Automation to turn on light if someone is at home not triggering

Configuration
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Hi all,
I want to set a Hue scene when I OR my wife enter at home after sunset.
I used multiple triggers 'cause on HA site I read “Whenever one of the triggers fires, your rule is executed.”, one trigger is a zone trigger, the other one is nmap trigger.
I turned off wi-fi on my iPhone to set it “not_home” and after I turned on wi-fi, but the scene is not activated, if I activate the automation manually it works.
Here my code:

   alias: Rientro a casa
      trigger:
      - entity_id: device_tracker.n9q7n16708000135
        event: enter
        platform: zone
        zone: zone.home
      - entity_id: device_tracker.damianostation
        from: not_home
        platform: state
        to: home
      condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: sun.sun
        state: below_horizon
      action:
      - alias: ''
        data:
          group_name: Sala da pranzo
          scene_name: 70 per cento
        service: hue.hue_activate_scene

Where is the problem?

2

You need to check if/when the device_tracker entity associated with your iPhone changes state between home and not_home. It’s very possible turning the phone’s WiFi off and on didn’t cause a state change in the device_tracker. You may have to leave it off longer (for the state to change to not_home), and you may have to wait a while after turning it on (for the state to change back to home.) WiFi based presence detection (e.g., NMap) on phones, and iPhones in particular, are notoriously slow to respond from what I read.

3

Yes, I waited till the state changed to not_home and then I turned on wi-fi on my iPhone, so the state changed to home but the scene was not activated…

4

Did you actually see the state change to home, or did you assume it must have because you turned the wi-fi back on? Just because you turned the wi-fi back on does not mean the corresponding device_tracker entity (immediately) changed state to home.

If you iPhone is represented by device_tracker.damianostation, and you made it actually change states to not_home and then home, and sun.sun’s state was below_horizon, then the automation should have triggered (if it was on), and the action should have run. If it didn’t run then one of those assumptions are false.

5

I have the sensor in my HA interface and I waited till it changed to “fuori”, italian state for not_home, and then I turned on my wi-fi and the state changed to “a casa” (at home), I checked it some hours after sunset and the sun was obviously below_horizon. So, I was sure about the state of my nmap sensor.
The code in the config file is:

   - platform: nmap_tracker
        hosts:
         - 192.168.1.19
         - 192.168.1.9
         - 192.168.1.24
        home_interval: 5

where 192.168.1.24 is the IP dedicated to my iPhone.
It should check every 5 minutes for the host IPs listed.

6

And does this IP address correspond to device_tracker.damianostation?

You say “sensor”. But do you mean device_tracker.damianostation?

7

Yes, this is the group I create:

 Devices:
   name: Dispositivi
   entities:
     - sensor.battery_iphone_antonio
     - sensor.battery_iphone
     - sensor.battery_p9
     - sensor.damiano_battery_level
     - sensor.battery_status_iphone
     - sensor.battery_status_iphone_di_antonio
     - sensor.damiano_battery_state
     - device_tracker.damianostation 
     - device_tracker.huawei_p9_plusstation

There are battery sensors and device_tracker sensors, as you can see in the picture below: in this case the state is home
Devices

8

Then if you haven’t changed the automation since your original post, and you verified that device_tracker.damianostation changed from not_home to home, and you verified that sun.sun is below_horizon, then the only other possibilities I can think of that would prevent the action from running are: 1) the automation is off, or 2) you need to quote not_home and home in from: and to:.

I know that some states can get automatically converted to True or False if not quoted, so you might try adding quotes to these lines like this:

      - entity_id: device_tracker.damianostation
        from: 'not_home'
        platform: state
        to: 'home'

If that doesn’t fix it, and you’ve verified the automation is turned on, then I’m stumped.

9

It seems now it works, I don’t know if quotes really fix this issue, anyway every time I edit the automation using the UI HA removes the quotes and I need to edit the file manually