Smart Home Farming

A Home Assistant custom integration that helps with planning and maintaining a hobby vegetable garden using AI assistance. This integration uses AI (Google Gemini) to help you plan your garden, track plantings and harvests, and get personalized plant care recommendations.

Features

• 🌱 Generate AI-powered planting plans based on your available space and desired plants
• 📝 Record and track plantings and harvests
• 🤖 Get AI-assisted plant care recommendations
• 📊 Monitor your garden's status through Home Assistant
• 🌍 Location-aware recommendations for climate-appropriate planting

Installation

HACS (Recommended)

1. Ensure HACS is installed in your Home Assistant instance
2. Search for "Smart Home Farming" in HACS
3. Click Install
4. Restart Home Assistant
5. Go to Configuration > Integrations
6. Click "+ ADD INTEGRATION"
7. Search for "Smart Home Farming"
8. Follow the configuration steps

Manual Installation

1. Download the latest release from GitHub
2. Copy the custom_components/smart_home_farming directory to your Home Assistant custom_components directory
3. Follow steps 4-7 from the HACS installation

Configuration

You will need:

• A Google Gemini API key (or other LLM service)
• Your garden's location (for climate-appropriate recommendations)

Services

The integration provides the following services:

smart_home_farming.generate_planting_plan

Generate an AI-powered planting plan.

Parameters:

• available_space: Description of your available garden space
• desired_plants: List of plants you want to grow
• planting_date: When you plan to start planting

smart_home_farming.record_planting

Record when you plant something.

Parameters:

• plant: Name of the plant
• location: Where in your garden you planted it
• date: Planting date

smart_home_farming.record_harvest

Record when you harvest something.

Parameters:

• plant: Name of the plant
• date: Harvest date
• yield_amount: How much you harvested

smart_home_farming.get_garden_status

Get the current status of your garden, including all planting plans, planting records, and harvest records.

Dependencies

• Home Assistant
• Google Generative AI Python package (google-generativeai>=0.1.0)

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues and pull requests!

License

MIT License

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