Expanding the Home Assistant automation capabilities

Home Assistant offers more resources to automate your home. If you don’t have many ideas about what to do to automate your home, you can use a pre-formatted automation or import one. You can also create a pre-formatted automation and share it to be used in your home or by the development community. You can use scripts that will help you to execute coordinated actions, increasing the power of your automation. Your automation can be structured by creating scenes that can manage specific areas of your home. We will discuss these options in the next subsections.

Using and creating pre-formatted automations (blueprints)

In the previous sections, we learned how to create our own automations from scratch using the Home Assistant automation editor. You can also use the pre-formatted automations available in Home Assistant or import them. These pre-formatted automations are known as blueprints. If you think your automation can...