How to use Home Assistant / NodeRed to set up Holiday Lights to fake your presence.

So you have a smart home, you have all the lights set up and running as you like but you are about to go on holiday and want to make your home appear to be occupied and not sitting empty for a certain period of time?
Well, good news, using Home Assistant, NodeRed and a presence faker module you can easily achieve this, lets’s get on with the tutorial.
For this tutorial, I am going to use the Sunset for my location as the trigger to start the time period for triggering the routines to enable. So Load up NodeRed.

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