Core profile

Awareness Core

Home awareness automation core for camera, doorbell, entry-sensor, snapshot, notification, and Redis-backed event history workflows across enabled integrations.

Home awareness engine v4.12.1 6 settings Awareness engine

Core role

What this core is for

Home awareness engine

Highlights

Behavior in the current codebase

Replaces the old HA automations bridge with an in-core awareness runtime.
Builds camera, doorbell, motion, and entry-sensor options from enabled integration device capabilities.
Existing rules that reference unavailable integrations report the missing integration/device until the provider is downloaded and enabled.
Stores newest-first events in Redis with source area context, timestamps, and metadata for later querying.
Camera and doorbell paths support snapshot + vision summaries, with optional notifications, display cards, and TTS routing.
Entry sensors log both open and closed events, with open-only notifications and optional open-only TTS.
The old Home Assistant-oriented brief system has moved out of Awareness Core; the Tater Dashboard now generates cached 12-hour awareness summaries from the Redis event timeline.
Snapshot notification paths can send recent camera images and descriptions to Tater S3Box displays through the display event API.

Related Verbas

Direct core support

This runtime component mainly handles orchestration rather than exposing its own direct Verba target.

Settings

Configuration schema

Camera Event Clip Length (sec) number
Length of short camera clips sent to the configured Video Understanding model.
Key: camera_event_clip_seconds Default: 8
Event Clip Max Size (MB) number
Maximum video size to retain for each Awareness event.
Key: event_clip_max_mb Default: 32
Snapshot Max Size (KB) number
Maximum JPEG size to store per event snapshot.
Key: event_snapshot_max_kb Default: 768
Events Retention select
How long to retain awareness events written to Redis.
Key: events_retention Default: 7d Options: 2d, 7d, 30d, forever
Store Event Clips checkbox
Keep successful camera and sensor-linked clips so they can be played from Event History.
Key: store_event_clips Default: True
Store Event Snapshots checkbox
Store camera, doorbell, and sensor-linked snapshots for Event History.
Key: store_event_snapshots Default: True

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