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CAFE (Complex Automation Flow Editor) for Home Assistant is an innovative automation authoring tool that provides a visual flow editor inside Home Assistant, offering a “third way” between manual YAML and external flow tools by transpiling visual flows directly into native Home Assistant automation YAML. It’s designed to give users the visual clarity of tools like Node-RED without the overhead of a separate execution engine, storing the logic as standard YAML that runs in the core automation engine with zero added resource use. ...

...By organizing all Home Assistant components—sensors, automations, scripts, themes, and Lovelace UI definitions—into a structured hierarchy, the repo helps maintain consistency, shareability, and backup of the smart home setup. Because Home Assistant involves complex interdependencies between devices and automations, having a central config repo ensures changes are traceable and easily reverted. The repository often includes templates, secrets configuration, and skip-files to avoid committing sensitive credentials. For users running multiple installations or migrating devices, hass-config serves as the canonical definition of the automation state. ...

...Although primarily designed for irrigation you can use AIC to control a large variety of hardware, for example lighting, heating etc It is envisaged that future implementations of AIC will incorporate rules for more complex device control.