home-assistant-best-practices

Home Assistant (HA) best practices. Load first, before answering or exploring, on any HA request. TRIGGER THIS SKILL WHEN: - Creating or editing automations, scripts, scenes, dashboards, blueprints - Choosing template sensors, helpers, or Jinja macros - Restructuring triggers, conditions, or modes; button, remote, or event-entity automations - Renaming entities or migrating device_id to entity_id - Looking up card types or domain docs; writing AppDaemon apps - Deleting or restoring a backup, or upgrading Core or the OS SYMPTOMS: - Jinja2 templates where native options exist - device_id used in