Node-Red

node-red with Home Assistant can be used for creating smart Automatons.

What is node Red

Node-red is Flow-Based Programming (FBP) is a web-based visual programming language

Examples

Maybe you have an alarm you can use node-red when it triggered execute actions

If you have a Power monitoring plug on your washing machine you can use Node-Red to monitor the power used and notify you when the machine has finished

for more information on Node-red, please search the internet or youtube their lots of great resources to get you started