Door open announcer

Configuration
1

I’ve been looking for hours how to do this… I have various binary sensors for windows & doors. I’ve defined an all_doors and all_windows groups. I am trying to create an automation which will announce (with tts.google_translate_say) which entity triggered it. So if the front door is opened, it will say, “Front door open”. I don’t know how to get the “friendly name” into the yaml and end the phrase with “opened”. From what I’ve cobbled together from others, this is what I have:

alias: Announce when a window or door is opened
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.all_doors
    to: open
condition: []
action:
  - service: tts.google_translate_say
    data_template:
      message: |-
        {% for entity in trigger.to_state.attributes.entity_id %}
          {% if states(entity) == 'open' %}
            {{ state_attr(entity, 'friendly_name') }} has been opened for 2 minutes
          {% endif %}
        {% endfor %}
      entity_id: media_player.google_max
mode: queued
max: 10

I get this error: Error: Error rendering data template: UndefinedError: ‘dict object’ has no attribute ‘to_state’. Thanks!!

2

Hi Chris,

While i’m not directly answering your question i thought i would share my example of something similar i created recently. I wanted to get pushover notifications when one of my external door or windows were opened while the alarm is armed. It’s using a similar concept i think. Maybe it will help you.

- id: '1618266282308'
  alias: 'security: alarm door or window open and notify'
  description: If alarm is armed & if motion notifications not paused, when an external
    door or window opens send pushover notification.
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow01
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow02
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow03
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow04
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow05
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow09
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow10
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow11
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow12
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow13
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow15
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow16
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow17
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow18
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow19
    - binary_sensor.doorwindow20
    - binary_sensor.sonoff_snzb04_01
    - binary_sensor.ikea_motion_01
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
  - platform: state
    entity_id: cover.sonoffsv_02
    from: closed
    to: open
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
    state: armed_away
  - condition: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.motion_notification_paused
    state: 'off'
  action:
  - service: script.notify_pushover_without_attachment
    data:
      title: 'Security: External door or window opened.'
      message: 'The door or window [ {{ trigger.to_state.name }} ] was opened while
        the alarm was armed.  Check if someone is home.'
  - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_trigger
    target:
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
  mode: queued
  max: 10

Cheers
Nick

3

Thanks! I used some of your code and got it working. Looks like it’s not possible to use a group how I was trying. I added each sensor individually as you did and it worked.

4

I was able to make your idea with the group work fine. You were very close but you just needed expand(), I think. Here’s what I did. I did it in the GUI. Edited the last step in YAML.

alias: Doors Unlocked Notification
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - lock.all_locks
    to: unlocked
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 10
      seconds: 0
condition: []
action:
  - repeat:
      while:
        - condition: state
          entity_id: lock.all_locks
          state: unlocked
      sequence:
        - service: notify.alexa_media_everywhere
          data:
            message: >-
              {%- for lock in expand(trigger.to_state.entity_id) -%}

              {%- if lock.state != "locked"
                and (now().timestamp() - as_timestamp(lock.last_changed)) >= trigger.for.total_seconds() -%}

              The {{ lock.name }} has been unlocked for {{ ((now().timestamp() -
              as_timestamp(lock.last_changed)) / 60) | int }} minutes.

              {% endif %}

              {% endfor %}
            data:
              type: announce
              method: all
        - delay: "{{ trigger.for.total_seconds() }}"
mode: single
max_exceeded: silent

Alexa announces “The Back Door Lock has been unlocked for 5 minutes.” just tested it.