Aurora Smart Home orchestrator — routing layer for all smart home skills. Use this skill when the user asks ANY smart home question and you need to decide which skill to invoke, or when a task spans multiple skills (e.g., "build a sensor that shows on a dashboard and triggers automations"). Invoke aurora FIRST before reaching for a specific skill — it will route to the right specialist(s) and recommend the correct Claude model to keep token usage efficient. Trigger on: smart home, Home Assistant, ESPHome, automation, IoT, dashboard, ESP32, Node-RED, or any request about controlling or monitoring devices at home.
ESPHome device configuration, firmware, and IoT product development. Covers ESP32, ESP32-S3, ESP32-C3, ESP32-C6, ESP32-H2, ESP32-P4, ESP8266, RP2040, RP2350, nRF52, LibreTiny, Shelly, Sonoff, Tuya, BLE proxy, Matter firmware, Thread, Zigbee, GPIO, sensor YAML, LVGL displays, LED strips, voice assistant hardware, device flashing, Arduino conversion, alarm_control_panel, lock, valve, media_player, microphone, speaker, audio DAC, event entities, datetime entities, Z-Wave proxy, MIPI DSI displays, and DLMS smart meters. Also covers designing new ESPHome-based products: hardware selection, component sourcing, PCB design (KiCad), enclosures, 3D printing, CE/FCC certification, BOM optimization, and manufacturing from prototype to production scale.
Home Assistant YAML configuration and automation. The most common skill for general HA questions. Covers automations, blueprints, scripts, scenes, template sensors, Lovelace dashboards, Mushroom cards, packages, helpers, presence detection, voice Assist, calendar automation, Jinja2 templates, notification patterns, energy monitoring, Matter devices, automation debugging and traces, dashboard sections view, and trigger-based template entities.
Node-RED visual automation flows for Home Assistant. Covers visual automation, flow JSON, trigger-state, api-call-service, function nodes, context storage, timer patterns, error handling, and node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket nodes. Use when user mentions "Node-RED", "flow", "visual automation", or "node-redflöde".
Home Assistant custom integration development in Python. Covers custom_components, DataUpdateCoordinator, config_flow, OAuth2, conversation agent, HACS publishing, device registry, entity platforms, services, repair issues, diagnostics, Bluetooth integrations, and multi-coordinator patterns.
Reference guide for connecting popular APIs to Home Assistant via Node-RED, YAML, or custom integrations. Covers authentication, endpoints, and complete working examples for: energy APIs (Tibber, Nordpool), weather (SMHI, OpenWeatherMap, yr.no), transport (SL, Trafikverket, Resrobot), smart home clouds (Shelly, Tuya, Philips Hue, IKEA), and global APIs (OpenAI, Spotify, Google Calendar, Telegram, GitHub). Use this skill whenever the user mentions a specific external service, API, or data source they want to connect to Home Assistant - even if they don't say "API".
Beautiful, copy-paste-ready Home Assistant dashboard designs with complete CSS themes, card-mod styles, and button-card templates. Nine distinct visual styles: Glassmorphism, Dark Minimal, Material You, Nordic, Neon/Cyberpunk, Warm Home, Soft Pastel, Luxury Gold, and Retro Terminal. Use this skill whenever the user wants to make their dashboard look good, asks about card styling, CSS for Home Assistant, card-mod, button-card templates, Lovelace themes, dashboard aesthetics, or wants a specific visual style - even if they don't use the words "design" or "CSS".