smarthome-assistant

Adding Adhan Automation with Home Assistant and Nest Mini

Add the following codes in respective files. Detailed instructions posted by the author Sahar at Home Assistant. Customization is added for Fajr and to the rest of the Prayer times.

Created: 12/29/2020 Updated: 02/07/2024

Requires the following two integrations.

• Islamic Prayer Times
• Time & Date

1. Add the following code to configuration.yaml. Don’t forget to change latitude, longitude, elevation and time zone to match your location. You can use Timezone DB to get the information.

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
# to find lat and long - https://www.maps.ie/coordinates.html
homeassistant:
  latitude: 43.75167
  longitude: -79.26541
  unit_system: metric
  time_zone: America/Toronto
  media_dirs:
    media: "/media"

default_config:
discovery:
#media_extractor:
sun:

# Islamic prayer times integration starts updated 12/04/22
# Sensors
sensor:
  - platform: time_date
    display_options:
      - "time"
      - "date"
      - "date_time"
      - "time_date"
    calculation_method: Shafi
    sensors:
      - fajr
      - dhuhr
      - asr
      - maghrib
      - isha

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

1. In automation.yaml, add the following codes. The code includes references of my system ID and path. Kindly update it accordingly.
   • replace nest_mini_office with your Google Home Mini entity ID.
   • replace the media content location.

# Automation for Fajr Adhan
- action:
    - alias: "FajrAdhan"
      data:
        entity_id: media_player.nestmini8653
        media_content_id: http://localip:8123/local/adhan/fajr-adhan-mansoor.mp3
        media_content_type: audio/mp3
      service: media_extractor.play_media
    - data:
        entity_id: media_player.nestmini8653
        volume_level: "0.6"
      service: media_player.volume_set
  alias: Fajr_Adhan
  condition: []
  id: "1517693013922"
  trigger:
    - platform: template
      value_template: ''

# Automation for 4 times Azan
- action:
    - alias: "FourAdhan"
      data:
        entity_id: media_player.nestmini8653
        media_content_id: http://localip:8123/local/adhan/all-adhan-mishary.mp3
        media_content_type: audio/mp3
      service: media_extractor.play_media
    - data:
        entity_id: media_player.nestmini8653
        volume_level: "0.8"
      service: media_player.volume_set
  alias: Four_Adhan
  condition: []
  id: "1517694139312"
  trigger:
    - platform: template
      value_template: ''
    - platform: template
      value_template: ''
    - platform: template
      value_template: ''
    - platform: template
      value_template: ''