Are multiple Triggers an "or" or an "and"?

Yup. All ‘or’.

You can’t. there is no way to do that and it wouldn’t really make sense either.

triggers are events that happen at an instance in time. Much like the device they are named after - you pull the trigger and at that instant the gun fires.

If the trigger wasn’t an ‘or’ then there would be any number of triggers “waiting” to go off when another trigger happens which doesn’t make sense.

any of the conditions to make a trigger conditional will be located in the aptly named “condition:” section of the automation.

By using correctly configured conditions you can then allow a trigger act like a trigger and use the conditions to check that the conditions are met to run the actions when the trigger fires.

also be aware that conditions in the “condition:” section of the automation won’t wait to be satisfied either. if the trigger fires the conditions are immediately checked and if the conditions all return false then the automation stops. It then needs a new trigger event before it will again check that the conditions are satisfied.

there are conditions you can use in the actions section to create more condition checks (waits, delays, choose, if-then, etc) to control action flow if needed.

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