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Presence-based Lights

Home Assistant has a built-in integration called device_sun_light_trigger to help you automate your lights. The integration will:

  • Fade in the lights when the sun is setting and there are people home
  • Turn on the lights when people get home after the sun has set
  • Turn off the lights when all people leave the house

This integration requires the integrations sun, device_tracker, person and light to be enabled.

To enable this integration, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
device_sun_light_trigger:

Configuration Variables

light_group string (Optional)

Specify a specific light/group of lights that has to be turned on.

light_profile string (Optional, default: relax)

Specify which light profile to use when turning lights on.

device_group string (Optional)

Specify which group to track. The group can contain device_trackers or persons.

disable_turn_off boolean (Optional, default: false)

Disable lights being turned off when everybody leaves the house.

A full configuration example could look like this:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
device_sun_light_trigger:
  light_group: group.living_room
  light_profile: relax
  device_group: group.my_devices
  disable_turn_off: true