Hello, so I wanted to test the (then) new blueprint feature and wanted to create one. Helpful folks on Reddit helped me a lot but I still miss a little bit to make it work. I’m aware that I’m probably not the first to make it and I want to know what I am doing wrong (so I could do better next time). The idea is simple: certain sees movement and a turns on and sets its colour and brightness to values from text helper that contains a JSON ({"red":255,"green":0,"blue":0,"brightness":255} right now). After no longer sees movement, it waits for seconds and then in seconds dims the to zero brightness.
The blueprint is as follows:
blueprint:
name: Light Management
description: Turns light on on given signal
domain: automation
input:
motion_sensor:
name: Motion Sensor
description: Motion sensor that will cause the light to turn on
selector:
entity:
domain: binary_sensor
device_class: motion
target_light:
name: Light
description: Light that will be affected
selector:
target:
entity:
domain: light
default_values:
name: Default Light Values
description: Light values used to light up this light
selector:
text:
transition_time:
name: Transition Time
description: Time taken to dim the lights in seconds
default: 60
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 600
step: 1
mode: slider
unit_of_measurement: seconds
timeout:
name: Motion timeout
description: Time to leave the light on after last motion is detected.
default: 120
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 3600
unit_of_measurement: seconds
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: !input motion_sensor
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
- platform: state
entity_id: !input motion_sensor
from: 'on'
to: 'off'
for: !input timeout
action:
- variables:
command: '{{ trigger.to_state.state }}'
default_values: !input default_values
# default_values should be input_text with json like
# {"red":255,"green":0,"blue":0,"brightness":255}
- choose:
- conditions:
- '{{ command == "on" }}'
sequence:
- service: light.turn_on
entity_id: !input target_light
data:
brightness: >
{% set val = states(default_values) | from_json %}
# I guess my problem is here...
{{ val.brightness | int }}
# brightness: 255
rgb_color:
- '{{ val.red | int }}'
- '{{ val.green | int }}'
- '{{ val.blue | int }}'
# - 255
# - 0
# - 0
- conditions:
- '{{ command == "off" }}'
sequence:
- service: light.turn_off
data:
transition: !input transition_time
entity_id: !input target_light
So, what do I do wrong? And is it better to use JSON data than template light? I tried that as well but was not able to actually set any colour or brightness to it so I went to backup solution of JSON.
Thank you for any help.