I'm off to bed...

Further to my post about the sensors I have, I thought I would share my off to bed routine. While this is written in home assistant, I have ported this over from Openhab.

The first stage is a google routine called "I'm off to bed", as that is my voice prompt. This does a few actions straight off the bat . It turns off my home theater setup, sets a toggle helper on home assistant and reminds me to brush my teeth. At this point, nothing further happens.

Once I am actually ready to head to bed, I walk up my stairs, which triggers an Aqara motion sensor at the top. There is a separate home assistant routine that turns on the light when motion is detected and the light level is dim. Once motion is detected, home assistant matches the trigger with the condition that the off to bed helper is on. If everything is in place, the lights downstairs all switch off. The lights in my bedroom now switch on, the bedroom blind now closes if it was open and the helper resets.

In future, I may improve this routine by adding detection for my going in to the bathroom and / or using my toothbrush before going to bed for an extra prompt.

The code in home assistant looks like this:

alias: off to bed
description: ""
trigger:
  - type: motion
    platform: device
    device_id: fdaa058eb984892849c4c3f47b622026
    entity_id: 489a5088d425fafed85d31ee16609f6f
    domain: binary_sensor
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.off_to_bed
    state: "on"
action:
  - service: scene.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: scene.blinds_down
    metadata: {}
  - service: scene.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: scene.bedtime
    metadata: {}
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 0c29c0642cf82a4c696517dd912ca56e
    entity_id: 9bcc9702c3624d7e69e7d855de0a3352
    domain: switch
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 0c29c0642cf82a4c696517dd912ca56e
    entity_id: 9bcc9702c3624d7e69e7d855de0a3352
    domain: switch
  - service: automation.trigger
    data:
      skip_condition: true
    target:
      entity_id: automation.home_threater_off
  - service: scene.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: scene.downstairs_night
    metadata: {}
  - service: input_boolean.turn_off
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: input_boolean.off_to_bed
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 1c571f29bf1ee8d2296ddd76a5f94009
    entity_id: 77358d2a874b3fa37d7e75094d5a29be
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: 70
mode: single

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Tim Wilkes is a UK-based security architect with over 15 years of experience in electronics, Linux, and Unix systems administration. Since 2021, he's been designing secure systems for a telecom company while indulging his passions for programming, automation, and 3D printing. Tim shares his projects, tinkering adventures, and tech insights here - partly as a personal log, and partly in the hopes that others will find them useful.

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