This automation is inspired by exellent blog Making Home Assistant’s Presence Detection not so Binary by Phil Hawthorne. The code were slightly simplified and improved.
Create user(s) following this pattern:
person.person1
person.person2
...
You can create as many persons as You like.
Next create input_select helper with following pattern:
input_select.person1
input_select.person2
...
for each person.
Create template sensor for each person and add them to dashboard. Optionaly You can customize them by adding a picture with customize section in Home Assistant configuration.yaml file. Put the picture file into www folder and access it with /local/profile-pic.jpg. To use customization for Your entities add folowing lines to Home Assistant configuration.yaml file:
homeassistant:
customize:
Now each sensor will have corresponding person home presence status