How to Use Automation Modes in Home Assistant

Back in version.115, Home Assistant added modes to their automation logic. With these new modes, we have finer control over what happens when an automation is triggered in Home Assistant. In this video, I walk through what the new modes are and give some use cases that make sense to me. We also modify some of my existing automations since these new modes have the ability to reduce some complexity. So if you are struggling with efficient automations in Home Assistant, stick around because we are going to automate some boring stuff. Here are the video chapters: 00:00 - How to use Automation Modes in Home Assistant - Intro 01:45 - Using Single Mode in Home Assistant Automations 04:09 - Using Restart Mode in Home Assistant Automations 06:02 - Using Queued Mode in Home Assistant Automations 07:39 - Using Parallel Mode in Home Assistant Automations 09:02 - Wrapping it Up Links to things in the video: Presence Package on Github https://github.com/thejeffreystone/home-assistant-configuration/blob/master/config/packages/presence.yaml Weather Package on Github https://github.com/thejeffreystone/home-assistant-configuration/blob/master/config/packages/weather.yaml Security Package on Github: https://github.com/thejeffreystone/home-assistant-configuration/blob/master/config/packages/security.yaml @vcloudino on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC301G8JJFzY0BZ_0lshpKpQ And @vcloudinfo’s GitHub for mining for automation treasure: https://github.com/CCOSTAN/Home-AssistantConfig Who am I? My Name is Jeff. I am an Automator of boring things and a huge Home Assistant fan. I also live in a house that tweets. Follow Me: Github - https://github.com/thejeffreystone Twitter - https://twitter.com/thejeffreystone On the Web - http://slacker-labs.com/ And if you like this video you could always fuel my coffee/automation habit - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/icE6DeBut, or use my Amazon affiliate link ( https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?k=Home+Automation&ref=nb_sb_noss_2&linkCode=ll2&tag=thejeffreysto-20&linkId=18622d75c4923c69c2b7488cec58ad5e&language=en_US) which helps support this content. The affiliate link provides a small commission on things you buy without additional cost to you. If you want to follow my house on Twitter, you can at https://twitter.com/anchoragehouse2 but be warned....it can be snarky.