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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/FineCryptographer834 on 2025-06-02 16:34:32+00:00.
Just a heartfelt post to say thank you for this awesome platform and sharing in case this helps anyone!
My daughter suffers from epilepsy and loves to introvert in her room. We hooked up a baby monitor that we were hoping would let us hear if something happened. Unfortunately the other night she had a small seizure and no one heard it, she was able to crawl but was unable to speak. My son found her crawling down the hall trying to find someone and we were able to get her stabliized, she's fine thank goodness! But she's now (understandably) nervous to be by herself and so are we.
My nerd brain went to work on what I could do to give us something to notify everyone in the house if she needs help.
I created a webhook that toggles a boolean, if the boolean is flipped homeassistant sends notifications every 10 seconds with a sound to my phone, my wife, and my son. She can trigger this webhook from Apple Shortcuts via a shortcut on her home screen, the home screen of her watch, by saying Hey Siri, help, or by pressing a smart button at the top of her headboard, there's also a homeassistant widget on her home screen to toggle the boolean on in the event that apple shortcuts craps the bed. In addition to the notifications it turns on the lights in our master bedroom to wake us up if it's late.
The notification to each phone can be long pressed and then pressing She's Safe, this toggles off the boolean and stops the notifications to all 3 phones.
I'm sure this could be tweaked and improved, I'd welcome any suggestions or ideas.
Thanks for reading, creating, posting, and making something awesome. You've give a little girl some confidence back and mom and dad some small piece of mind.
Thank you kind strangers!!
Edit - The notifications are set to critical and full volume inside homeassistant, so they bypass silent modes and focus modes on the iphones. Tested and it works, the notification comes through full volume no matter what settings are applied to each phone.
