I want to create my first automation and I want to achieve the following:
If the time is between 6 am and 9 am and a specific Sonos is playing I want a specific lamp to be turned on. During the same period, if that Sonos is not playing then I want the light to turn off.
Where do I start?
BR
Daniel
Thats two automations.
The first:
platform: state) for your Sonos media_player being to: 'playing'.condition: time) being after: '05:59:59'
before: '09:01:00'
value_template being '{{ states.media_player.YOUR_SONOS.attributes.media_title == "This title" }}' (replace YOUR_SONOS and This title as appropriate)light.turn_on service (assuming it’s a light entity) on your lightThe second will use a trigger of the media player going to: 'paused' and the same first 2 conditions. The action will use light.turn_off instead:
- alias: 'Music stopped in the morning'
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.YOUR_SONOS
to: 'paused'
condition:
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: time
after: '05:59:59'
- condition: time
before: '09:01:00'
action:
- service: light.turn_off
entity_id: light.YOUR_LIGHTIt looks like the previous poster covered it for the most part, just a couple things to add: add a time trigger and a condition of playing to the first automation, that way if your music is already playing your light will come on at that time, and on the second automation, add a time trigger, a media stopped trigger, and a condition of paused or stopped. Let me know if you need me to write out the yaml for it, I can do so from my computer tomorrow.
- alias: 'Music stopped in the morning'
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.YOUR_SONOS
to: 'paused'
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.YOUR_SONOS
to: 'idle'
- platform: time
at: 6:00:00
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.YOUR_SONOS
to: 'off
condition:
- condition: time
after: '05:59:59'
before: '09:01:00'
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.YOUR SONOS
state: paused
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.YOUR SONOS
state: idle
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.YOUR SONOS
state: off
action:
- service: light.turn_off
entity_id: light.YOUR_LIGHT
- alias: 'Music playing in the morning'
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.YOUR_SONOS
to: 'playing'
- platform: time
at: 6:00:00
condition:
- condition: time
after: '05:59:59'
before: '09:01:00'
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.YOUR SONOS
state: playing
action:
- service: light.turn_on
entity_id: light.YOUR_LIGHTOkay, so I have this line in my configuration.yaml:
automation: !include automations.yaml
Then my automations.yaml looks as below. When I have that code in my automations file I am not able to log in to homeassistant. If I remove it there is no problems to login. What can be wrong?
- id: music_stopped_morning
alias: ‘Music stopped in the morning’
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.Sovrum
to: ‘paused’
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.Sovrum
to: ‘idle’
- platform: time
at: 6:00:00
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.Sovrum
to: 'off
condition:
- condition: time
after: ‘05:59:59’
before: ‘11:01:00’
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.Sovrum
state: paused
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.Sovrum
state: idle
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.Sovrum
state: off
action:
- service: light.turn_off
entity_id: light.tradfri_bulb_e14_ws_opal_400lm
id: music_playing_morning
alias: ‘Music playing in the morning’
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.Sovrum
to: ‘playing’
- platform: time
at: 6:00:00
condition:
- condition: time
after: ‘05:59:59’
before: ‘11:01:00’
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.Sovrum
state: playing
action:
service: light.turn_on
entity_id: light.tradfri_bulb_e14_ws_opal_400lmIf you can correctly format your paste by selecting all the YAML at once and marking it with </> then we can probably help you.
Knowing the error message you get from the configuration check (hass --script check_config) is pretty important though.
I was looking for how to do a correct paste, thank you! Does it look better now below? I am using the “Check config” function on the configuration tab in the gui and it shows success.
- id: music_stopped_morning
alias: 'Music stopped in the morning'
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
to: 'paused'
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
to: 'idle'
- platform: time
at: 6:00:00
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
to: 'off
condition:
- condition: time
after: '05:59:59'
before: '11:01:00'
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
state: paused
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
state: idle
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
state: off
action:
- service: light.turn_off
entity_id: light.tradfri_bulb_e14_ws_opal_400lm
- id: music_playing_morning
alias: 'Music playing in the morning'
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
to: 'playing'
- platform: time
at: 6:00:00
condition:
- condition: time
after: '05:59:59'
before: '11:01:00'
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
state: playing
action:
- service: light.turn_on
entity_id: light.tradfri_bulb_e14_ws_opal_400lmYou get no error, but:
When I have that code in my automations file I am not able to log in to homeassistant. If I remove it there is no problems to login.
Can you run the command and provide the output please.
core-ssh:~# hassio homeassistant check
Error on homeassistant/check: starting version 3.2.2
Testing configuration at /config
2017-10-06 11:33:54 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Unable to setup error log /config/home-assistant.log (access denied)
2017-10-06 11:33:55 ERROR (SyncWorker_0) [homeassistant.util.yaml] while parsing a block mapping
in "/config/automations.yaml", line 13, column 7
expected <block end>, but found '<scalar>'
in "/config/automations.yaml", line 18, column 15
2017-10-06 11:33:55 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Error loading /config/configuration.yaml: while parsing a block mapping
in "/config/automations.yaml", line 13, column 7
expected <block end>, but found '<scalar>'
in "/config/automations.yaml", line 18, column 15
Realising that the usage of ‘’ in the yaml file isnt that consistent. Where and when shall i put ‘’ around a value?
What’s on those lines?
The error was that i wasnt using ‘’ around values for states and times but now it is working - almost. My automation to turn on the light if the music is turned on works. However the lights doesnt turn off when i pause the music. So it seems like the first automation isnt triggered correctly.
- id: music_stopped_morning
alias: 'Music stopped in the morning'
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
to: 'paused'
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
to: 'idle'
- platform: time
at: '6:00:00'
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
to: 'off'
condition:
- condition: time
after: '05:59:59'
before: '13:01:00'
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
state: 'paused'
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
state: 'idle'
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
state: 'off'
action:
- service: light.turn_off
entity_id: light.tradfri_bulb_e14_ws_opal_400lm
- id: music_playing_morning
alias: 'Music playing in the morning'
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
to: 'playing'
- platform: time
at: '6:00:00'
condition:
- condition: time
after: '05:59:59'
before: '12:01:00'
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.sovrum
state: 'playing'
action:
- service: light.turn_on
entity_id: light.tradfri_bulb_e14_ws_opal_400lmTriggers are or by default, conditions are and by default.
Your conditions require the media player to be paused and idle and off 
I need a bi-polar media player then… 
Thank you, works good now