Automation Foreman
An AI assistant for Home Assistant power users that watches their device usage for 30 days, then proposes automations they actually need — written in plain English with a one-tap dry run before anything is deployed.
Home Assistant tinkerers with growing device lists
- Pattern detection across entity history (motion, switches, climate, presence) over the last 90 days
- Plain-English automation proposals with reasoning and a one-click revert
- Device-bloat detector that flags duplicate sensors and redundant battery reporters
- Shadow-mode test runs that log what an automation would have done before you commit
HADocs introduces a health score but stops at diagnostics; Home Assistant users have been manually discovering these patterns themselves and want the AI to spot the work.
AI Automation Suggester, a near-identical OSS integration, has 755 stars and 41 forks on GitHub, plus a third-party blog post ('Stop Writing YAML at 2AM') and active community thread requesting AI automation suggestions, confirming real pain among HA tinkerers.GitHub - ITSpecialist111/ai_automation_suggester ↗Stop Writing YAML at 2AM: Home Assistant AI Automation Suggester Is Here ↗
AI Automation Suggester already does the core loop (scan entities, propose YAML automations, push via HASS notifications); HADocs covers the diagnostic/visualization adjacent slot — the 30-day observation and dry-run steps are the only real differentiation, and those are easily added by the incumbent.GitHub - ITSpecialist111/ai_automation_suggester ↗GitHub - SirBlondieDK/HADocs ↗
HA power users are strongly DIY/OSS-first and the leading competitor is free MIT-licensed; Nabu Casa's official cloud sits at ~$6.50/mo, capping how much a third-party AI layer can charge for a feature Home Assistant itself is actively building into core.GitHub - ITSpecialist111/ai_automation_suggester (MIT license) ↗Building the AI-powered local smart home - Home Assistant ↗
Smart-home automation and Home Assistant adoption are durable multi-year trends, and LLM context for entity reasoning is improving — but Home Assistant's own AI roadmap is a real platform-risk that could absorb the feature.Building the AI-powered local smart home - Home Assistant ↗
A working reference implementation already exists (ai_automation_suggester, 217 commits, HACS-installable), proving the snapshot → LLM prompt → YAML parse → notification pipeline is well within scope of a small team.GitHub - ITSpecialist111/ai_automation_suggester ↗