#Auto-Unlock Switches?

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ember ivy
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Looking at getting everything going in my HA set up. I Previously used HomeKit, HomeBridge and Home Assistant, but wanted to get mostly everything I could into HA.

With Homebridge, I had a few dummy switches that would turn on when i got home which would activate a door lock in home kit (which was the only way to automate the lock to unlock)

I want to replicate it. I haven’t gotten my Lock set up in HA yet (still only in HK) but Wondering what the best way to go about it would be. Do I need to do it similar to have a few dummy switches to turn on and off to trigger the lock when I get home, or does HA have the ability to have the lock unlock by Proximity? I didn’t have any issue with HomeKit seeing my location since it was not just a local network thing (being on the wifi). I worry that because I don’t have the HA cloud stuff set up that it might not work properly to use my location.

Does anyone do anything similar, or did the same with Homebridge and migrate over to HA?

gleaming geyser
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What behaviour are you trying to replicate here?

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a lock that unlocks after a certain amount of time, or unlocking one thing unlocks a bunch more or something else? i think my brain is struggling due to the number of "lock"s and "unlock"s in a single sentence

ember ivy
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Sorry,

Trying to have a front door lock unlock when I get home

gleaming geyser
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Gotcha
An automation based on your location - trigger state changes to Home, unlock the front door. You can then tie that to your phone's companion app

crude mason
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Everything you are trying to do is based on automation and/or geolocation. For automation, you can use zones in HA to lock/unlock doors dynamically if you choose. You can also use HK's geo location services to be a bit more dialed into your location within a few feet, in which case dummy switches are what you want.

For instance: in HK you set up automation that says when you are near home to unlock your door. It won't do this automatically because that breeches the security protocols, your phone is going to ask "do you want to run this automation", however if you set up a script/automation in HA and then expose that as a switch in HK then your action becomes to run that "dummy" switch instead, which has no security protocol restrictions.

Is that what you are asking?

ember ivy
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Ive seeming gotten things set up using helper toggles, but my issue is right now, when i have an automation I’d like to have the toggle to turn on and then turn off in like 5 seconds