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Set up smart home automations by describing them

“I want my lights, heating and routines to just work.”

Tell an AI what you want ('lights dim at 9pm if someone's home') and it can write the automation for Home Assistant, Alexa or similar. Test one at a time and keep a backup.

Fix it yourself in 3 steps

List your devices and the 3 routines you want, in plain English.
Back up your current setup, then ask the AI to write one automation at a time.
Test each one, then ask it to explain what it does so you can fix it later.

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My smart home: [system, devices]. I want: [routine in plain English]. Back up my current config first (tell me how). Write the automation, explain what triggers it and what it does, and how to undo it. Don't change locks, alarms or cameras without asking. Stop after the first automation for testing.

Fill in the [brackets]. Each prompt says when the AI should stop, so it doesn't wander off.

Agents people used for this: Alexa+, OpenClaw, n8n, Claude Code.

Inspired by real examples collected at agentusecases.ai.

📚 15 real stories of people doing this with AI agents

Audit and fix a Home Assistant setup · Claude in Chrome
Automate per-room heating control in Home Assistant · Cursor
Build Alexa routines to regulate a daily schedule · Alexa+
Control lights and fix automations in Home Assistant via OpenClaw · OpenClaw
Control the home by voice with a local AI · custom-built or unnamed agent
Get upcoming events and control routines with Alexa+ · Alexa+
Manage Home Assistant automations with Claude Code · Claude Code
Map and control a whole smart home · custom-built or unnamed agent
Monitor and respond to home office sensors · OpenClaw
Reconfigure Home Assistant lighting automations · custom-built or unnamed agent
Run Codex tasks on your Home Assistant config · Codex
Run the smart home by natural language · OpenClaw
Set lighting brightness with an AI agent on presence · n8n
Set up nightly smart-home routines by voice · Alexa+
Use n8n workflows as a Home Assistant voice agent · n8n

Collected at AgentUseCases.ai.

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