I am attaching the yaml bellow and what I want is the either the frontdoor or the motion sensor to be on state on . Conditions These can be specified directly or . Automations in Home Assistant allow you to automatically respond to things that happen. Use the official Home Assistant apps, a convenient companion to quickly control your devices and be notified when things happen in your home, even on your wrist using the Apple Watch. You can see a full list of the different triggers available on the Home Assistant website. For example, a condition can test if a switch is currently turned on or off. This gave us the ability to drop in an if then style of decision logic into the action section of automations. However I think I assume its working wrongly. bkbilly (Vasilis Koulis) July 27, 2020, 1:09pm #1. 1 Like. I'm trying to use the "Choose" action to remind us to feed the pets around the house. Accessing trigger in the notify service call works . Server racks are expensive. In this case, it is a person arriving home, which can be observed in Home Assistant by observing the state of Paulus changing from not_home to home.. What I'd like to do is: Trigger Choose either of 2 actions (No default actions) When either of 2 choose actions have run, run some additional actions. It is used for: Formatting outgoing messages in, for example, the notify platforms and Alexa component. When any of the automation's triggers becomes true (trigger fires ), Home Assistant will validate the conditions, if any, and call the action. Unlike a trigger, which is always or, conditions are . Choose Action Choosing Default Action. 100. 3D Printed a server rack for my Home Assistant. The State object. Automation Conditions. This is the choose condition: choose: - conditions: - condition: template value_template: '{{ states("sensor.combi_koelkast… I really like the choose option! The problem Conditions inside a choose action don't have access to the automation trigger despite the documentation showing this should work. I'm not expert with HA I've two window sensor. The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence detection as part of your automations. if yes, what's the right syntax? I tried a lot of way but i could not. The platform works with more than 60,000 different devices. It has a few different types of triggers: set times (9am and 5pm) and when we get home as long as we're home before noon or after 6pm. There are many examples of something that could be a trigger, examples include an entity turning on, a person returning home or the sun rising. like a "state" AND a "time"? A condition will look at the system at that moment. Conditions can be used within a script or automation to prevent further execution. Conditions look very similar to triggers but are very different. Sure, you can put as many conditions in a choose as you like: action: - choose: - conditions: - condition: state entity_id: person.me state: 'home' - condition: time after: '06:00' sequence: - service: script.do_stuff. Scripts are a sequence of actions that Home Assistant will execute. So, entity id in this case would be: { { trigger.to_state.entity_id}} If you look down below state to template, you would see it is { {trigger.entity_id}}. The restrictions of Home Assistant automations. Process incoming data from sources that provide raw data, like MQTT . Actions are created from the Actions section of Companion App in Configuration page within the companion App for iOS. The concept works great for simple(r) automations. Templating is a powerful feature that allows you to control information going into and out of the system. - choose: - condition: AND conditions: - condition: template. automation: # Change the light in the kitchen and living room to 150 brightness and color red. I have an automation with a choose condition and it always skip the conditions. skrenes July 30, 2020, 3:38am #1. If you are just starting out, we recommend that you start with blueprint automations. When a condition does not return true, the script or automation stops executing. The script syntax basic structure is a list of key/value maps . Triggers describe events that should trigger the automation rule. It's in the documents. dennis84de (Dennis) October 30, 2021, 7:43am #8. Your State Condition is configured to detect open which is neither on or off. Triggers are what starts the processing of an automation rule. Modern smart home devices tend to work . trigger: - platform: sun event: sunset action: - service: light.turn_on target: entity_id . My example . This hides all my cables and only has 1 power cable going out and 1 Ethernet. I can do this for a single window but what I want to do is get alerts no matter what window is open. 12. r/homeassistant. The trigger is the event in Home Assistant that causes the automation to fire. Server: if you have multiple Home Assistant servers connected, select . Prior to this, you had to write the logic out using programming syntax or use a series of scripts as I detailed in the other video. Automations in Home Assistant always work via the same schema: when something happens - under certain conditions - do something. Data is sent directly to your home, no access by third . You can click on the state object link to see what other info you get. You can turn the lights on at sunset or pause the music when you receive a call. Open/Closed are how on / off are displayed in the Lovelace UI when the binary_sensor's device_class is door or window. When the script is executed within an automation the trigger variable is available. Those parts are called trigger, condition and actions. Conditions are an optional part of an automation rule and can be used to prevent an action from happening when triggered. Home Assistant architecture, especially states. Yeah, still think there should be an easier way to get a datetime object from an input_datetime but think this is already easier / clearer. When a condition does not return true, the automation will stop executing. I thought I'd take a shot at turning two automations into one by using the new automation action choose. Each action has required fields depending on your device: Name: the name of the action, this will be returned in the Home Assistant event fired by the app. Back in version .113, the Home Assistant team added the "choose" action to automations. All of your triggers are state triggers. An automation can be triggered by an event, with a certain entity state, at a given time, and more. Google Home works with more than 30,000, coming in behind Alexa in terms of third-party support. In a previous post, I talked about how you could use scripts with your Home Assistant automations to add some simple decision logic. See Available-Trigger-Data.. As part of my migration from docker to Hass Blue I'm also migrating Node RED automations to native Home Assistant. Join. Issues with new automation action feature "choose". Condition or on Choice. More to the problem, conditions are AND by default so no need for an "condition: AND". - choose: - conditions: - condition: template value_template . But if you do want to use it. The first part is the trigger of the automation rule. First, it isn't listed in the interface, so I wrote this automation manually: - id: 'freezer_automation' alias: Freezer description: Run . Scripts are available as an entity through the standalone Script component but can also be embedded in automations and Alexa/Amazon Echo configurations.. What's wrong i dont know. Configuration. But in keeping with the . This is the first draft needs further work and some upgrades. If I'm not at home and one of the windows is open (i forgot the windows as open) I want to be notified. So you look there and see you have 'trigger.to_state' or 'trigger.from_state'. These are ready-made automations by the community that you only need to configure. A trigger will look at events happening in the system while a . The second part is the condition.Conditions are optional tests that can limit an automation rule to only work in your specific . A binary_sensor's state value can be on or off. Item 3 doesn't run though So am I wrongly . 1 / 2. Hi Everyone, I need your help about automations. I recently installed the new version of home assistant 0.113 and I want to make an automation which will have an OR condition on the chooser. You can also call the service to activate a scene which will allow you to define how you want your devices to be and have Home Assistant call the right services. Configuration. The automation should choose which notification to read out based on the switches for .