Live, personal Home Assistant configuration shared for **browsing and inspiration**. This is not a turnkey clone-and-run setup; borrow ideas, adapt entity IDs/secrets, and test in your own environment.
### Latest video: I Gave Codex One Photo. It Used My Browser to List It.
[](https://youtu.be/Cz6dEPXP_A4)
### Latest video: Get a Driveway Car Alert with Frigate + Home Assistant
[](https://youtu.be/X9qrywP3XS0)
This one-photo Marketplace test shows Codex using the Edge browser connector with an already signed-in Facebook session to research comparable prices, improve the source image, prepare a pickup-only listing, and document the result in [issue #1862](https://github.com/CCOSTAN/Home-AssistantConfig/issues/1862). [](https://youtu.be/Cz6dEPXP_A4) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/08/codex-facebook-marketplace-listing-one-photo.html)
This Frigate-to-Home Assistant walkthrough uses a car-specific driveway zone and a 30-second loitering threshold to send a camera-backed alert to both phones and route the optional announcement through the LLM speech engine. [](config/automation/driveway_parked_car.yaml) [](https://youtu.be/X9qrywP3XS0) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/09/home-assistant-frigate-driveway-car-alert.html)
### Quick navigation
- You are here: `/` (root repo guide)
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- Mobile quick-access dashboard with large two-column controls: [](config/dashboards), [](https://youtu.be/ujP-zYLEso8), [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/07/home-assistant-mobile-dashboard-big-buttons.html)
- Alarm and perimeter monitoring: [](config/packages/alarm.yaml)
- Garage routines and entry lighting: [](config/packages/garadget.yaml), [](config/automation/garage_entry_light.yaml), [](https://youtu.be/wFO0H5zgnzk)
- Frigate driveway parked-car alert: [](config/automation/driveway_parked_car.yaml), [](https://youtu.be/X9qrywP3XS0), [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/09/home-assistant-frigate-driveway-car-alert.html)
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- **Container updates**– [](packages/tugtainer_updates.yaml) processes Available reports without persistent alerts, keeps Updated/Failed outcomes visible, and dispatches controlled review work. [](https://youtu.be/4NNOkXzUyYw) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/07/home-assistant-tugtainer-docker-updates.html)
- **WAN monitoring**– [](packages/infrastructure.yaml), [](packages/speedtest.yaml), and the [WAN dashboard](dashboards/infrastructure/views/04_wan.yaml) separate multi-probe reachability, continuous latency/loss, Ookla capacity, and result freshness. [](https://youtu.be/F-PpsKkzcrM) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/08/home-assistant-internet-speed-monitoring-ookla.html)
- **Entity cleanup**– [](packages/docker_infrastructure.yaml), [](packages/infrastructure.yaml), [recorder](recorder.yaml), and [logbook](logbook.yaml) show how the Portainer and Glances audit kept proven history while removing stale registry noise. [](https://youtu.be/aceV7ObKJVA) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/07/using-codex-clean-up-home-assistant-entities.html)
- **Automations (`automation/`)**– event-driven YAML broken out by area or device; the legacy `automations.yaml` remains for UI-created flows.
- **Automations (`automation/`)**– event-driven YAML broken out by area or device; the legacy `automations.yaml` remains for UI-created flows. The Frigate driveway example turns a car-specific zone and 30-second loiter into a two-phone camera alert plus LLM-backed speech. [](automation/driveway_parked_car.yaml) [](https://youtu.be/X9qrywP3XS0) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/09/home-assistant-frigate-driveway-car-alert.html)
- **Scripts & scenes (`script/`, `scene/`)**– curated lighting, notification, and AGENT engineer handoff helpers used by presence, holiday, seasonal, and infrastructure routines.
- **Templates (`templates/`)**– Jinja helpers and speech templates reused by the notify/speech engines.
