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Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's

This is the 3rd post in the My journey with Home Assistant focus series. I’m the happy owner of a couple of Philips Hue connected lights for a some years. Some of them are colored, some of them regular. In addition, I bought a sensor to go along with the light I installed in my toilets: it turns on automatically when its detects a movement there. In this post, I want to document how I replaced the proprietary automation with Home Assistant’s.

Suffice it to say that the default dashboard overview automatically displays every device added. You can ensure it’s unbound if the sensor now appears in the previous screen with a Not configured in this app label. I’ll keep the explanation of Blueprint objects for a later post; suffice to say for now that it’s akin to a template.

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