Need a bit of help - how would I trigger an automation that does something after a trigger and time period has elapsed?
I want to send a message if my garage door has been left open for longer than 5 minutes, I tried this
- alias: Send Message - Garage
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.garage door
to: 'on'
condition:
condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.garage door
state: 'on'
for:
minutes: 5
action:
- service: telegram_bot.send_message
data_template:
target: -xxxxx
message:
The garage door has been left open for longer than 5 minutes
Your code will never work because the condition is tested when the trigger happens. And in this case, the condition requires the door to have been opened for 5 minutes at the exact time it opens, which is impossible. Luckily, though, the solution is even simpler: Just use the for:
parameter with the trigger and delete the condition:
- alias: Send Message - Garage
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.garage door
to: 'on'
for:
minutes: 5
action:
- service: telegram_bot.send_message
data_template:
target: -xxxxx
message: The garage door has been left open for longer than 5 minutes
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Perfect, working
I didn’t think the above would work - I initially only had the For in the condition - none of the rest… but got errors
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I know I’m a little late to the party here, but I wanted to offer an alternative solution because of the additional benefit of providing multiple notifications with just one setup, i.e. not even an automation:
#######################################################################
# Alert for Garage Door having been open for more than 5 minutes
alert:
garage_door_open_long:
name: Garage Door is still open!
entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_door_sensor
state: 'off' # Optional, 'on' is the default value
repeat: 5
can_acknowledge: true # Optional, default is true
skip_first: true # Optional, false is the default
notifiers:
- mypushbullet
This setup (in the configuration.yaml not as an automation) sends me a message not just once, but every 5 minutes, details for the configuration are here:
I know that others have had difficulties to get it to work but for me it works flawlessly.
Thanks - I’ll look into it - haven’t used Alerts at all - and I do quite a few automation that do alerting.