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: Home Assistant Vacation Mode
[](https://youtu.be/15kRcFaVV2Y)
### Latest video: Home Assistant Vacuum Automations
[](https://youtu.be/KKOWSKuF5jA)
This walkthrough shows how Vacation Mode becomes a real Home Assistant state machine: sustained-away detection, house-sitter arrival/departure tracking, useful visit reminders, missed-visit alerts, and secure-house checks after the sitter leaves. [Watch the video](https://youtu.be/15kRcFaVV2Y), read the [companion post](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/05/home-assistant-vacation-mode-house-sitter-automation.html), and browse the YAML in [config/packages/vacation_mode.yaml](config/packages/vacation_mode.yaml).
This walkthrough shows how the Dreame vacuum package became a real Home Assistant workflow: away-only cleaning, room queues, sweep/mop phases, Alexa one-off room commands, map-backed rescue notifications, and follow-up when the robot gets stuck. [Watch the video](https://youtu.be/KKOWSKuF5jA), read the [companion post](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/05/home-assistant-vacuum-automations-dreame-2026.html), and browse the YAML in [config/packages/vacuum.yaml](config/packages/vacuum.yaml).
### Quick navigation
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**Docker add-ons & utilities**
| Container | Repo/Docs | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Home Assistant Time Machine | [saihgupr/HomeAssistantTimeMachine](https://github.com/saihgupr/HomeAssistantTimeMachine) | Browse/diff/restore HA YAML (Lovelace, automations, scripts, ESPHome, packages) against existing backups. Blog walkthrough: [Time Machine for dashboards](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2025/12/home-assistant-time-machine-dashboards.html). |
| Duplicati | [duplicati/duplicati](https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati) | Off-box, versioned backups for HA config and media; docker config backups land in OneDrive. |
| Dozzle | [amir20/dozzle](https://github.com/amir20/dozzle) | Lightweight Docker log viewer (useful for quick tailing across the homelab stacks). |
| Cloudflared | [cloudflare/cloudflared](https://hub.docker.com/r/cloudflare/cloudflared) | Secure tunnel/edge access to Home Assistant without opening inbound ports. |
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| Roku streaming device | TV presence -> scenes/lighting - [roku package](config/packages/roku.yaml) | [](https://amzn.to/2Ctp8cr) |
| Amazon Echo Show | Front door camera pop-up when the August lock unlocks - [august package](config/packages/august.yaml) | [](https://amzn.to/4ptA3YO) |
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### Featured automations by section
| Section | Why start here | Featured automation(s) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Packages | Self-contained subsystems that highlight patterns like combined alerts + actions. | [packages/alarm.yaml](packages/alarm.yaml), [packages/garadget.yaml](packages/garadget.yaml), [packages/vacation_mode.yaml](packages/vacation_mode.yaml), [packages/powerwall.yaml](packages/powerwall.yaml) |
| Packages | Self-contained subsystems that highlight patterns like combined alerts + actions. | [packages/alarm.yaml](packages/alarm.yaml), [packages/garadget.yaml](packages/garadget.yaml), [packages/vacation_mode.yaml](packages/vacation_mode.yaml), [packages/vacuum.yaml](packages/vacuum.yaml), [packages/powerwall.yaml](packages/powerwall.yaml) |
| Automations | Real-world triggers that tie Zwave, MQTT, and REST sensors into the rest of the house. | [automation/garage_entry_light.yaml](automation/garage_entry_light.yaml), [automation/dark_rainy_day.yaml](automation/dark_rainy_day.yaml), [automation/dash_buttons.yaml](automation/dash_buttons.yaml) |
| Scripts | Reusable building blocks for lighting, notifications, safety responses, and Joanna/BearClaw remediation dispatch. | [script/joanna_dispatch.yaml](script/joanna_dispatch.yaml), [script/notify_engine.yaml](script/notify_engine.yaml), [script/speech_engine.yaml](script/speech_engine.yaml) |
| Scenes | Seasonal and ambiance presets that the scripts and automations call into. | [scene/monthly_colors.yaml](scene/monthly_colors.yaml), [scene/living_room.yaml](scene/living_room.yaml) |
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| Flux/LED strip controller | Monthly color scenes for exterior – [monthly color scene script](script/monthly_color_scene.yaml) | [](https://amzn.to/2jUBSBE) |
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- Room queue advances on a 2-minute dwell in `sensor.l10s_vacuum_current_room` (queue = remaining rooms); phase changes happen when an empty queue is reseeded and the vacuum is not actively cleaning.
- One-off room cleaning for Alexa uses `input_boolean.l10s_vacuum_clean_*` (example: "Kitchen Clean") and runs a segment job without touching or checking the phased queue.
- Formal Dining (room 17/dock) is excluded from phased queues; clean it via the one-off toggle.
- Video companion: [2026 vacuum automations walkthrough](https://youtu.be/KKOWSKuF5jA) and [companion blog post](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/05/home-assistant-vacuum-automations-dreame-2026.html).
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| [phynplus.yaml](phynplus.yaml) | Installing Phyn Plus and wiring its leak events into HA automations. | [Blog](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2020/05/phyn-plus-smart-water-shutoff-device.html) |
| [powerwall.yaml](powerwall.yaml) | Monitoring Tesla Powerwall health + what to automate when the grid drops. | [Blog](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2018/01/going-green-to-save-some-green-in-2018.html) |
| [pihole_ha.yaml](pihole_ha.yaml) | Sync Pi-hole blocking state across HA DNS nodes. | |
| [grafana.yaml.disabled](grafana.yaml.disabled) | Rendering Grafana dashboards to images for Lovelace and social posts. | [Blog](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2018/01/going-green-to-save-some-green-in-2018.html) · [Blog](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2018/09/re-installing-tesla-solar-panels-again.html) · [Video](https://youtu.be/BartadUzGOA) |
| [august.yaml](august.yaml) | Smart lock control and status from HA. | [YouTube short](https://youtu.be/UdcCeAyo9Ak?si=O-f607NHbRLKZxao) |
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| Tesla Powerwall 2 | [powerwall.yaml](powerwall.yaml) | Grid outages kick off load-shed scripts and status pings. | [](https://amzn.to/3UM4BZ5) |
| Google Nest thermostat | [climate.yaml](climate.yaml) | Presence/weather/grid-aware cooling targets, humidity pulses, and eco recovery. | [](https://amzn.to/4olpINw) |
Carlo Costanzo
2 weeks ago