hello,
I have two air condition units and when I turn them on I check for windows status.
If some of the windows are open, I play a notification via TTS at alexa and then turn them off.
Here is the code am using to achieve it:
alias: Air condition state and windows open
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- climate.attic_left
- climate.attic_right
to: cool
from: 'off'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: group.attic_windows_status
state: 'on'
action:
- data:
target:
- media_player.attic
- media_player.bedroom
- media_player.living_room
data:
type: tts
message: >-
Attention! The air condition has been turned on but the windows at attic
are still open. Please close them otherwise it will turn off
automatically within 60 seconds.
service: notify.alexa_media
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 1
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
- service: climate.turn_off
data: {}
target:
entity_id:
- climate.attic_left
- climate.attic_right
mode: single
My problem is that it doesn’t work all the time.
I can’t figure out why. Any ideas please?
what is ‘it’ … is the airo status not properly registered or the room-opening not properly registered and doesn’t it play tts or ? Please try to be specific where it hangs, e.g. check in the automation trace what happened and where it stopped. Try triggering it multiple times
I revise my automation and using the following codes seems to work better
alias: Air condition state cool and the windows opened
description: the windows are opened and someone has turned on the air condition
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- climate.attic_left
- climate.attic_right
to: cool
from: 'off'
- platform: state
entity_id:
- group.attic_windows_status
to: 'on'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.door_and_window_sensor_2618
- binary_sensor.door_and_window_sensor_7f69
- binary_sensor.door_and_window_sensor_7ef0
- binary_sensor.door_and_window_sensor_2e34
match: any
state: 'on'
- condition: state
entity_id:
- climate.attic_left
- climate.attic_right
match: any
state: cool
action:
- data:
target:
- media_player.attic
- media_player.bedroom
- media_player.living_room
data:
type: tts
message: >-
Attention! The air condition has been turned on but the windows at attic
are still open. Please close them otherwise it will turn off
automatically within 60 seconds.
service: notify.alexa_media
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 1
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
- service: climate.turn_off
data: {}
target:
entity_id:
- climate.attic_left
- climate.attic_right
mode: single
Now it doesn’t matter if I open windows first or air condition.
No matter what the trigger is, it will go through from both triggers and eventually if the a/c is on and windows are opened, or someone opens the windows while the a/c is on, the a/c will turned off automatically within 60 seconds.
Please if you can see an error, or a scenario that it will make it not to work let me know
If the triggering works/tested fine for you, then imho the only thing you need to add is an AND statement in the condition.
Because you now added the windows as a trigger you need to verify if cooling and windows open…which may sound weird because it triggered on window open…but it is needed as the condition does not know why it triggered…either window or cooling, hence it needs to check both conditions.
I would also remove the ‘from’ state, if the target is ‘cool’ then it does not matter where it came from. Adding a from reduces it to only trigger then, e.g. not when it goes from any other possible state (? on/unknown) to cool.
Something like below, use the gui and in conditions select AND
alias: Air condition state and windows open
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- climate.attic_left
- climate.attic_right
to: cool
- platform: state
entity_id:
- group.attic_windows_status
to: 'on'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: group.attic_windows_status
state: 'on'
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id:
- climate.attic_left
- climate.attic_right
match: any
state: cool
