HA to Google Nest Fan Control from Air Quality Monitors

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I know this may be another post about this… I tried searching and I couldn’t find something that matched up.

I’m new to HA and understanding the yaml setup and where to put what and how and what-not is all new me… and I’ve tried to read some of the white papers, but it’s just not lining up to me.

I have a number of Air Quality sensors from Govee that I just setup. I just setup the Gen3 Nest to HA today (what a pain, was really hoping for offline only).

what I wanted to do and what I read I could do it turn the Nest Fan on and off based on triggers,

I’m having a few issues with understanding this.

when I look at examples of Nest Fan Control I’m finding this

Post: Nest Fan Control - #4 by brg468

Example:
‘’’
sequence:

  • entity_id: climate.thermostat
    service: climate.set_fan_mode
    data:
    fan_mode: ‘on’
  • delay:
    minutes: 30
  • entity_id: climate.thermostat
    service: climate.set_fan_mode
    data:
    fan_mode: ‘off’
    ‘’’

and also this

Post: Nest Fan and Temperature Control Stopped Working

Example:

  - service: climate.set_fan_mode
    data:
      fan_mode: "on"
    target:
      entity_id:
        - climate.firstfloor

when I try to setup the automation using the GUI, I don’t have a fan mode, I can just change to the Heat/Cold/Eco modes.

when I look at the yaml method that’s created it looks nothing like the examples I see online…

I see device ID’s where all examples don’t, then Entity_id’s are text based where mine isn’t
‘’’
device_id: ***********************************312c1
domain: climate
entity_id: ****************************************317
type: set_hvac_mode
metadata:
secondary: false
hvac_mode: “off”
continue_on_error: true
‘’’

I can program in a number of industrial languages and when I learn a new one I use what I know to establish a relationship between what I know and what I’m learning… that’s not working here and what I see online and what I’m seeing locally is also too different. I can’t base that relationship.

Is there somewhere I can’t go to to help figure this out? the White papers and RTFM is not working out for me.

thanks in advance

Vin

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ok, seems the syntax order from the posts I was finding and the current version of HA has changed.

my action looks like this and is woking

sequence:
  - data:
      fan_mode: "on"
    target:
      entity_id:
        - climate.hallway
    action: climate.set_fan_mode
  - delay: "00:60:00"
  - data:
      fan_mode: "off"
    target:
      entity_id:
        - climate.hallway
    action: climate.set_fan_mode

This is working.