Config Check Cryptic Error Message

Configuration
1

Trying to check the config results in the following error message:

Invalid config for [automation]: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data[‘condition’][0][‘condition’]. Got None. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 201). Please check the docs at Automation - Home Assistant

configuration.yaml at line 201 shows:

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml

and since the automations are all in the automation.yaml file I guess the error is in there.

Now what does the error message mean, really? Is there a

condition:
    condition:

missing?

Is there a better means to troubleshoot this than commenting out all automations until the error goes away? yamllint doesn’t show any syntactical errors in automations.yaml.

Best,
Axel

2

It is your automations file so it might help to post that

3

The main question was how to further troubleshoot without commenting out each and every automation until the config checker is satisfied.

Having done that I find the following culprit:

- alias: 'Wenn das Fenster wieder zu ist, dreh die Heizung wieder auf'
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.door_window_sensor_158d00016571fd
    from: 'on'
    to: 'off'
    for:
      minutes: 5
  condition:
    condition: template
    entity_id: sensor.temperature_158d00022cc550
    value_template: '{{ states.sensor.temperature_158d00022cc550 < 20 }}'
  action:
    - service: climate.set_temperature
      data:
        entity_id: climate.danfoss_z_thermostat_014g0013_heating_1
        temperature: 23
    - service: notify.Telegram
      data:
        message: "Badfenster ist zu, Heizung wieder auf 23°C gestellt."
4

Found it. The value_template: '{{ states.sensor.temperature_158d00022cc550 < 20 }}' was the offending line. It now reads:

  condition:
    # only if outside temp is less than 20°C
    condition: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.temperature_158d00022cc550
    value_template: '{{ states.sensor.temperature_158d00022cc550 }}'
    below: 20