I’d like to build an Away/Vacation Mode in Aqara Home, but rather than just turning individual lights on and off at random times, I’d like the house to tell a somewhat believable “story.”
For example:
19:10 – living room lights turn on
20:35 – hallway light turns on
20:37 – bathroom light turns on
20:48 – bathroom turns off
20:50 – hallway turns off
22:15 – hallway briefly turns on again
22:17 – bedroom light turns on
22:30 – living room turns off
23:10 – bedroom turns off
In other words, instead of every device behaving independently, the lights would sometimes follow a logical room-to-room sequence that looks more like a person actually moving through the home.
Obviously I wouldn’t want exactly the same sequence every evening either.
Has anyone attempted something like this with Aqara Home Automation 2.0?
I’m particularly curious about:
- creating several different evening “patterns” and choosing between them
- adding some randomness to delays without making the sequence completely random
- triggering the sequence relative to sunset rather than only at fixed clock times
- occasionally skipping some actions so every evening isn’t identical
- keeping the whole setup manageable instead of ending up with dozens of automations
Maybe I’m overthinking presence simulation, but to me a logical sequence seems much more natural than several unrelated lights switching on and off independently.
How would you build this using only native Aqara Home features?