Automation with pump water and two tanks

lscosta90br · June 6, 2018, 1:01pm

Dear,

I’m doing an automation for triggering tank1000’s pump in situations:

When the Tank3000 runs out of water and the
- “sensor up” on and
- “sensor down” on
  and
Tank1000 is with
- “sensor down” off

action

Turn on the “tank1000 relay” to refill the tank.

case

tank1000 is with the “sensor down” on
action
turns off the “tank1000 relay”.

follows code:

alias: "Tank water pump - on"
id: tank001
trigger:
   - platform: mqtt
     topic: 'stat / tank3000 / POWER2'
     payload: 'ON'
condition:
   condition: and
   conditions:
     - condition: state
       entity_id: switch.tank3000_sensor_up
       state: 'ON'
     - condition: state
       entity_id: switch.tank1000_sensor_down
       state: 'OFF'
action:
   service: switch.turn_on
   entity_id: switch.tank1000_relay

configuration of tanks:

tank1000

Toggle1 = relay
Toggle2 = sensor up
Toggle3 = sensor down

Sensors:
toggle2 e toggle3
off = tank with water
on = tank without water

tank3000

Toggle1 = sensor up
Toggle2 = sensor down

Sensors:
toggle1 e toggle2
off = tank with water
on = tank without water

lolouk44 · June 6, 2018, 2:12pm

What exactly is your question? I’m not sure what it is that you’re after…

lscosta90br · June 6, 2018, 4:11pm

My automation is not working.
I wonder what’s wrong!

Thank you

keithh666 · June 6, 2018, 10:00pm

I don’t think you can have spaces in your topic.

lscosta90br · June 6, 2018, 10:46pm

Thank you,

was check in the code and does not have this space, it was a small typo.Thank you,

was check in the code and does not have this space, it was a small typo.

‘stat/tank3000/POWER2’

keithh666 · June 6, 2018, 10:48pm

check inthe state table that your state and topic payload are actually “ON” and not “on” etc.

lscosta90br · June 6, 2018, 10:52pm

“ctrl +c” and “ctrl +v”

alias: "Tank water pump - on"
id: tank001
trigger:
  - platform: mqtt
    topic: 'stat/tank3000/POWER2'
    payload: 'ON' 
condition:
  condition: and
  conditions:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: switch.tank3000_sensor_up
      state: 'ON'
    - condition: state
      entity_id: switch.tank1000_sensor_down
      state: 'OFF'
action: 
  service: switch.turn_on
  entity_id: switch.tank1000_relay

lscosta90br · June 6, 2018, 11:00pm

Checked !! OK !!

keithh666 · June 6, 2018, 11:02pm

Are your sensors switches or sensors? and are the names correct as stated in the switches/sensors part of the state table?

lscosta90br · June 6, 2018, 11:38pm

Yes they are.
The sensors are reed switch.
All the names are declared correctly and I simulate the states.

keithh666 · June 6, 2018, 11:41pm

How do you do this?

lscosta90br · June 6, 2018, 11:44pm

Actuating the sensors!

keithh666 · June 7, 2018, 9:45am

- condition: state 
  entity_id: switch.tank3000_sensor_up 
  state: 'ON' 
- condition: state 
  entity_id: switch.tank1000_sensor_down 
  state: 'OFF'

I suspect the reason it isn’t triggering is that the states need to be ‘on’ and ‘off’.

If you look in the states table, you will find the only things that are uppercase are any input_selects that you have defined as uppercase. At least that’s the case in mine

lscosta90br · June 7, 2018, 12:13pm

Keithh66,

I will describe my simulation scenario:

tank3000

###### Tank3000    
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "tank3000 sensor up"
    state_topic: "stat/tank3000/POWER1"
    command_topic: "cmnd/tank3000/POWER1"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    retain: true    
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "tank3000 sensor down'"
    state_topic: "stat/tank3000/POWER2"
    command_topic: "cmnd/tank3000/POWER2"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    retain: true

####################
tank1000

###### Tank1000
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "tank1000 relay"
    state_topic: "stat/tank1000/POWER1"
    command_topic: "cmnd/tank1000/POWER1"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    retain: true
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "tank1000 sensor up"
    state_topic: "stat/tank1000/POWER2"
    command_topic: "cmnd/tank1000/POWER2"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    retain: true
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "tank1000 sensor down"
    state_topic: "stat/tank1000/POWER3"
    command_topic: "cmnd/tank1000/POWER3"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    retain: true

In this situation I would like automation to trigger relay tank1000:

In this situation I would like the automation to work!
As you can see, the relay was not activated.

What I would like automation to do would be:

but unfortunately it does not happen !:

here is the automation code:

alias: "Tank water pump - on"
id: tank001
trigger:
  - platform: mqtt
    topic: 'stat/tank3000/POWER2'
    payload: 'ON' 
condition:
  condition: and
  conditions:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: switch.tank3000_sensor_up
      state: 'ON'
    - condition: state
      entity_id: switch.tank1000_sensor_down
      state: 'OFF'
action: 
  service: switch.turn_on
  data:
    entity_id: switch.tank1000_relay

lscosta90br · June 7, 2018, 3:20pm

I found the error:

had a ’
in:

     name: "tank3000 sensor down'"

for

     name: "tank3000 sensor down"

Thank you for your help !!

keithh666 · June 7, 2018, 6:21pm

Glad you got it working , next time post all of the config not just what you think is not working