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Hi all, I am working on updating the delivered Motion Light blueprint to use scenes instead of lights, which worked great. I am now trying to add an input to not trigger if the selected light entity is on. I am getting a Message malformed: Expected a dictionary @ data[‘condition’][0] error when saving the automation when using the template. I am not seeing where the error is.

blueprint:
  name: Motion-activated Light - Advanced
  description: Turn on a light when motion is detected.
  domain: automation
  author: Home Assistant
  input:
    motion_entity:
      name: Motion Sensor
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: binary_sensor
          device_class: motion
    scene_on_target:
      name: Scene On
      selector:
        target:
          entity:
            domain: scene
    scene_off_target:
      name: Scene Off
      selector:
        target:
          entity:
            domain: scene
    no_motion_wait:
      name: Wait time
      description: Time to leave the light on after last motion is detected.
      default: 120
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0
          max: 3600
          unit_of_measurement: seconds
    light_to_ignore:
      name: Light Check
      description: Choose a light that if it is on, do not activate scene
      default: 
      selector:
        target:
          entity:
            domain: light

# If motion is detected within the delay,
# we restart the script.
mode: restart
max_exceeded: silent

trigger:
  platform: state
  entity_id: !input motion_entity
  from: "off"
  to: "on"

condition: and
conditions:
  - condition: sun
    before: sunrise
    after: sunset
  - condition: state
    entity_id: !input light_to_ignore 
    state: "off"  

action:
  - alias: "Activate On Scene"
    service: scene.turn_on
    target: !input scene_on_target
  - alias: "Wait until there is no motion from device"
    wait_for_trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: !input motion_entity
      from: "on"
      to: "off"
  - alias: "Wait the number of seconds that has been set"
    delay: !input no_motion_wait
  - alias: "Activate Off Scene"
    service: scene.turn_on
    target: !input scene_off_target
2

You are basing this on an old version of that blueprint. I suggest starting with the current version.

After that you are using target selectors as inputs and entitys in the actions. These are not the same things. Pick one or the other.

3

Thanks, I am not too worried about it being based off old version as the version I based it off of was 2023.09. Everything works when I remove my light_to_ignore, this is the new part I am trying to add. I changed the input for that to an entity instead of target and still seeing the same error:

blueprint:
  name: Motion-activated Light - Advanced
  description: Turn on a light when motion is detected.
  domain: automation
  author: Home Assistant
  input:
    motion_entity:
      name: Motion Sensor
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: binary_sensor
          device_class: motion
    scene_on_target:
      name: Scene On
      selector:
        target:
          entity:
            domain: scene
    scene_off_target:
      name: Scene Off
      selector:
        target:
          entity:
            domain: scene
    no_motion_wait:
      name: Wait time
      description: Time to leave the light on after last motion is detected.
      default: 120
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0
          max: 3600
          unit_of_measurement: seconds
    light_to_ignore:
      name: Light Check
      description: Choose a light that if it is on, do not activate scene
      default:
      selector:
        entity:
          multiple: true
          filter:
            - domain: light
#      default:
#      selector:
#        #target:
#        entity:
#          domain: light
#    boolean_offset:
#      name: Trigger only when Sun is down
#      description: Only activate the scene if the sun is down
#      default: false
#      selector:
#        boolean:

# If motion is detected within the delay,
# we restart the script.
mode: restart
max_exceeded: silent

trigger:
  platform: state
  entity_id: !input motion_entity
  from: "off"
  to: "on"

condition: and
conditions:
  - condition: sun
    before: sunrise
    after: sunset
  - condition: state
    entity_id: !input light_to_ignore
    state: "off"

action:
  - alias: "Activate On Scene"
    service: scene.turn_on
    target: !input scene_on_target
  - alias: "Wait until there is no motion from device"
    wait_for_trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: !input motion_entity
      from: "on"
      to: "off"
  - alias: "Wait the number of seconds that has been set"
    delay: !input no_motion_wait
  - alias: "Activate Off Scene"
    service: scene.turn_on
    target: !input scene_off_target
4

You’ll wish you had when the code that was changed completes deprecation and it stops working. It’s just a matter of adding the key filter: in a couple of places…

As far as the error goes,

You have to look at the error and figure out which key it is pointing to for the error. It will telly if you look at it, Something like action[0] service[2], etc these count from top to bottom and 0 to how many.

The first error I think pointed to the light_to_ignore input, but you didn’t provide a clue for the second one.

It might have something to do with that you have multiple on, so that makes a list, and not sure that you are expecting a list in the rest of the code.