HA Conditions issue

Configuration
1

Hi guys

I have a automation setup that when that when HA detects my Emby media player as ether “idle” or “off” to proceed to the next part of the automation however it just seems to stop and not follow on to the next step.

Here is the yaml code snippet of what I mean

condition: and
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.emby_eoghan_s_fire_tv_cube
    state: idle
  - condition: or
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: media_player.emby_eoghan_s_fire_tv_cube
        state: 'off'

Here is also the full code to the automation

 - id: '1645763271031'
   alias: Turn Everything Off
   description: ''
   trigger:
   - platform: device
     domain: mqtt
     device_id: 071aad0d25a0b1dd8bf30d1ce36cec48
     type: action
     subtype: single
     discovery_id: 0x00124b00239f20fe action_single
   - platform: device
     domain: mqtt
     device_id: 7237e2b8244dfc0ed7f111477ec0e073
     type: action
     subtype: double_right
     discovery_id: 0x54ef4410002a30bc action_double_right
   condition: []
   action:
   - type: turn_off
     device_id: b005053c47f796b4686b4cf1ec8c6bfb
     entity_id: remote.sony_bravia_tv
     domain: remote
   - type: turn_off
     device_id: c2c8159e2379eb27e09f7833b2c8dc23
     entity_id: switch.light_switch
     domain: switch
   - condition: and
     conditions:
     - condition: state
       entity_id: media_player.emby_eoghan_s_fire_tv_cube
       state: idle
     - condition: or
       conditions:
       - condition: state
         entity_id: media_player.emby_eoghan_s_fire_tv_cube
         state: 'off'
   - scene: scene.lights_out

As you can see the “scene: scene.lights_out” part never runs even though emby is in ether a state of “idle” or “off”.

Hopefully someone smarter than me can see where I have went wrong

2

The way you have set up your conditions they are just and… neither the and nor the or are actually doing anything.

The or needs to encapsulate both your conditions as follows:

condition: or
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.emby_eoghan_s_fire_tv_cube
    state: 'idle'
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.emby_eoghan_s_fire_tv_cube
    state: 'off'

Since it’s a single entity, you can also just declare two acceptable states:

Automation with Single State Condition 
id: '1645763271031'
alias: Turn Everything Off
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: device
    domain: mqtt
    device_id: 071aad0d25a0b1dd8bf30d1ce36cec48
    type: action
    subtype: single
    discovery_id: 0x00124b00239f20fe action_single
  - platform: device
    domain: mqtt
    device_id: 7237e2b8244dfc0ed7f111477ec0e073
    type: action
    subtype: double_right
    discovery_id: 0x54ef4410002a30bc action_double_right
condition: []
action:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: b005053c47f796b4686b4cf1ec8c6bfb
    entity_id: remote.sony_bravia_tv
    domain: remote
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: c2c8159e2379eb27e09f7833b2c8dc23
    entity_id: switch.light_switch
    domain: switch
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.emby_eoghan_s_fire_tv_cube
    state: 
      - off
      - idle
  - scene: scene.lights_out
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3

Hi

I just tried that solution and the automation still stops before the scene is triggered

4

Take a look at Troubleshooting Automations and post your automation trace.

5

Hi

I hope this is the output that you are looking for

https://files.eoghan-net.com/share/kjytZr6C

6

Yep. So if you look at the info about your condition:

action/2/conditions/0/entity_id/0": [
        {
          "path": "action/2/conditions/0/entity_id/0",
          "timestamp": "2022-02-26T17:59:58.953582+00:00",
          "result": {
            "result": false,
            "state": "unavailable",
            "wanted_state": "idle"
          }
        }
      ]

You can see that the state of the media player at the time was “unavailable” not “idle” or “off”. This is common with some media_players when they power down or go into a sleep mode. The solution is to add “unavailable” to your list of acceptable states:

id: '1645763271031'
alias: Turn Everything Off
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: device
    domain: mqtt
    device_id: 071aad0d25a0b1dd8bf30d1ce36cec48
    type: action
    subtype: single
    discovery_id: 0x00124b00239f20fe action_single
  - platform: device
    domain: mqtt
    device_id: 7237e2b8244dfc0ed7f111477ec0e073
    type: action
    subtype: double_right
    discovery_id: 0x54ef4410002a30bc action_double_right
condition: []
action:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: b005053c47f796b4686b4cf1ec8c6bfb
    entity_id: remote.sony_bravia_tv
    domain: remote
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: c2c8159e2379eb27e09f7833b2c8dc23
    entity_id: switch.light_switch
    domain: switch
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.emby_eoghan_s_fire_tv_cube
    state: 
      - off
      - idle
      - unavailable
  - scene: scene.lights_out
mode: single
7

Absolute gent the states array worked perfectly thank you so much i was pulling my hair out for days trying to find a solution but clearly didn’t read up fully on the yaml side of things.

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