- **Dashboards (`dashboards/`)**– YAML-managed Lovelace dashboards and UI resources, including a phone-first Overview view with large two-column controls. [](https://youtu.be/ujP-zYLEso8) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/07/home-assistant-mobile-dashboard-big-buttons.html)
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| Section | Why start here | Featured automation(s) |
| Automations | Real-world triggers that tie Zwave, MQTT, and REST sensors into the rest of the house. | [](automation/garage_entry_light.yaml), [](automation/dark_rainy_day.yaml), [](automation/dash_buttons.yaml) |
| Automations | Real-world triggers that tie Zwave, MQTT, REST, and Frigate occupancy events into the rest of the house. | [](automation/driveway_parked_car.yaml), [](automation/garage_entry_light.yaml), [](automation/dark_rainy_day.yaml), [](automation/dash_buttons.yaml) |
| Scripts | Reusable building blocks for lighting, notifications, safety responses, and Joanna/BearClaw remediation dispatch. | [](script/joanna_dispatch.yaml), [](script/notify_engine.yaml), [](script/speech_engine.yaml) |
| Scenes | Seasonal and ambiance presets that the scripts and automations call into. | [](scene/monthly_colors.yaml), [](scene/living_room.yaml) |
| Templates & Speech | Human-friendly voice briefings and templated responses, including quiet-by-default air-quality warnings with separate Airly CAQI and Pirate Weather US AQI thresholds. | [](templates/speech/briefing.yaml) [](https://youtu.be/Gjk7z34Qe_4) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/07/home-assistant-air-quality-airly-pirate-weather.html) |
| Dashboards & Media | Desktop control-center, mobile quick-access, and purpose-built kiosk views, UI chrome, floorplans, and automation assets. | [dashboards](dashboards), [WAN dashboard](dashboards/infrastructure/views/04_wan.yaml), [Bedroom dashboard](dashboards/bedroom), [](https://youtu.be/F-PpsKkzcrM), [topology diagram](../README.md#network-diagram), [media/](media) |
| Seasonal Audio | Cuckoo clock with Halloween and Christmas sound packs. | [](automation/System/CucKoo_Clock.yaml) |
The latest walkthrough replaces inconsistent Speedtest.net readings with controlled Ookla capacity snapshots and separates reachability, continuous quality, capacity, and result freshness on the WAN dashboard. [](https://youtu.be/F-PpsKkzcrM) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/08/home-assistant-internet-speed-monitoring-ookla.html). The implementation spans [](packages/infrastructure.yaml), [](packages/speedtest.yaml), and the [WAN dashboard](dashboards/infrastructure/views/04_wan.yaml). The earlier mobile-dashboard, air-quality, entity-cleanup, Tugtainer, water-softener, HVAC, Powerwall, leak-detection, kiosk, and LLM Vision walkthroughs remain available in their featured rows.
The latest walkthrough turns a Frigate car-specific driveway zone and 30-second loiter into a camera-backed Home Assistant alert for both phones plus optional LLM-backed speech. [](https://youtu.be/X9qrywP3XS0) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/09/home-assistant-frigate-driveway-car-alert.html). The implementation is [](automation/driveway_parked_car.yaml). The earlier WAN, mobile-dashboard, air-quality, entity-cleanup, Tugtainer, water-softener, HVAC, Powerwall, leak-detection, kiosk, and LLM Vision walkthroughs remain available in their featured rows.
### Gear tied to these automations (affiliate links)
Only including devices that have active references in the files above or an open implementation issue.
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| File | Why it matters |
| --- | --- |
| [](garage_entry_light.yaml) | Z-Wave door sensor + motion-controlled garage entry lighting from the garage automation walkthrough. [](https://youtu.be/wFO0H5zgnzk) |
| [](driveway_parked_car.yaml) | Frigate driveway-zone alert that notifies both parents with a camera preview and sends its household announcement through the LLM speech engine after the zone's 30-second loitering threshold. [](https://youtu.be/X9qrywP3XS0) [](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/09/home-assistant-frigate-driveway-car-alert.html) |
| [](kitchen_sink_circadian.yaml) | Sink light follows a soft morning, warm daytime, and sunset color-temperature schedule, stays off while TV is playing, and uses Kitchen Show illuminance to avoid new automatic turn-ons in an already-bright room. |
| [](dark_rainy_day.yaml) | Weather-aware lighting helper that also confirms the occupied first floor is actually dim through Kitchen Show illuminance. |
Carlo Costanzo
3 weeks ago