Automation with input_boolean help?

Configuration
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Hey folks,

I’ve got an automation that looks like so:

  • alias: Morning Lights downstairs
    trigger:
    platform: time
    after: ‘05:15:00’
    condition:
    condition: and
    conditions:
    - condition: state
    entity_id: group.parent_devices
    state: ‘home’
    - condition: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.disable_wakeup
    state: ‘off’
    action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_on
    entity_id:
    - switch.basement

and an input_boolean configured like so:

input_boolean:
disable_wakekup:
name: Disable Basement Wake-up Light
initial: off
icon: mdi:lightbulb

I’m using the 'home" state for those devices in multiple other automations, so I suspect that’s not the issue. Regardless of the state of that input boolean, if its state is included as a condition in the automation, it never fires.

I gotta believe I’m missing something simple. Help?

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3

Sorry about that:

- alias: Morning Lights downstairs
   trigger:
       platform: time
       after: '05:15:00'
   condition:
       condition: or
       conditions:
         - condition: state
           entity_id: group.parent_devices
           state: 'home'
         - condition: state
           entity_id: input_boolean.disable_wakeup
           state: 'off'
   action:
       service: homeassistant.turn_on
       entity_id: 
        - switch.basement

and

input_boolean:
  disable_wakekup:
    name: Disable Basement Wake-up Light
    initial: off 
    icon: mdi:lightbulb
4

Nothing to apologize for - most new posters aren’t aware of how that works and that’s why I made the image.

One thing to check - go to your dev states panel and make sure that the state of the input boolean is actually ‘off’ and not ‘Off’. Case makes a difference.

5

head down on desk

Note: disable_wakekup is NOT the same as disable_wakeup

I suspect the problem I was having was related to terrible typing. I’ll update this post either way.

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6

Again, this is a mistake we have all made here. Just part of the experience… :smiley:

I had mentioned the case because I had the same issue and someone pointed it out to me.

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Proofreading is important. Once I had the correct name of the input_boolean in the condition, everything worked as expected.

I’m a little surprised there’s no error in the HASS log about an invalid item in the automation.yaml though.

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HA errors aren’t always the most descriptive. I once had HA not start up because I copied and pasted a script with a degree symbol in it. No error log at all. Turned out it couldn’t start because the degree symbol was not in UTF-8 format but no error message to that effect except from systemctl. After I figured it out which file it was and corrected it, I posted a error and it was addressed.

But this is a heads up to people that copy and paste example scripts - make sure the editor you use can specifically save files in UTF-8 format.