Garage door switch notification

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Hi,

Newbie question here… Could not find answer I want…

I put a switch on my garage door to sense open/close. I want to send a notification when it opens and when it closes. Problem is that it keep sending open messages… I cannot include time with ‘for:’, since it can be open a random time. I did include that for close.

Any ideas to send just one notification?

  • alias: garage open
    hide_entity: true
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: switch.garagepoort
    to: ‘on’
    action:
    service: notify.ios_iphone
    data:
    message: “garagepoort open!”

  • alias: garage dicht
    hide_entity: true
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: switch.garagepoort
    to: ‘off’
    for:
    minutes: 5
    action:
    service: notify.ios_iphone
    data:
    message: “garagepoort dicht!”

2

Include a from: off in your “garage open” automation and see if this solves your problem.

3

Hi Florian,

Thanks for the suggestion, I put it in both but I still get 2 messages at least… It is a RXTRX platform switch.

4

But you did put from: on in “garage dicht” right?

5

Yes, this is what I have now. I get two open messages AND a closed when I open the door! And closed + open when I close it… It is a CoCo switch. Should I use fire_event in the switch definition? I don’t understand that parameter.

  • alias: garage open
    hide_entity: true
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: switch.garagepoort
    from: ‘off’
    to: ‘on’
    action:
    service: notify.ios_iphone
    data:
    message: “garagepoort open!”

  • alias: garage dicht
    hide_entity: true
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: switch.garagepoort
    from: ‘on’
    to: ‘off’
    action:
    service: notify.ios_iphone
    data:
    message: “garagepoort dicht!”

6

I’ve never used an RFXtrx switch myself so anything I say is guessing only. You could try to set fire_event: false and check if that works. I’d also try to add for for 2 seconds to “debounce the signal” a little.

If nothing of that helps I’d suggest you reformat your post (see blue box at top about syntax highlighting) so we can make sure there is nothing wrong with the indentation.

7

Thanks for your suggestions! Putting in 2s for a delay works. Fire_event by itself did not. So here is the code that works:

- alias: garage open
  hide_entity: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: switch.garagepoort
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
    for:
      seconds: 2
  action:
    service: notify.ios_iphone
    data:
      message: "garagepoort open!"
      
- alias: garage dicht
  hide_entity: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: switch.garagepoort
    from: 'on'
    to: 'off'
    for:
      seconds: 2
  action:
    service: notify.ios_iphone
    data:
      message: "garagepoort dicht!"
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