Use Cases

Real-world smart-home recipes — what each one does, which Home Assistant domains it touches, which blueprints implement it, and which integrations you'll need to import.

8 use cases found.

Home security — cameras, presence, alarm

Frigate detects a person on the porch, the camera streams to your phone, smart locks confirm doors, and the alarm …

Featured Advanced Camera Alarm control panel Binary sensor

Local voice assistant with Wyoming + Whisper

A network of cheap satellite speakers (M5Stack, ESP32-Atom-Echo) lets you "Hey Jarvis, kitchen lights to 30 %" — fully on-prem, …

Featured Advanced Media player

Plants that water themselves

Soil-moisture-driven irrigation with weather-aware skip days. The greenhouse vents on hot days and the grow-lights run on a sun-elevation schedule.

Featured Intermediate Sensor Automation Binary sensor

Smart camper van — your home on wheels

Solar + house-battery monitor, water-tank levels, fridge & heater control, presence-aware lighting — fully off-grid via ESPHome and a Raspberry …

Featured Advanced Sensor Climate Light

Sunrise wake-up routine

Bedroom lights gradually fade from warm orange to cool daylight 20 minutes before your alarm, blinds open, the bathroom heats …

Featured Beginner Light Climate Media player

Energy monitoring — solar, grid, battery

One Energy dashboard for solar production, house consumption, grid feed-in/draw, and a home-battery state-of-charge tile, all polled at 30 s.

Intermediate Energy Sensor

Garage door auto-open on arrival

When your phone enters the home zone driving home, the garage door opens, the porch light turns on, and HA …

Beginner Cover Device tracker Light

Movie night scene

One-tap scene drops the lights to candle warmth, closes the blinds, fires up the projector, and launches Kodi on the …

Beginner Scenes Light Cover

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