Help with template - Not playing for X minutes

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Hi all,

I was hoping for some help with an automation.
I have the following condition working fine. But I want the minutes to work from an input_number.

What I have so far:

- alias: '[Occupancy] Lounge cleared by motion'
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.lounge_pir
    to: 'off'
    for:
      minutes: "{{ states('input_number.occupancy_timeout') | int(20) }}"

  condition:
    condition: not
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: media_player.lounge_kodi
        state: 'playing'
        for:
          minutes: 20
      - condition: state
        entity_id: media_player.lounge_echo
        state: 'playing'
        for:
          minutes: 20

  action:
    - service: input_boolean.turn_off
      data:
        entity_id: input_boolean.lounge_occupancy_switch

I am assuming I need a template condition but I am a bit stuck.

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction :slight_smile:

2

I doubt you can template that. So you’ll need something like a timer to trigger a second automation that would test if the two devices are still playing or not. The first automation then would set the timer and the timer duration can be templated.

3

Only for triggers support templates. Conditions do not. Please post your full automation, maybe there’s other ways to get what you want without templating. Worse case is that a template is built, it wouldn’t be too bad and you don’t need a timer.

4

Thanks. I have edited OP to include full automation.

I have ‘occupancy switches’ and need to turn this one off when:

  • no motion for x minutes
  • tv not been playing for x minutes
  • music not been playing for x minutes
5

It’s a bit painful but you can expand it if you have more media_players in the future. Just add them to the list with states.<entity_id>, .

The general idea here is:

  • Get the timeout duration.
  • Get the current time minus the timeout duration, convert to seconds.
  • Look through all the media players, if they aren’t playing, make sure they haven’t changed over the timeout duration.
  • If none have changed in the timeout duration, the condition passes.
condition: template
value_template: >
  {%- set players = [
    states.media_player.lounge_kodi,
    states.media_player.lounge_echo,
    ] %}
  {%- set timeout = states('input_number.media_timeout') | int(20) %}
  {%- set t = now().timestamp() - timeout * 60 %}
  {%- set ns = namespace(not_playing=[]) %}
  {%- for player in players %}
    {%- if player.state != 'playing' and as_timestamp(player.last_changed) < t %}
      {% set ns.not_playing = ns.not_playing + [ player.entity_id ] %}
    {%- endif %}
  {%- endfor %}
  {{ ns.not_playing | length == players | length }}

You should test it in the template editor because I have not tested it.

6

THANK YOU!!!
It would appear you are a wizard lol.

I had to change
{{ ns.not_playing | length == players.length }}
to
{{ ns.not_playing | length == players | length }}

It’s a nice elegant solution and easy to follow so thank you very much!

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