Sean Ferigan: Home Automation

 One of the things that caused me the most frustration over the time I've been using home automation is person location detection. I've tried various solutions including the built-in Home Assistant tracking, OwnTracks and others until I found Life360 . I've been using it to track mine and my wife's locations for a few months now and it's been super reliable, accurate and has allowed me to have automations that know when we're at home or work etc. This has been useful for an number of things, such as disabling some of the home security elements when we're home during the day, or reminding us that we left windows/doors open when we leave the house. If you're struggling to find a good location solution I strongly suggest checking it out:  https://www.life360.com/

Now that we've had person detection enabled for a couple of months one of the things that we realised was needed was a way to turn off the voice announcements when someone was detected at the front door. For example when we're going in and out to the cars etc. So, today I've added another override helper so that we can disable these announcements via a lovelace button. I also moved all the override buttons (this new one and the existing lighting overrides) to their own dedicated dashboard page to keep them all in one, easy to access place.