Recipes

Recipes are pre-built smart-home setups you install from a catalog, straight from the Selora AI panel. Each recipe captures one complete outcome (a tornado alert pack, a vacation mode, an EV charging optimizer) as a bundle of automations, scripts, scenes, and helpers. You pick a recipe, Selora AI matches it to the devices you already own, asks you for a few settings, and installs the whole thing for you.

Unlike the chat panel and AI suggestions , recipes do not involve the AI at all. Installing one is a deterministic process: no prompting, no model, no guessing. The same recipe produces the same result on every home, and it uses no Selora AI credits.

Finding recipes

Open the Selora AI panel in the Home Assistant sidebar and select the Recipes tab. You will see the catalog of available recipes, grouped by category (Comfort, Kitchen, Laundry, Safety, and more).

The catalog is fetched live from selorahomes.com/recipes , so new recipes appear as soon as we publish them. You do not need to update the integration to see them. You can also browse the full catalog on the website before you install anything.

What a recipe tells you up front

Every recipe lists what it needs before you install it:

• Integrations it relies on (for example the National Weather Service, or LG ThinQ).
• Device roles it fills, such as “indoor siren” or “presence sensor”. Any device that fits the role works. The recipe may suggest specific models, but it does not require them.
• Exact devices, when a recipe genuinely needs one specific product.
• Regions, when a recipe only makes sense in certain countries (a US weather feed, for instance).

If your Home Assistant is running a version of Selora AI that is too old for a given recipe, that recipe is hidden automatically rather than shown and allowed to misbehave. Keep the integration up to date to see everything in the catalog.

Installing a recipe

Select a recipe and choose Install to open the wizard. It walks through a short, fixed sequence:

1. Device matching. Selora AI looks at your entity registry and proposes a device for each role the recipe needs. Where you have more than one candidate, you pick which device fills the role.
2. Settings. You fill in any options the recipe exposes, such as a shelter location or an announcement tone. Many settings are resolved automatically from your Home Assistant configuration (your location, for example), so the wizard only asks about what it genuinely cannot work out on its own.
3. Integration setup. If the recipe needs an integration you do not have yet, it is configured for you where possible, using values resolved from your system, so you rarely have to fill in a setup form by hand.
4. Install. Selora AI renders the recipe into a Home Assistant package , writes it to your configuration, and reloads. Your new automations, scripts, and scenes are live.

If anything the recipe needs is missing (a required device role you cannot fill, say), the wizard tells you exactly what is unmet before it installs, rather than installing something half-working.

Verified and Community recipes

Recipes ship in two tiers:

• Verified recipes are built and maintained by Selora Homes, tested on real hardware, and listed by default.
• Community recipes are contributed by third parties. You will see a warning before installing one, so you know it has not been through the same review.

Managing installed recipes

Automations and scenes that a recipe installed are marked with a recipe pill in the Automations and Scenes tabs. These are managed by the recipe, so edit them from the Recipes tab rather than changing them directly. Editing a recipe-owned automation by hand can be overwritten the next time the recipe is reconfigured or upgraded.

Swapping devices

If you replace a device (a new siren, a different sensor), you can point a recipe at the new one without re-running the whole wizard. Open the recipe and choose Reconfigure to update which devices fill each role. The recipe’s automations stay exactly as they are; only the device bindings change.

Upgrading

When we publish a new version of a recipe you have installed, Selora AI notices the difference and offers you an upgrade. Small updates are applied in place; larger changes reinstall the recipe cleanly.

Uninstalling

Choose Uninstall to remove a recipe. Because a recipe owns nothing beyond the package file it wrote, removal is clean: the automations, scripts, scenes, and helpers it added are deleted and your configuration is reloaded, leaving your home as it was before. If the recipe set up an integration for you during install, you can choose to remove that too. Integrations you configured yourself are never touched.

Dashboards

Some recipes include Lovelace dashboard cards (a status panel for a weather alert pack, for example). You can add these to an existing dashboard from the recipe’s page in the panel.