I’m new in home assistance and look for help with some simple automation.
As the weather is becoming worse in the Netherlands we need to dry our clothes in house. To get things dry in reasonable time my plan is to use a blower what I switch on and off with a fibaro plug. This plug I switch with fibaro homecenter 2 and on and off manual is working ok.
Now the issue.
I like to use a timer to switch on with a helper “input_boolean.wasrekje_droger”. When I switch on it will switch the output “switch.garage_wasrekje_171” for a specified timer. I tried to do by
platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.wasrekje_droger
from: ‘’‘off’’’
to: ‘’‘on’’’
condition: []
action:
service: timer.start
data: {}
entity_id: timer.wasrek_ventilators
mode: single
Then I have 2 problems:
• The times will not start when I switch on the helper.
• And to change the timer I need to update the config file.
My wish is to have a timer I can adjust in the frontpanel (e.g. between 0,5 and 3 hours)and when I then switch on the helper input_boolean.wasrekje_droger it will run until timer end or until I switch of the helper.
I like to ask if someone can help me with this automation
I’m pretty sure those extra quotes are put in by the UI automation editor.
I’ve noticed the extras in some on my automations and removed them.
Not sure why some and not others.
I’ve seen it escape single quotes by using an extra single quote:
from: ''off''
but I’ve haven’t seen any examples of it escaping two single quotes with another single quote like the OP posted. But then again, I never use the UI editor so I could be completely wrong. I’m just going by examples I’ve seen posted here.
So there may be something confusing the system by having a double-escaped single quote.