Arm when Away

[armedad]

please post code using the code formatting option. since spaces are significant in yaml, its hard for us to read without it.

here’s quick info on it:

How to format your code in forum posts

Spaces at the beginning of the line are critical in yaml, and people trying to help you may want to copy your code so that they can try it out themselves, so please format it correctly when you are posting. Use the preformatted text tool (</> in the edit post toolbar). If it is not immediately visible, it will be in the cogwheel menu. [Code_format] Alternatively you can use three backticks (the key is on the far left, 2nd row on en keyboards) on their own line above and below the code. That i…

for your automation, i think you’re mixing up triggers and conditions (but not 100% positive w/o the right formatting).
you have a trigger for the alarm going to disarmed from disarmed. so that won’t ever fire. what are you trying to do with that.

and i think you have in conditions what you should have as your trigger…
the trigger you need to have is when your wife and your locations are both not home (you’re defining as not_home and Work… but you could also define them as not home.

this post should help clarify:

Automations #1: trigger only fires when it changes from not true to true

In an automation written to run when the heating drops below 20C, the trigger will fire when the temperature changes from 20 to 19. trigger: - platform: numeric_state entity_id: - climate.study for: hours: 0 minutes: 10 seconds: 0 below: 20 It will not fire again until the temperature rises above 20C and drops for a second time. A trigger is an event… Not a state, but a change of state. You can have more than one trigger: trigger: - platform: numeric_…