Home Assistant Automation Management

A Python CLI and library for managing Home Assistant automations programmatically.

Designed for AI Assistants: This toolkit provides clean APIs that AI assistants (like Claude Code, Codex) can use to help users create and manage Home Assistant automations from natural language descriptions.

Architecture

User (natural language) → AI Assistant → Python Toolkit → Home Assistant

Features

• 🔍 Device discovery and search (supports Chinese and English)
• 🚀 Create and update automations directly via Home Assistant REST API
• 📋 List, enable/disable, trigger, delete automations, and query the logbook
• 🔄 Sync a directory of Python automation scripts to Home Assistant
• 🎨 Beautiful terminal output with Rich

Installation

pip install ha-automation

Once installed, the ha-automation CLI command will be available globally.

Quick Start

# Initialize a new workspace
ha-automation init
ha-automation init --lang en

# Follow the prompts to configure your HA URL and token,
# then sync your scripts to Home Assistant
ha-automation sync

Configuration

Credentials are stored in .ha-config in your workspace directory (created by ha-automation init), or in ~/.config/ha-automation/config as a fallback.

HA_URL=http://192.168.1.100:8123
HA_TOKEN=your_long_lived_access_token

Getting a Long-Lived Access Token

1. Go to your Home Assistant profile: http://your-ha-url:8123/profile
2. Scroll to "Long-Lived Access Tokens"
3. Click "Create Token", give it a name, and copy it

CLI Usage

Workspace

# Initialize a new automation workspace
ha-automation init [directory]
ha-automation init [directory] --lang [zh|en]

# Test connection to Home Assistant
ha-automation test

Device Discovery

ha-automation discover
ha-automation discover --force          # Force refresh cache

ha-automation devices "motion"
ha-automation devices "走廊"            # Chinese search supported
ha-automation devices --type light
ha-automation devices --area "Living Room"
ha-automation devices --json

Automations

ha-automation list
ha-automation list --state on
ha-automation show automation.my_automation

# Enable/disable/toggle accept entity_id or automation_id
ha-automation enable my_automation_id
ha-automation disable automation.my_automation
ha-automation toggle my_automation_id
ha-automation trigger my_automation_id
ha-automation trigger my_automation_id --skip-condition

ha-automation delete 1234567890
ha-automation delete 1234567890 --force
ha-automation reload

# Query the logbook
ha-automation logbook                              # last 24 hours
ha-automation logbook --entity automation.lights  # filter by entity
ha-automation logbook --hours 48                  # last 48 hours
ha-automation logbook --json                      # JSON output

Scripts

# List local automation scripts and their status
ha-automation scripts
ha-automation scripts --directory /path/to/automations

# Run a single script
ha-automation run my_script.py

# Sync all enabled scripts to Home Assistant
ha-automation sync
ha-automation sync --dry-run
ha-automation sync --clean              # Remove orphaned automations

# Enable/disable a script (controls whether it's synced)
ha-automation script-enable my_script.py
ha-automation script-disable my_script.py

Python API

from ha_automation import HAClient, DeviceDiscovery, AutomationManager

client = HAClient()  # Reads credentials automatically
discovery = DeviceDiscovery(client)
manager = AutomationManager(client)

# Discover devices
discovery.discover_all()
lights = discovery.search("living room light")
motion = discovery.search("走廊 motion")

# Create or update an automation
config = {
    "id": "my_automation",
    "alias": "My Automation",
    "trigger": [{"platform": "state", "entity_id": motion[0].entity_id, "to": "on"}],
    "action": [{"service": "light.turn_on", "target": {"entity_id": lights[0].entity_id}}],
    "mode": "single"
}
automation_id, was_created = manager.create_or_update(config)

For AI Assistants

See AGENTS.md for comprehensive documentation including automation patterns, trigger/condition/action reference, and workflow examples.

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Home Assistant with REST API enabled
• Long-lived access token

License

MIT License