Yep, more or less what I expected.
(Love the “Little Britain” quote)
I don’t (and never have) used the web interface of HA to edit files (it only ever seems to like you putting stuff in one place - not where I want it). So I cant help you there. (I started out on this before there was such an interface and have moved (only a little bit) past where it could have helped me.
Don’t take the config warnings TOOOO literally. I’ve had issues 4 lines before the stated line and once 20 lines after. But from what it’s hinting at, it sounds like an indenting problem rather than syntax.
So I’ll just correct that and we’ll work from there.
Top right of the following code box is a little icon that will say “copy to clipboard” when you hover over it. Copy it and paste it over what we are replacing then run your check again.
- id: '1566298789438'
alias: Guesthouse dimmen om 00:00:00
trigger:
- platform: time
at: "00:00:00"
action:
- service: light.turn_on
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch_2
- service: scene.turn_on
entity_id: scene.Guesthouse_Dim
- id: '1566303950332'
alias: Hek dimmen om 00:00:00
trigger:
- platform: time
at: "00:00:00"
action:
- service: scene.turn_on
entity_id: scene.Hek_Dim
- id: '1566314038315'
alias: Zon onder
trigger:
- platform: sun
event: sunset
action:
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch
- service: switch.turn_on ## should these not be "light"s ?
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhdd1_flush_dimmer_switch ## should these not be "light"s ?
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch_2
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch_4
- service: switch.turn_on ## should these not be "light"s ?
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhdd1_flush_dimmer_switch_2 ## should these not be "light"s ?
- id: '1566314814044'
alias: Zon op
trigger:
- platform: sun
event: sunrise
action:
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch
- service: switch.turn_off ## should these not be "light"s ?
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhdd1_flush_dimmer_switch ## should these not be "light"s ?
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch_2
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch_4
- service: switch.turn_off ## should these not be "light"s ?
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhdd1_flush_dimmer_switch_2 ## should these not be "light"s ?
- id: '1566315078053'
alias: na 00:00:00
trigger:
- platform: time
at: "00:00:00"
action:
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch
- id: '1566418818385'
alias: GoGoGate open licht aan
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: cover.hek
from: "closed"
to: "open"
condition:
- condition: time
after: "00:00:00"
action:
- service: scene.turn_on
entity_id: scene.garden_lights_bright
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch
- id: '1566423130786'
alias: GoGoGate dicht licht uit
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: cover.hek
from: "open"
to: "closed"
condition:
- condition: time
after: "00:00:00"
- condition: state
entity_id: sun.sun
state: 'below_horizon
action:
- service: scene.turn_on
entity_id: scene.garden_lights_dim
- delay:
minutes: 1
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.qubino_goap_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch
There seems to be dimmers in here and they are usually lights not switches.
This and the fact that some of your elements are out of sequence and/or randomly indented make me think this is a hodge podge of both generated and manually inserted code.
Do you see how much neater and easier to read my code is ?
It also looks like you have not configured any entities as you added them, this will make it very difficult for you to tie up what sensor - where for what purpose.
Is this your house or are you pulling this together for the owner ?
@RemcovanKuilenburg, we have to get you to start doing this manually. I have never used it like @Mutt, because I also started before the option was available. I have taken the route to split my config, it makes thing a lot easier to deal with in my opinion.
It seems the web automation directly in Homeassistant is causing quite some confusion, because when you paste back what I have had you copy in it jumble things around, not sure why, but if you look at example in the Homeassistant Docs, none of them have that jumbled order.
When I checked the config I was using version 97.2, so that could make a difference as well. For the record what version are you using of Homeassistant? Hopefully using the code @Mutt has supplied will get the job done.
@Mutt, I hate quotes, I never know which to use, in the very beginning it seems like it really mattered, but now a days it doesn’t seem to matter too much, until it doesn’t work : )
Quotes - Yeah, I agree, then you have to ‘comb’ through to find the error… Which when you find it is so very subtle But the interpreter found it so it knows what it was. But it doesn’t tell you what it was it usually just says "missing scalar’ or some such.
I’m worried here that some devices have been ‘stuffed’ in by hand and he’s assumed they are all switches.
This probably won’t work
Yes that is much nicer. I have tried this and also get an error when testing it.
Error loading /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml: expected ‘’, but found ‘’
in “/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/automations.yaml”, line 12, column 1
I have tried to call the lights but they did not switch on or off then. This setup is working and will start tweaking when it al works. Also the names and not the idents.
good catch, probably because I didn’t like his use of 0:00 so I changed it to “00:00:00”
My Bad : - (((((
There are other instances of that in alias’ aswell, he may need to replace those similarly
Mutt
Funny bit is that this is also used in line 2 of the code. And that is not stopping the action. I have changed now into 0:00 and try to reboot.
Big failure and no UI. Deleted the GoGogate part and no UI after reboot. So something in this code is not working like it should
The messy out of the UI automation did always work so not bad at all.
try to avoid any special characters in your aliases then (I’m thinking about the “:” here)
Just letters, numbers and underscores (never start with a number either, it’s just bad practice)
So back to my old automation without the GoGoGate part and working like a dream as it always did. Also checking config gives all lights green.
Now adding the part of GoGoGate and get this lines after checking
Error loading /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml: mapping values are not allowed here
in “/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/automations.yaml”, line 74, column 12
Wow wow hold your horses I’m not complaining or try to get you upset. But it is funny that the comment was that my yaml file was a mess. Explained that it comes out of the UI like that, hey I’m not a programmer and totally new to this, you give me a nicer looking yaml file and that is not working. So to make a joke I just said that that is funny. Messy is working and nice not.
So for now. Line 74 is - platform: state that gives an error.
that is a completely legitimate line but given your file, I’m not convinced that the YAML is correctly indented.
You need to post from say 5 lines before that to 10 lines after.
I see from your posted files that you are still using the automation editor, despite what we advised.
It’s okay if you only follow ‘part of our advice’. But the best you can then hope for is ‘part of a solution’
Looking at your Gogate automation that you are using:
I see that your are using "00:00:00 " around your time and I dont think you can do that, it has to be single quotes ’ 00:00:00’. This is why I hate quotes.
For your time statement you are using at: ‘00:00:00’, and i do not believe that is allowed anymore, way back when yes, but now you have to use before: ‘00:00:00’ and/or after ‘00:00:00’.
I wish I could just run over to your house, and help you through this : )
