Battery State Automation

Configuration
1

Hi

I want to turn off a light when I place my phone on charge but the automation below won’t work.

The battery state definitely changes when I place the phone on charge so I’m not sure what I’ve gone wrong.

Can anyone please help with where I’m going wrong with this?


- id: office_lamp_off
  alias: Office Lamp Off
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.iphone_battery_state
      to: “charging”
  action:
    - service: light.turn_off
      entity_id: light.play_bar_3
2

Ok, I’ve actually worked it out by trial and error. It was as simple as changing the ‘c’ in charging from lower to uppercase.

3

I’m surprised that was the only mistake. Your original example also uses curly quotes:

      to: “charging”

when it ought to use standard quotes (either double or single):

      to: "charging"
4

I think that must have been more to do with the copy and paste, for some reason, because I’ve checked the code and it shows standard quotes in HA.

5

This is quite probably the most common mistake made, although improper quote usage may tie it.