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I stopped writing YAML. My home agent builds my automations now.

After three months with Home Assistant OpenCode and the free Big Pickle agent, a homeowner says he has written no YAML at all. He asks in plain words and it builds his dashboards and automations, like a goodnight routine that turns off downstairs lights, locks the front door and sets the thermostat, and it found the old guest mode condition that was blocking one automation.

How it works

  1. Connects OpenCode to Home Assistant with his devices and automations in context
  2. Asks in plain words for a goodnight routine and it builds the triggers, conditions and actions
  3. Asks for kitchen and office dashboards and it generates them from his sensors
  4. Pastes a failing automation and it finds the stale guest mode condition and fixes it
  5. He reviews changes with the agent before they are deployed

Why it’s worth knowing

A free agent that knows his whole house replaced three months of YAML work, including finding why an automation silently never ran.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on techwizardry.org. See the original ↗

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