Help with an Automation, Motion Sensor and Time Management

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Hi all,

I have a question whether this is possible or not. Currently I do have a lot of automation which is fine, but with this i had a lot of problems.

So here is what I want to accomplish:

Motion Sensor Calls my 3 Lamps…
From 3 - 8 am my lamps should have an Level of 20 %.
The rest of the Day should be fully 100 Prozent of the light level.

Thanks for any Help

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There are definitely more efficient ways of doing this but you could just create 2 automations 1 for each time period and create the conditions in each automation

This will turn my office light on at 20% if motion is detected between 3-8

alias: New Automation
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - type: motion
    platform: device
    device_id: bfa0ff60e28a766ecd15839b0d75236f
    entity_id: binary_sensor.pir_sensor
    domain: binary_sensor
  condition:
  - condition: time
    after: 03:00:00
    before: 08:00:00
    weekday:
    - mon
    - tue
    - wed
    - thu
    - fri
    - sat
    - sun
  action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: e65cd1e6b3ab0a977a3391cead07a27f
    entity_id: light.lk_zbt_cctlight_d0106_559bb1fe_level_light_color_on_off
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: 20
  mode: single

Then you can just duplicate this but change the time frame (8-3) and set the brightness to 100%

You can take this a step further by a helper. For example I use a Time of the Day helper called “evening” which is set at 19:00 - 24:00. I then check the condition of the helper in my automations - evening will be on between 19:00-24:00. this means if I want to adjust the timeframe instead of having to edit all my automations I edit the helper and all automations will be impacted.

Sure some else will be along with a much more elegant solution soon but in the interim I hope this helps

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