Creating an automation with the GUI

Installation Home Assistant OS
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For poops and giggles I’m trying to create an automaton using the HA GUI. The goal of the automation is to send a notification anytime my thermostat has its HVAC mode changed. So I created a trigger with the GUI to do just that. Here is the YAML that was generated:

platform: device
device_id: 8d7662a4b4cb44a8aa674085061f1c61
domain: climate
entity_id: climate.living_room
type: hvac_mode_changed

And when I save I’m getting this error:

Message malformed: required key not provided @ data[‘to’]

If I change the trigger type to almost anything else, such as fan turned off the error goes away. Any suggestions?

2

Any solution to this?
For my testing, it seems that you need to add the ‘to’ mode field in the YAML editor, like:

platform: device
device_id: 8d7662a4b4cb44a8aa674085061f1c61
domain: climate
entity_id: climate.living_room
type: hvac_mode_changed
to: cool

But this defeats a little my purpose to have a single automation with the new hvac state notified to my phone. I can do it now by creating 1 automation per hvac mode I suppose.

3

Or you can use multiple triggers.

4

Good point! Can I get then the current HVAC mode to display it in my notification message?
Thanks