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Hello. Help. write automation. We have 2 buttons to open the gate with different ids (car1), (Car2) and two person s. it is necessary to determine who arrived or left and on what. Considering that the status home or not_home is determined after a few minutes. ChatGPT and I have already broken our heads

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To start with, forget about ChatGPT. :grin:

Could you show us what you’ve got so far? Please paste it into your post as preformatted text (</> in the cogwheel menu) - difficult to read otherwise.

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description: ""
trigger:
  - type: turned_on
    platform: device
    device_id: b3a91a4df41bce4fc58dd83a13a66d74
    entity_id: befddc5898490592fed0f26c8b4799a9
    domain: binary_sensor
    id: Suzuki
  - type: turned_on
    platform: device
    device_id: b3a91a4df41bce4fc58dd83a13a66d74
    entity_id: d2bfa41074ec12923425fc2c24a137e1
    domain: binary_sensor
    id: Volga
condition: []
action:
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: person.timurlan75
        from: not_home
        to: home
        id: Timur_home
      - platform: state
        entity_id: person.timurlan75
        from: home
        to: not_home
        id: Timur-not_home
      - platform: state
        entity_id: person.chingiz
        from: not_home
        to: home
        id: Chingiz_home
      - platform: state
        entity_id: person.chingiz
        from: home
        to: not_home
        id: Chingiz-not_home
    timeout:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 5
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
    continue_on_timeout: true
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Suzuki
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.timurlan75
            state: home
          - condition: trigger
            id: ""
        sequence:
          - service: notify.family_telegram
            data:
              message: Тимур arrived on Suzuki
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Suzuki
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.timurlan75
            state: not_home
        sequence:
          - service: notify.family_telegram
            data:
              message: Тимур left on Suzuki
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Volga
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.timurlan75
            state: home
        sequence:
          - service: notify.family_telegram
            data:
              message: Тимур приехал на Volga
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Volga
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.timurlan75
            state: not_home
        sequence:
          - service: notify.family_telegram
            data:
              message: Тимур уехал на Volga
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Suzuki
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.chingiz
            state: home
        sequence:
          - service: notify.family_telegram
            data:
              message: Чингиз приехал на Suzuki
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Suzuki
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.chingiz
            state: not_home
        sequence:
          - service: notify.family_telegram
            data:
              message: Чингиз left on Suzuki
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Volga
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.chingiz
            state: home
        sequence:
          - service: notify.family_telegram
            data:
              message: Чингиз  arrived on the Volga
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Volga
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.chingiz
            state: not_home
        sequence:
          - service: notify.family_telegram
            data:
              message: Чингиз left on Volga
mode: single
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Wow! :grin:

Well, the first question is… what are the devices triggering the automation? You describe them as buttons, but the automation describes them as binary sensors. If they are buttons, they won’t have an on/off state. What are their entity ids?

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id “suzuki” and “volga” are RF remote control buttons for gates. it’s just esphome that’s how they’re written.

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OK. So they are binary sensors then. :thinking:

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What’s going on here?

  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Suzuki
          - condition: state
            entity_id: person.timurlan75
            state: home
          - condition: trigger
            id: ""

There seems to be an extra condition that will never be met.

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These are the consequences of experiments. it doesn’t matter . I need a way to connect these events.

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- conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Suzuki
          - condition: trigger
            id: Timur_home
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will that work?

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I don’t know. Press the button! :grin:

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Since you’ve been using ChatGPT, I assume you’re writing this in yaml.

The best advice at this point is to start again using the UI editor, and use the state of the button entity_ids as the trigger, not device_ids. You should end up with something like:

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.car1
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
    id: suzuki
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.car2
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
    id: volga

Using the UI you will be warned about errors when you try to save. You can then start running the automation and looking at traces (again in the UI) to make sure the logic is doing what you want it to.

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So far I have come up with the idea of creating an “auxiliary switch” that will switch the remote control buttons and it will be in the Volga Suzuki position. and trigger events at home, not at home. the disadvantage is that if the person “leaves on foot”, he will still write “left”