Automation - Lights not turning on

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Hello,

I have a Phillips Hue motion sensor and Phillips Hue lights. The motion sensor detects temperature how much light there is available (in units of “lx”)

I created a automation that turns the lights on is the “lx” value of the motion sensor goes below 10. Here is what I have:

  • When: When master bedroom sensor Illuminance is above 0 and below 10
  • And If: (blank)
  • Then do: Call service ‘Light: Turn On’ Lights (Living Room)

I have checked when the Illumiance drops below 10 but the lights do not turn on (there is nothing even entered in the log book). If I go into Automation, click on the three vertical dots on this automation and click “Run” the lights do in fact turn on, so there is nothing wrong with the “Then do” action, at least.

I am not sure what else to do to troubleshoot this? I do intend t add a couple of Conditions (“And If”), but wanted to get the basic automation itself working first.

Any insight appreciated. Thanks! :slight_smile:

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What does the trace tell you?

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Ah, didn’t know about that. Just took a look and I think I see the issue. I will wait to see if it triggers tomorrow.

(Looks like a couple of conditions that I added previously but thought I disabled them; looks like that wa snot the case, and one of them was returning “false”. I have deleted the conditions to make absolutely sure they can’t interfere)

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I also use a Philips motion sensor (9290030675)

my problem is, that the (lx) only changes the value in a distance of 1-5 minutes.
I dont know how I can trigger the enity illuminance to change the value more often…

Could be this maybe also a problem of your automation?

btw this is my automation, if you want to use it :slight_smile:

alias: Deckenlampe Flur Tag
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.bewegungsmelder_flur_occupancy
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
    id: Bewegung erkannt
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.bewegungsmelder_flur_occupancy
    from: "on"
    to: "off"
    id: keine Bewegung mehr erkannt
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 30
condition: []
action:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: and
            conditions:
              - condition: trigger
                id:
                  - Bewegung erkannt
              - condition: time
                after: "05:30:00"
                before: "22:30:00"
        sequence:
          - service: light.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: light.deckenlampe_flur
            data:
              brightness_pct: 100
      - conditions:
          - condition: and
            conditions:
              - condition: trigger
                id:
                  - Bewegung erkannt
              - condition: time
                after: "22:30:00"
                before: "05:30:00"
        sequence:
          - service: light.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: light.deckenlampe_flur
            data:
              brightness_pct: 15
      - conditions:
          - condition: and
            conditions:
              - condition: state
                entity_id: light.deckenlampe_flur
                state: "on"
              - condition: trigger
                id:
                  - keine Bewegung mehr erkannt
        sequence:
          - service: light.turn_off
            metadata: {}
            data: {}
            target:
              entity_id:
                - light.deckenlampe_flur
mode: restart