Room Assistant

I'm testing out Room Assistant to see if it can give me room based presence and location for a number of devices in the house. The idea is I would have an instance of Room Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi Zero's in key rooms. Room Assistant would run on the devices through Docker and would be part of the same cluster.

Docker compose

Config

Home Assistant device_tracker

Room Assistant publishes data via MQTT which Home Assistant is able to auto-discover. The only manual configuration that needs to be created is device_tracker entities for each device you want to track.

platform: mqtt
devices:
  iphone: 'room-assistant/device_tracker/bluetooth-classic-64-c7-53-71-e3-9b-tracker/state'
payload_home: 'true'
payload_not_home: 'false'
source_type: bluetooth

Areas

• Living Room (3b)
• Dining Room (zero or 3b/4)
• Kitchen (zero)
• Bedroom (zero)
• Bathroom (zero)