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: Water Softener Salt, Tracked By Home Assistant

Start with the automation: one Home Assistant webhook records each water softener salt refill, ignores duplicate event IDs, updates helper state, writes Activity Feed history, and exposes template sensors for refill cadence, totals, and days since last add. The webhook can be fired by an agent, NFC tag, QR code, dashboard button, or any other trusted trigger. . Browse the YAML in , , and ; the NFC/tag follow-up is tracked in issue #1816.

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): 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 are hidden by .gitignore and won't show up on GitHub (e.g., home-assistant_v2.db*, logs, deps/, .venv/, backups). Look at the YAML and scripts for the actual logic and regenerate your own secrets.yaml.

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 ingest path (current): wyze-bridge runs on docker10 and Frigate runs on docker14, consuming Wyze RTSP via 192.168.10.10:8554 for stability.

Featured examples to start with

• Alarm and perimeter monitoring:
• Garage routines and entry lighting: , ,
• LLM Vision package reminders: ,
• Codex reset-credit tracking: , config/dashboards/infrastructure,
• Water leak response loop: ,
• Water softener salt maintenance: , , , , , issue #1816
• Sprinkler status and last-run dashboard: , ,
• Bedroom camera kiosk tablet: , config/dashboards/kiosk,
• Holiday/front-of-house color scenes: ,
• 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: , ,
• Snoozeable maintenance notifications: , , ,
• Battery and solar awareness: , ,
• Presence-aware office comfort:
• Weather-aware lighting:

Network diagram

Editable topology source: Mermaid and notes.

Docker add-ons & utilities | Container | Repo/Docs | Purpose | | --- | --- | --- | | Duplicati | duplicati/duplicati | Off-box, versioned backups for HA config, media, and infrastructure compose/config trees. | | Dozzle | amir20/dozzle | Lightweight Docker log viewer (useful for quick tailing across the homelab stacks). | | Cloudflared | cloudflare/cloudflared | Secure tunnel/edge access to Home Assistant without opening inbound ports. | | 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 | | --- | --- | --- | | Amazon Fire tablet wall kiosk | Bedroom camera screen with Fully Kiosk recovery, bedtime dimming, and a dedicated YAML dashboard - , kiosk dashboard, | | | Garadget garage door controller | Garage doors: open/close, arrival helpers, wind alerts, and nighttime reminders - , , | | | August smart lock | Front-door lock control + status - | | | Phyn Plus water shutoff | Leak detection + auto shutoff - , , , | | | Rachio sprinkler controller | Rain-skips, active-zone status, trigger-derived last-run history, and dashboard controls - , , | | | Tesla Powerwall 2 | Grid-outage alerts, charging watchdog, and load-shed automations - , , | | | Google Nest thermostat | HVAC schedules plus runtime-based filter reminders and condenser-line cleanout tracking - , , | | | NodeMCU motion sensor | Office motion lighting - | | | Raspberry Pi 3 + Aeon Z-Wave stick | Z-Wave backbone for door/hall sensors - , | | | Roku streaming device | TV presence -> scenes/lighting - | | | Amazon Dash Button | Quick actions (office lamp toggle) - | | | Amazon Echo Show | Front door camera pop-up when the August lock unlocks - | | | Amazon Echo Glow | Visual notification light candidate for Home Assistant status cues - | | | Dreame/Neato vacuum | Cleaning schedules, room queues, Alexa room cleans, and rescue notifications - , , | | | Flux/LED strip controller | Monthly color scenes for exterior - | | | 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

All of my configuration files are tested against the most stable version of home-assistant.

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