Automation are sensor does not work

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1

Hello everyone. Could someone tell me if they see something wrong with this automation. I would think it’s ok but I can’t find the problem. The motion sensor is zigbee and is controlled by zigbee2mqtt. The sensor states are false and true. I tried with those states and with on off and in no case did it work.

  - alias: "Enciende pasillo cuando entras al pasillo de noche"
    id: "12365745523"
    mode: parallel
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id:
        - sensor.sensor_pasillo_occupancy
      from: 'off'
      to: 'on'
    condition:
      - condition: and
        conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: light.comedor
            state: "off"
          - condition: state
            entity_id: light.pasillo
            state: "off"
          - condition: state
            entity_id: sun.sun
            state: "below_horizon"
    action:
      - service: light.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id: light.pasillo 
      - delay:
          seconds: 10
      - service: light.turn_off
        target:
          entity_id: light.pasillo
2

In that case, isn’t this a binary sensor? Try:

entity_id:
        - binary_sensor.sensor_pasillo_occupancy

All my motion sensors are binary - ‘off’ and ‘on’ should be OK.

Also, multiple conditions are always ‘and’, so I think that section could be something like:

  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: light.comedor
    state: 'off'
  - condition: state
    entity_id: light.pasillo
    state: 'off'
  - condition: state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    state: below_horizon
3

It is actually a mqtt sensor that has a json with all the attributes in its state.

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To get the values ​​I did this

mqtt:
  sensor:
    - name: movimiento-pasillo
      state_topic: zigbee2mqtt/Sensor movimiento pasillo   
    - name: Sensor Pasillo - Illuminance
      state_topic: zigbee2mqtt/Sensor movimiento pasillo   
      unit_of_measurement: "lx"
      value_template: "{{ value_json.illuminance }}"
    - name: Sensor Pasillo - Occupancy
      state_topic: zigbee2mqtt/Sensor movimiento pasillo   
      value_template: "{{ value_json.occupancy }}"           
    - name: Sensor Pasillo - Battery
      state_topic: zigbee2mqtt/Sensor movimiento pasillo   
      unit_of_measurement: "%"
      value_template: "{{ value_json.battery }}"

It is not a sensor but an attribute of the sensor. It does not have it as a state

4

It should be a binary sensor if it only has two states.

mqtt:
  binary_sensor:
    - name: Sensor Pasillo - Occupancy
      state_topic: zigbee2mqtt/Sensor movimiento pasillo   
      device_class: occupancy
      value_template: "{{ value_json.occupancy }}"

Then change your trigger to:

  - alias: "Enciende pasillo cuando entras al pasillo de noche"
    id: "12365745523"
    mode: parallel
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id:
        - binary_sensor.sensor_pasillo_occupancy
      from: 'off'
      to: 'on'

If you don’t want to change to a binary sensor for some reason just change your trigger to:

  - alias: "Enciende pasillo cuando entras al pasillo de noche"
    id: "12365745523"
    mode: parallel
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id:
        - sensor.sensor_pasillo_occupancy
      from: 'false'
      to: 'true'

Also FYI when choosing a forum category:

Configuration: anything about configuring home assistant integrations, automations or scripts.
Configuration - Frontend: anything about configuring dashboards and cards.

5

Hello. Tried to create the binary entity and it says unknown. The sensor type entity detects between true and false when it happened but the automation is never triggered. I keep trying things but I don’t know where the problem is

6

By default, MQTT Binary Sensor expects to receive ON and OFF in order to report on/off (unlike a Template Binary Sensor which accepts a broader range of ‘truthy/falsey’ values by default)

In your example, either change the default values to true/false

mqtt:
  binary_sensor:
    - name: Sensor Pasillo - Occupancy
      state_topic: zigbee2mqtt/Sensor movimiento pasillo   
      device_class: occupancy
      value_template: "{{ value_json.occupancy }}"
      payload_on: true
      payload_off: false

Or modify the template:

      value_template: "{{ iif(value_json.occupancy, 'ON', 'OFF') }}"
7

It worked. Thank you very much for the help. Now I am going to see why in low light it does not activate but it is another problem.