Bit of advice using zone.home

Configuration
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Hi there I’m a newbie here and apologise if this has been asked elsewhere but I couldn’t see that it had. I’m setting up some automations to turn something off at night and also when people leave the house (this is a tapo plug) - plus reciprocally to turn it on in the morning and when people come home. So far so good.

For people leaving the house I’ve been using successfully the -zone.home to: "0" which is nice and clean because I don’t have to worry about specific users (e.g. sometimes people come to stay and I can just include them seamlessly.

So what I want to do is something really simple and I would like to use zone.home for it. In the morning I turn on tapo plug at 6:45 (i.e.

  - platform: time
    at: "06:45:00"
condition: null
action:
  - type: turn_on

but I also want to add a condition to check if home.zone is greater than 0 i.e. don’t turn on if no one is home. For the life of me I can’t figure out how to do that. Can someone please put me out of my misery (I’ve managed to add other conditions just not this one).

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To only turn the switch on if someone is home use a numeric state condition:

condition:
  - condition: numeric_state
    entity: zome.home
    above: 0

You can read about the other available conditions here:

And the different types of triggers are here:

And script syntax (same as automation actions) are here:

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Amazing thank you!

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and just to add the full set of code here incase it helps someone else - note that ‘entity’ in the example above should be (I think) ‘entity_id’. So I’m pretty sure this works for the whole yaml file

alias: HotTap_ON_morningAndSomeoneHome
description: Turn hot tap on in the morning
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "06:45:00"
condition: 
  - condition: numeric_state
    entity_id: zone.home
    above: 0
action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 23e00c86bf99bf929802935a18adbea8
    entity_id: switch.hot_tap
    domain: switch
mode: single
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Yes indeed. That was a mistake on my part.