Automation: Using a Group as a Trigger not working/bug

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Hi All,

Have been pulling my hair out over this one. Basically I have 3 devices I want to track in a group called “phones”. Based on this group I have an automation to shut off all the lights if the group state becomes “not_home”. The group state changes just find but the automation does not trigger.

The automation used to work but only realized it stopped working when showing off HA to friends at a restaurant and the lights were still on.

The Automation

  - alias: 'Lights Off When Away'
    initial_state: True
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: group.phones
        to: 'not_home'
    condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: input_boolan.guest_mode
        state: 'off'
    action:
      - service: light.turn_off
        entity_id: group.all_lights

The Group

  phones:
    name: Phones
    entities:
      - device_tracker.first_phone
      - device_tracker.second_phone
      - device_tracker.third_phone

The Group changing state
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Any help is appreciated!

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Look at the dev-states page and see if the automation state shows as “on”.

And if it is then make sure the state for the group actually goes to “not_home” instead of some other state.

And I just noticed that you have the wrong entity_id in your condition. You have “input_boolan”. It should be “input_boolean”. I’m not sure if that would prevent it from triggering because I don’t know how the automation system handles non-existent entities in a condition but it’s something that needs fixed regardless.

And I also just noticed that you are probably using the wrong service in the action. I’m pretty sure I think you need to use homeassistant.turn_off turn off a group. That might be OK since they are all lights in the group but I would change it just to be sure.

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Just restarting HA now to see if that spelling error was the problem!

4

OH MY GOD! It was the spelling error! Thankyou for picking up on my misreading I was so annoyed that this seemingly simple automation did not work for weeks!