Help making automation

Configuration
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I am a brand new HA user, and Im having trouble understanding how to setup an automation.

I have configured a zwave network, as well as a Philips Hue bridge. Both are disovered as expected in HA. Now I want to configure a zwave switch to control a Hue light.

I have tried with the following automation, but if I have this in my configuration.yaml file, HA never starts.

As far as I can see, the yaml follows the same structure as the examples on the pages. The entity_id’s listed below are both copied from the HA interface.

automation:
    - alias: "Control Hue"
    trigger:
        platform: state
        entity_id: switch.logic_soft_zhc5010_wall_switch_switch_5_0_5
        state: on
    action:
        service: light.turn_on
        entity_id: light.stjerne

What am I doing wrong?

Any help getting my simple automation working is much appriciated

1 Like
2

Try changing this to

state: 'on'

3

I think you need …

to: ‘on’

not state: ‘on’

4

Both work.