HomeAssistant-SceneManager

Manage and automate scenes in Home Assistant effortlessly.

Features

• Retrieve state information of multiple scene entities.
• Identify and activate the scene with the oldest timestamp.
• Simplify scene management in Home Assistant.

Usage

1. Configure the url and token variables with your Home Assistant API details.
2. Define scene entities in the scenes array.
3. Run the script to automate scene activation based on the oldest timestamp.

# Example Scene Entity Format
{"entity_id": "scene.scene_name"}

AutoHotkey Integration

Running the Script

You can easily run this script using AutoHotkey to automate scene management in Home Assistant. Press Win+Home to trigger the script, which will execute your Python code for scene control.

Note: Ensure that AutoHotkey is installed on your system before running the script.

Example AutoHotkey v1.1 script:

#Home:: ; Press Win+Home to run the Python script using AutoHotkey
dir := "path\to\your\python\script\" ; Set the directory path to your Python script
script := dir . "sceneSwapper.py ; Define the Python script to run
Run, % ComSpec " /k python " script ,, Hide ; Press F3 to execute the Python script
return

Example AutoHotkey v2.0 script:

#Home:: ; Press Win+Home to run the Python script using AutoHotkey
dir := "path\to\your\python\script\" ; Set the directory path to your Python script
script := dir . "sceneSwapper.py" ; Define the Python script to run
Run, % ComSpec " /k python " script ,, Hide ; Execute the Python script without F3
return

Dependencies

requests library for making HTTP GET and POST requests.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0).