I’m using a HM-LC-Sw1-Ba-PCB on my garage door, to trigger open/close the garage.
What I need here is a short keypress to start the motor (external switch input like a button) and lift the garage door. If i turn on the switch in the UI, it stays the whole time in status “ON” and i have to turn it off and on again to trigger the motor the second time.
Is it possible to trigger a switch with an on-for timer (got that one in FHEM) to simulate a 1 second keypress of the switch button?
The cleaner solution would be to check if your switch can be configured to work like this on its own. Have a look at the settings with the configuration utility where it looks something like this:
I assume “Verweildauer im Zustand “ein”” would be what you need.
If that doesn’t solve your problem you can use an automation to do this. I have something similar for an MQTT relay switch which looks like this:
- alias: "Türbuzzer aus nach 5 Sekunden"
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: switch.eingangstuer
to: 'on'
for:
seconds: 5
action:
service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.eingangstuer
The HM-LC-Sw1-BA-PCB does not support that kind of configuration:
So I’m going to use an automation to handle that.
Thx!
I guess I need further help, because I’m not sure where to add your example lines. What I’ve added to my automation.yaml is the following code:
- alias: “Garagentor betaetigen”
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: switch.gragentor_rechts
to: ‘on’
for:
seconds: 1
action:
service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.gragentor_rechts
The entity is shown in HASS but not sure what to do with that. If I add that to one of my views and trigger the “button”, nothings happens.
Log file says:
2017-10-30 15:58:23 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http] Serving /api/states/automation.garagentor_betaetigen to 192.168.21.1 (auth: True)
2017-10-30 15:58:23 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: new_state=<state automation.garagentor_betaetigen=on; friendly_name=Garagentor betaetigen, last_triggered=2017-10-30T14:32:23.691519+00:00 @ 2017-10-30T15:58:23.231743+01:00>, entity_id=automation.garagentor_betaetigen, old_state=<state automation.garagentor_betaetigen=off; friendly_name=Garagentor betaetigen, last_triggered=2017-10-30T14:32:23.691519+00:00 @ 2017-10-30T15:58:10.850149+01:00>>
You don’t have to do anything with that automation-UI-element. When you turn on the switch (the one you want to automatically turn off again), it should flip back to off a second later automatically. If I understood correctly you only want to trigger the switch for a short time, and everytime it is turned on the garage-motor gets activated.
