Automation Based on Door Sensor and Sun State not working

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I am trying the following automation

if my garage door is opened between the Sunset and Sunrise I wanted to turn on the Garage light Switch.

I also wanted to turn of the lights 5 minutes after the door is closed, ( I haven’t added this part yet, as I am not sure how do do that)

Here is my Automation YAML

alias: Tun on the Garage Lights if Garage Entrance Door is open
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_door
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: sun
    after: sunset
    before: sunrise
action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: switch.garage_light_mss550x_main_channel
mode: single

My automation is not triggering or running, can someone tell me what am I doing wrong here? Also can you please guide me on what configuration I have to add to turn of the lights 5 mins after I close the door

2

I got this automation to work by changing the script to the following

 alias: 'Garage Light when door is opened '
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_door
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: or
    conditions:
      - condition: sun
        after: sunset
      - condition: sun
        before: sunrise
action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: switch.garage_light_mss550x_main_channel
mode: single

However still not sure how do I configure it to turn off 5 mins after closing the door, should I create another automation for it or can I get achieve it from single automation ?

3

you could add to the actions after turning light on and add a wait for state, door closed, delay 5 mins, turn off light.

This would mean the automation is always running all the time the door has been opened subject to the conditions set of course and I know some people don’t like leaving automations running for any great length of time in case of HA restarts or editing automations etc

So you could also if required make a separate automation that simply turns off light if state of door has been closed for 5 mins.

4

Try this:

 alias: 'Garage Light when door is opened '
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_door
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    state: above_horizon
action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: switch.garage_light_mss550x_main_channel
mode: single
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Thanks for the clarification @rossk, I added an additional automation to turn off the lights after the dorr sensor changes the state from on to off

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