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by Carrok 511 days ago
Are there any plans to add automations based on People and Areas (not zones)? I found the cool project Bermuda[0] and it triggers person entered/left area events based on bluetooth devices. This works great in my testing with a phone being tracked by Shelly switches. But I can't seem to find a way to actually make these events do anything. It would be even better if I didn't have to set up area specific automations at all and just be able to say "turn on the lights in an area to 20% if someone enters it after sunset".

Thanks for all your great work!

[0] https://github.com/agittins/bermuda

2 comments

Not from our side. You can see our roadmap here; https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11/15/roadmap-2024h2...

Now the community should be able to create such things, as our automation engine is very powerful.

I think the challenge in general with room presence detection is that these systems are not very common/reliable yet for us to aim to standardize.

Check out espresense