Bear Stone Smart Home Documentation
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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: Local Package Detection with Frigate (Replacing LLM Vision)
Train local Frigate state classifiers on your own camera examples, keep existing Home Assistant package helpers and notifications, and use Codex to collect frames and train the models.
Quick navigation
- You are here:
/(root repo guide) - Blog | Issues | Diagram | YouTube
- Config readmes: Config index | Packages | Automations | Scripts | Scenes | Sounds | Package triggers
- Codex skills (optional): Home Assistant Codex Skills
What this repo is (and isn't)
- A live record of how my smart home runs, with real-world automations, scripts, and scenes.
- A place to reverse-engineer patterns, not a deployment guide. If you reuse snippets, adjust entities, secrets, and services to fit your setup.
- Issues double as a changelog and design history; browse them for rationale behind changes.
Repo layout and files you won't see
- Reusable config lives under
config/(see the quick navigation paths above). - Runtime artifacts, local development tools and tests, and detailed internal topology notes stay out of the public tree. GitHub Actions keeps the public YAML examples and dashboards validated. This is a browsing guide, not a turnkey deployment; adapt host-specific helpers, URLs, entities, and secrets before reuse.
Platform
- Runs on Docker/compose today; this README is a browsing guide, not a how-to-install. Current HA version is tracked in
config/.HA_VERSION(see the badge above). - Camera and network examples reflect one home installation; replace local endpoints and service names when adapting them.
Featured examples to start with
- Cloudflare website alerts with authenticated webhook delivery and persistent Repairs:
- Colored iOS notification icons for packages, driveway alerts, and vacuum help:
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- Windows Codex usage and reset alerts:
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- WAN reachability, quality, Ookla capacity, and freshness monitoring:
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- Read-only BGW gateway health, link, uptime, and traffic telemetry:
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- Mobile quick-access dashboard with large two-column controls:
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- Alarm and perimeter monitoring:
- Garage routines and entry lighting:
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- Tesla tire-pressure alerts with shared briefing snoozes:
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- Frigate driveway parked-car alert:
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· Icon styling:
- Local Frigate package reminders (setup and validation notes):
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Original LLM Vision experiment:
- Docker update reporting and exception review:
, config/dashboards/infrastructure,
- Entity registry and Docker telemetry cleanup:
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- TeslaMate road-trip reports and milestone alerts:
, issue #1845,
- Air-quality speech alerts with separate CAQI and US AQI thresholds:
, issue #1834,
- Water leak response loop:
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- Water softener salt maintenance:
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- Sprinkler status and last-run dashboard:
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- Bedroom camera kiosk tablet:
, config/dashboards/kiosk,
- Holiday/front-of-house color scenes:
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- Dash-button triggers for quick actions:
- PC lock/unlock-driven lighting plus workday wake-up via HASS.Agent + Wake on LAN:
- Seasonal cuckoo clock with patriotic, October, and Christmas sound packs:
- Garage arrival and entry helpers:
- Vacation Mode and house-sitter checks:
- HVAC runtime maintenance loop:
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- Snoozeable maintenance notifications:
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- Battery and solar awareness:
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- Weather-aware lighting:
Docker add-ons & utilities
| Container | Repo/Docs | Purpose |
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| Duplicati | duplicati/duplicati | Off-box, versioned backups for HA config, media, and infrastructure compose/config trees. |
| Cloudflared | cloudflare/cloudflared | Secure tunnel/edge access to Home Assistant without opening inbound ports. Cloudflare certificate, tunnel, and origin alert example: |
| WordPress | wordpress | Hosts vCloudInfo.com for docs, how-tos, videos, and long-form writeups that accompany this config. |
Gear tied to real automations (affiliate links)
Only listing hardware that appears in active packages/automations or has an open implementation issue here. https://amzn.to/48jVzZ3
| Device | What it drives (friendly name -> file) | Buy |
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| Amazon Fire tablet wall kiosk | Bedroom camera screen with Fully Kiosk recovery, bedtime dimming, and a dedicated YAML dashboard - |
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| Garadget garage door controller | Garage doors: open/close, arrival helpers, and nighttime reminders - |
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| August smart lock | Front-door lock control + status - |
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| Phyn Plus water shutoff | Leak detection + auto shutoff - |
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| Rachio sprinkler controller | Rain-skips, active-zone status, trigger-derived last-run history, and dashboard controls - |
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| Tesla Powerwall 2 | Grid-outage alerts, charging watchdog, and load-shed automations - |
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| Google Nest thermostat | HVAC schedules plus runtime-based filter reminders and condenser-line cleanout tracking - |
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| Raspberry Pi 3 + Aeon Z-Wave stick | Z-Wave backbone for door/hall sensors - |
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| Roku streaming device | TV presence -> scenes/lighting - |
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| Amazon Dash Button | Quick actions (office lamp toggle) - |
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| Amazon Echo Show | Front door camera pop-up when the August lock unlocks - |
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| Amazon Echo Glow | Visual notification light candidate for Home Assistant status cues - |
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| Dreame/Neato vacuum | Away-only room queues, sweep/mop phases, family-return cancellation, a four-day cycle-start guard, Alexa room cleans, and rescue notifications - |
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| Flux/LED strip controller | Monthly color scenes for exterior - |
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| Etekcity/433MHz outlet | Accent lighting relays - |
Gear and affiliate links
- Browsing or purchasing through the affiliate links above helps support this project; thanks!
- Full gear list: https://www.vcloudinfo.com/gear-list
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