Use voice assistants, custom routines ... or motion detection (if you have motion sensors connected to Home Assistant), and set the action to control your lights. Such as turning on lights ...

The annoying thing about commercial smart home gear is its lack of interoperability ... his project to use ancient 1990s burglar alarm sensors in his modern smarthome setup.

In this case, the data was sent via MQTT with the Home Assistant instance configured to treat these MQTT topics as sensors. With each sensor’s location carefully registered, this allows for ...