I was lamenting to my Hermes Agent about my 89 year old Grandfather being home alone when I'm not with him, I moved in last year after my grandmother died so he wasn't alone and I travel a fair amount for work, my @NousResearch Hermes Agent installed @home_assistant on its MacMini then used a Zigbee radio USB to build my Grandfather a local home security system with tablet control, voice feedback, security, and wellness with panic buttons at bottom of stairs and bedroom. Hermes coded it all and even made a custom easy to read dashboard for him. @Teknium I did not expect this post to blow up like it did, my Hermes agent suggested making a GitHub repo so others could benefit from it. He made an account and here it is, feel free to fork and take any part, also if you want to contribute ideas and make it better. Ai can be used for good. Lets show people. https://github.com/eclexdex/home-care-agent This is Pops, yes, he plays video games every day lol Hermes on making it better: Sleep is working in real life. Here’s what this week shows, then what I’d add next. This week Mornings: On Friday the kitchen door opened at 9:10 with Sleep on, the chirp sounded, and Silence was pressed 7 seconds later. Wednesday 12:55: Sleep was turned on and the kitchen door opened 4 seconds later, so probably a test. The siren didn’t confirm the quiet setting, so the 30-second warning was silent. The full siren followed, and it actually started 20 seconds after HA told it to. Up times: Papa is up between 8:30 and 9:15 most days, judging by the first door each morning. Night door: the front door opened at 3:17 AM on Thursday while the house was in Home, so nothing reacted. Do these first, they close real gaps: Alerts to you. Today nobody is told anything. SOS, Alarm, freezing, or a dead sensor would push to your phone and repeat until you tap “Got it.” Telegram is a second channel. Spoken warnings on the kitchen tablet and Papa’s phone. For example: “The kitchen door opened. Press Home if that was you.” This doesn’t depend on the siren, which is what failed on Wednesday. It can also say “Good night, the doors are watched” when Sleep turns on. Plug the siren into USB power. Right now it runs on battery. That’s my best guess for both the dropped quiet-chirp settings and the 20-second delay; plugged in, it should stay awake. Then I’d add the same “confirm before sounding” check to Ezra’s arming and SOS steps. Next, for someone living alone: Morning check-in. If no door has opened and nothing’s been pressed by about 10:30, the tablet asks “Good morning Papa, tap I’m OK.” With no tap in 30 minutes, you get pinged. This catches a fall where he can’t reach a button. Night door watch. A door opening between 11 PM and 6 AM in Home mode, like Thursday’s 3:17, sends you a quiet ping. If it stays open 10 minutes, it becomes an alert. Bedtime nudge and morning auto-wake. The tablet suggests Sleep at bedtime if it isn’t on, and Sleep switches back to Home at a set hour so the morning door doesn’t chirp. Door-left-open reminder. “The kitchen door is still open,” at bedtime or after a set time. Nice to have: Messages from you on the tablet. Send from Telegram and it shows big on screen (“Back Friday. Love you.”), with a family photo slideshow when idle. TV. The LG TV is already in HA, so door warnings and alarms can show on screen while he’s watching, and the volume drops during an alarm. Voice. Ezra already set up a local speech system on mm1, and it’s running. Saying “Help” could trigger SOS for a fall away from the buttons, and “Goodnight” could turn on Sleep. This needs the voice speaker hardware placed in the house. Weather on the panel. Outdoor weather from a Tempest station (“Cold tonight, 41°”), plus an indoor heat alert. Porch camera. A snapshot on your watch screen when a door opens while armed, with the camera outside only. Still outstanding from before: Plug in the motion sensors. Turn on Zigbee2MQTT’s offline detection. Fix HA’s home location (his phone still reads “away” for 7 days). Give Papa his own non-admin account and change the shared password. My pick is 1, 2 and 3 next, then 4. Two things I need from you first: Alerts: how you want them. Either the HA app on your phone, or a Telegram bot, which means a new bot token and is your GO. The siren: whether it can be plugged in, which is a job at the house.

— Alexander Mann (@AlexanderMann) Oct 5, 2026