Home Assistant Vacation Mode

This node-red flow automates random turn_on and turn_off service calls against a group of lights or switches.

It is based on a HomeAssistant Script by Jeffrey Stone. Check out his Youtube channel SlackerLabs at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCipZJ6748kd8TbelSxcvcVg or his webpage at https://slacker-labs.com/

To use this flow you will need:

1. A Home Assistant group in groups.yaml named vacation_lights containing the list of entities you want to automate

2. An input boolean helper and an associated dashboard button that toggles it on or off.

3. HomeAssistant with Node-Red installed as an add-on.

4. Install the node-red-contrib-random-item node

Create your group, add your button, install the node-red-contrib-random-item node and import the flow. The script is meant to only automate lights while the sun is below the horizon. If the sun comes up, it will wait until the sun is once again below the horizon and then resume operation.

When the Vacation Mode button is toggled off, the script will turn on all of your devices and then exit.

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