Safety and security automations
These recipes give the household a clearer, faster picture of what is happening, so a leak, an open door, or a stove left on gets noticed sooner instead of being found by accident. They add information and supplemental actions. They do not replace listed alarms, approved safety controls, professional monitoring, practiced emergency plans, or a person checking the situation.
Start with alerts
- Detect and name the exact location.
- Alert the responsible people immediately.
- Keep the incident visible until someone acknowledges it.
- Treat unavailable or conflicting data as unknown.
- Add automatic control only when the equipment is approved for that job and recovery has been tested.
Recipes
Away lighting
Use ordinary-looking lighting changes without claiming that lights alone secure a home.
Supplemental fire response
Turn on tested path lighting and send supplemental alerts without delaying alarms, unlocking doors, or declaring an all-clear.
Immediate water leak alert
Name the wet sensor, alert the household, and require inspection before clearing the incident.
Garage door left-open alert
Report a door that remains open without treating presence or motion as proof that it is safe to move.
Stove reminder
Tie a reminder to a deliberate cooking timer or approved appliance state. Do not improvise high-current control.
Safe garage closing
Alert first and allow unattended movement only through equipment designed for it with working entrapment protection and warnings.
Presence sound while away
Use optional sound as a reversible deterrent without presenting it as a security system.
Safety rules
- Never delay a smoke, carbon-monoxide, leak, or other urgent alert while waiting for confirmation.
- Never infer identity, permission, occupancy, or safety from one sensor.
- Keep normal locks, switches, appliance controls, and emergency equipment available.
- Do not bypass listings, interlocks, warnings, photo-eyes, or manufacturer instructions.
- Report a command as successful only after the final state is confirmed.
- Require a person to clear an incident when a dry, closed, cool, or quiet sensor cannot prove the problem is over.
Before enabling control
- Test alert-only behavior first.
- Test unavailable, stale, low-battery, power-loss, hub-restart, and internet-loss states.
- Document the manual response and recovery path.
- Have the right qualified professional review electrical, fuel, plumbing, alarm, or door equipment where required.
- Let the household practice without creating a real hazard.