Hello im a noob any help would be lovely thanks

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hello I’m trying to get an automation working iv tried a good lot of things that I feel maybe are now old or something but here goes

I’m trying to get a set of lights to turn on and off when my front door sensor pings my HA

i tried listing them separately but code runs from top down so i would have light 1 on of then light 2 on off and thats not what i wanted

i tryed geting groups working but after putting

light groups

light:

  • platform: group
    name: alarm lights
    entities:
    • light.00468516807d3a7ac60f
    • light.00711728f4cfa2c9121a
    • light.06708663840d8e6b414a
    • light.40401887dc4f22babe44
    • light.4605020368c63ae7b440
    • light.76518007e098069d7e0f
    • light.bfe4769a9c7e492385c9gf

in confi.yaml it didnt work
so I put all the entities to gether in my automation

  • type: toggle
    entities:
    • light.00468516807d3a7ac60f
    • light.00711728f4cfa2c9121a
    • light.06708663840d8e6b414a
    • light.40401887dc4f22babe44
    • light.4605020368c63ae7b440
    • light.76518007e098069d7e0f
    • light.bfe4769a9c7e492385c9gf
      domain: light
  • type: toggle
    entities:
    • light.00468516807d3a7ac60f
    • light.00711728f4cfa2c9121a
    • light.06708663840d8e6b414a
    • light.40401887dc4f22babe44
    • light.4605020368c63ae7b440
    • light.76518007e098069d7e0f
    • light.bfe4769a9c7e492385c9gf
      domain: light

witch works for just the top entity

any help would be amazing

and sorry for probably posting in the wrong place but ill learn lol

thanks again

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Hello and welcome!

The correct indentation is important. Because of that could you please so kind and use the code formatter here? It‘s this button in the editor:

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At the moment it seems to me that the indentation of your light group is wrong. The correct way is:


# Example configuration.yaml entry
light:
  - platform: group
    name: Alarm Lights
    entities:
      - light. ....
      - light. ....
      - light. ....

This should create a new light group entity named light.alarm_lights .

For example you now could create a script like this on:


script:
  blinklicht:
    alias: 'Blinklicht'
    sequence:
      - service: light.turn_on
        data:
          entity_id: light.alarm_lights
      - delay:
          seconds: 1
      - service: light.turn_off
        data:
          entity_id: light.alarm_lights
      - delay:
          seconds: 1
      - service: light.turn_on
        data:
          entity_id: light.alarm_lights
      - delay:
          seconds: 1
      - service: light.turn_off
        data:
          entity_id: light.alarm_lights

and put this in an automation action. As I said, this is just one example of many.

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thank you for giving some of ur time to help i will work of this and see how i get on with it

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One additional item here, but not concerning your automation (where I agree with pedolsky):
t’s very helpful to those of us who are reading through the titles to see if we might be of assistance if you provide a brief idea of the problem in the title.
In your case, “Help with automating light groups” would be more informative.
By all means keep asking questions. I find this forum full of folks who are very informed and very helpful.

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