Can't trigger automation based on the LaCrosse humidity sensor value

Configuration
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Hello world,

I am currently transitioning from FHEM to Home Assistant, making a good share of progress so far. However, I am running into a particular problem with an automation that is meant to toggle a switch based on the humidity value provided by a TX 29 DTH-IT sensor. While I may be familiar with home automation, I am rather new to Home Assistant.

What I did so far:

  1. Successfully integrated two sensors using the following in configuration.yaml (which is based on the integration description). Both sensors show up with 3 entities each under the LaCrosse integration providing reliable values, including humidity.
sensor:
  - platform: lacrosse
    device: /dev/serial/by-id/usb-FTDI_FT232R_USB_UART_AI04NTON-if00-port0
    baud: 57600
    sensors:
      waschkueche_lacrosse_humidity:
        name: Waschküche Feuchtigkeit
        type: humidity
        id: 22
      waschkueche_lacrosse_temperature:
        name: Waschküche Temperatur
        type: temperature
        id: 22
      waschkueche_lacrosse_battery:
        name: Waschküche Sensor Batterie
        type: battery
        id: 22
      herrenzimmer_lacrosse_humidity:
        name: Herrenzimmer Feuchtigkeit
        type: humidity
        id: 28
      herrenzimmer_lacrosse_temperature:
        name: Herrenzimmer Temperatur
        type: temperature
        id: 28
      herrenzimmer_lacrosse_battery:
        name: Herrenzimmer Sensor Batterie
        type: battery
        id: 28
  1. Set up the following automation via the GUI. My expected result for the automation would be that once the humidity hits the value of 60% the switch is turned on and turned off via versa when it hits 55%.
id: '1740741754431'
alias: Feuchtigkeit Waschküche steuern
description: ''
triggers:
  - trigger: numeric_state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.waschkueche_lacrosse_humidity
    above: 60
    id: Zu hoch
  - trigger: numeric_state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.waschkueche_lacrosse_humidity
    below: 55
    id: Ausreichend trocken
conditions: []
actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - Zu hoch
        sequence:
          - type: turn_on
            device_id: 37149536fb7a46b73b3a39625ad0cf17
            entity_id: 7088c2bd2c0c11a9c674bd2f187d2f5a
            domain: switch
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - Ausreichend trocken
        sequence:
          - type: turn_off
            device_id: 37149536fb7a46b73b3a39625ad0cf17
            entity_id: 7088c2bd2c0c11a9c674bd2f187d2f5a
            domain: switch
mode: single

However, the automation never triggers, even with the actual humidity values being within the trigger ranges.

  1. I looked up the humidity entity under the developer tools because I thought that the percentage denomination might some sort a problem, but the humidity is solely presented as a value.

I’m not sure whether this is a problem related to the integration or related to my humble automation attempts in Home Assistant. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Heko

2

You may also want to take a look at the Generic Hygrostat integration instead of using an automation.

3

Thanks for your prompt reply. Actually the automation is working, and it is correctly missing the trigger. The reason is that at the moment, the actual humidity is above 60 percent, and it won’t be triggered until it changes from below 60 to 60 or greater.