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Magic Areas is a Home Assistant custom integration that turns HA's area registry into an occupancy-aware automation layer. In production it listens to entity states across configured areas, computes presence from motion sensors, device trackers, and occupancy binary sensors, manages clear timers and secondary states (dark, sleep, extended), and publishes derived entities: area presence binary sensors, smart light/fan/cover/media groups, aggregate sensors, and feature-override switches. It is event-driven and tightly coupled to Home Assistant internals: the area/entity registries, dispatcher, event bus, async timers, and group entities.