helpful, so the following settings allow you to use a humidity sensor and humidity threshold to prevent this by detecting the humidity from the shower and blocking the lights turning off.
  humidity:
    - sensor.humidity_128d4101b95fb7
  humidity_threshold: 75

  lights:
    - light.bathroom
    - switch.plug_68fe8b4c9fa1
  motion:
    - binary_sensor.motion_sensor_158d033224e141

Auto-Discovery of Lights and Sensors

AutoMoLi is built around rooms. Every room or area in your home is represented as a seperate app in AppDaemon with separat light setting. In your configuration you will have one config block for every room, see example configuration.
For the auto-discovery of your lights and sensors to work, AutoMoLi expects motion sensors and lights including a room name (can also be something else than a real room) like below:

• sensor.illumination_room
• binary_sensor.motion_sensor_room
• binary_sensor.motion_sensor_room_something
• light.room

AutoMoLi will detect them automatically. Manually configured entities will take precedence, but need to follow the naming scheme above.

Configuration Options

daytimes

Meta

Ben Lebherz: automation lover ⚙️ developer & maintainer - @benleb | @ben_leb

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details