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)

Specify which light profile to use when turning lights on.

Default value:

relax

device_group

(string)(Optional)

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

disable_turn_off

(boolean)(Optional)

Disable lights being turned off when everybody leaves the house.

Default value:

false

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: 1