I moved over from your other topic, and just wanted to give you some beginners tips. ![]()
And “Welcome to the forum!” btw… ![]()
The thing with Home Assistant is the steep learning curve. Many things can be done in HA, but a lot of these require some basic understanding of the underlying techniques.
That leads to the unfortunate thing, that people look for something, strand with a video, but the techniques used are either outdated (as you saw in the other post) or not really suited for beginners. It’s practically impossible for new users, to see that difference.
Long story short, start with basics and work your way up over time.
Taking your automation as an example, don’t use trigger_ids in the beginning. If you want to have two different things done, make two automations. Work with easy understandable things, like a state trigger. Don’t get yourself confused with lists of triggers or things like that. Make an automation for one device with one trigger. See if this works as expected an build upon it.
I think you get what I mean.
The learning curve is step enough, why complicate things in the beginning, when there is time for these details later on, after a little knowledge is gathered.
And on a seperate note: Don’t use device_ids at all!
See here for more information:
Not to forget the Cookbook itself, you can find some interesting topics there: