Remember to charge your car

What is no more annoying than discovering that you had forgotten to plug in the charger for the car before going to bed. Or maybe even more annoying, to come up with it right after you go to bed.
But do not despair – Home Assistant may be able to help you again.

If you have a Volvo, it is possible to integrate it with your smart home. Then you get more opportunities to control different functions in the car. With the help of Home Assistant, you can now check the heat, whether the car is locked, whether it is charging, and also whether the charging cable is plugged in.

We have one automation that runs every night, e.g. at 21.00. It checks if the car is at home, and if it is, it checks if the charging cable is plugged in. If it is not plugged in, it sends a notification to one of us who is at home (or both).

The trigger for this automation is time. Every day at 21.00 this triggers.

The next thing we do is put on a check on whether the charging cable is plugged in or not.

Here we have set up so that one notice goes to the one of us who is at home.
The first thing we do under the Action tab then is to put on a choice.
Then you choose the first condition to be state – person.x is at home

Then you enter what to do for this choice.

Then repeat this for each person you want to send the notification to.

This is how easy it can be done, and you will never forget to put the charger in the car again.

The whole automation as in the example:

alias: Volvo - charger
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: '21:00'
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: automation.v90_pluged_in_status
    state: 'off'
action:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.lars
            state: home
        sequence:
          - device_id: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
            domain: mobile_app
            type: notify
            title: Charge
            message: Remember the charger
      - conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.xxx
            state: home
        sequence:
          - device_id: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
            domain: mobile_app
            type: notify
            title: Charge
            message: Remember the charger
    default: []
mode: single