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+title: "HomeHub: moving to Home Assistant"
+slug: homehub-moving-to-home-assistant
+date: 2018-02-04T14:37:43
+categories: ["All", "Projects"]
+tags: ["Hass.io", "Home Assistant", "Home Automation"]
+draft: false
+---
+## Bye HomeHub
+
+We left the HomeHub story running heimcontrol.js with home made plug-ins for the opentherm gateway and RFXcom. I say running but it was crashing all the time. Months passed without running anything, I couldn't be bothered resetting the node.js application every time it decided to quit on me. Frustrated and disappointed the whole thing was pushed on the I'll get to it when I feel like it track. In this case it took about a year to do anything else.
+
+But revenge is a dish best served with good intentions ;-)
+
+## Re-ignite
+
+During a visit to the open door day [@revspace](https://www.revspace.nl) and walking around talking to people, there was one man typing on a notebook, editing a configuration file and checking a webpage. It suspiciously looked like home automation software due to all the things labeled with names like living-room, kitchen, curtains and lights. One inquiry later I had learned this piece of software was called home assistant and that it was an open source package for home automation with a solid userbase and lots of plug-ins ready to go. Color me intrigued! This might just be what I was trying to achieve with all that old shit at home.
+
+## Everything's coming up (mil)house
+
+Time to dust of that RFXcom and hook up that opentherm gateway, there's a new kid in town and he is very easy going.  
+Setting up my coco light switches with the RFXcom only took me 10 minutes, holy smokes, this system is awesome!  
+The opentherm gateway took a bit longer but ultimately with a little help from the community that also integrated well. My solution can be found [here](https://www.phiax.nl/2018/02/snippet-opentherm-gateway-for-home-assistant/).
+
+That's 2 for 2, this was going well. Time to go full throttle and find out what else I can cook up.
+
+How about automatically turning off all the lights whenever I leave home? Yep, that can be done. I needed to add some sort of presence detection for this. Following the [getting started guide](https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/presence-detection/) luckily already covers that topic so settings that up was also a breeze. I opted for the owntracks route. Setting up zones for my home, work, my moms, my sister's and my brother's place, because why not? :-)  
+Next I setup the automation:
+
+\# Turn off lights when everybody leaves the house
+  - alias: 'Away Mode'
+    initial\_state: True
+    trigger:
+    - platform: state
+      entity\_id: group.all\_devices
+      from: 'home'
+      to: 'not\_home'
+    action:
+      service: light.turn\_off
+      entity\_id: group.all\_lights
+
+After that I turned on all the lights and went to my mom, whiped out my phone, logged in and checked the states. All lights turned off!