home-assistant-best-practices - Home Assistant Best Practices Guide
Provides best practices guidance for Home Assistant automations, helpers, scripts, and device controls
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Updated: 2026-03-21Capabilities
Typical Inputs
Typical Outputs
What this skill does
- create automations
- edit automations
- create scripts
- edit scripts
- create scenes
- select helper type
- write triggers
- write conditions
- select automation mode
- configure Zigbee buttons
- configure Zigbee remotes
- rename entities
- migrate device_id references
Inputs
- Home Assistant automation definitions
- script definitions
- scene definitions
- trigger configurations
- condition configurations
- entity IDs
- device IDs
Outputs
- configuration recommendations
- automation mode suggestions
- native trigger alternatives
- native condition alternatives
- helper type selections
- refactoring guidance
- entity ID references
Requirements
- Home Assistant environment
- configuration file access
- ZHA integration
- Zigbee2MQTT integration