How can I turn off my Litter Robot 4 in a script?

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Hi all, first post. Hope this is formatted well.

I consider myself an amateur with Home Assistant but am eager and willing to learn.

My goal: Create a script that turns on my Litter Robot 4, runs a cycle, and then turns off.

This may sound silly to anyone familiar with the hardware, but my cat is still adjusting to the device and I do not leave it on all the time. So we kind of use it in a “Semi-auto” mode for the moment while she adapts to it.

I have gotten as far as being able to turn it on, run a cycle, and then even have it press the reset button. But I cannot figure out how to turn it off again.

I saw from some previous posts that vacuum.turn_off is no longer supported and is now vacuum.stop, which is what I believe I want to be able to do in a script but I cannot seem to figure out how.

Using the visual editor, this is the script I’ve come up with so far:

sequence:
  - device_id: a752e59b473507144a571aacb49165db
    domain: vacuum
    entity_id: 350df2bd33fc65654cb3a913d0b861b9
    type: clean
    metadata:
      secondary: false
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 15
      milliseconds: 0
  - device_id: a752e59b473507144a571aacb49165db
    domain: button
    entity_id: bbc9bc69e882bf390a819d3094b549ec
    type: press
  - device_id: a752e59b473507144a571aacb49165db
    domain: vacuum
    entity_id: 350df2bd33fc65654cb3a913d0b861b9
    type: clean
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - device_id: a752e59b473507144a571aacb49165db
        domain: vacuum
        entity_id: 350df2bd33fc65654cb3a913d0b861b9
        type: docked
        trigger: device
  - device_id: a752e59b473507144a571aacb49165db
    domain: button
    entity_id: bbc9bc69e882bf390a819d3094b549ec
    type: press
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 10
      milliseconds: 0
  - device_id: a752e59b473507144a571aacb49165db
    domain: vacuum
    entity_id: 350df2bd33fc65654cb3a913d0b861b9
    type: dock
alias: LR4 Cycle then Power Off
description: ""

However, when I run the script, I get: Error: Entity vacuum.missy_s_magic_box_litter_box does not support action vacuum.return_to_base

Well, the visual editor doesn’t have a “stop” option, so I edited the YAML to change type: dock to type: stop, but that gives me a different error and won’t let me save. Message malformed: value must be one of ['clean', 'dock'] for dictionary value @ data['type']

The thing is, I am pretty sure that sending a stop signal is what I want to do. If I navigate to the devices page, then to the Litter Robot, and click on its Controls panel, I have a “Start” and “Stop” button. And pressing the Stop button will in fact turn off the Litter Robot while it is idle.

How can I send that Stop signal in this script, or otherwise achieve my goal?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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You’re on the right track. The missing piece is that the device actions for the vacuum domain only expose clean and dock, but the Litter-Robot doesn’t support “return to base/dock.” The “Stop” you see on the device page is the vacuum.stop service, which you can call directly in a script (not via a “device” action).

Try this script. It uses service calls instead of device actions, waits for the cleaning to finish, resets the unit, then powers the unit off with vacuum.stop.

alias: LR4 – Cycle then Power Off
mode: single
sequence:
  # 1) Start a cleaning cycle
  - service: vacuum.start
    target:
      entity_id: vacuum.missy_s_magic_box_litter_box
    # If your setup doesn’t support vacuum.start, swap to:
    # service: vacuum.turn_on

  # 2) Wait until it's no longer cleaning (max 15 minutes as a safety)
  - wait_template: "{{ not is_state('vacuum.missy_s_magic_box_litter_box', 'cleaning') }}"
    timeout: "00:15:00"
    continue_on_timeout: true

  # 3) Optional: press the Reset button (adjust entity_id to your reset button)
  - service: button.press
    target:
      entity_id: button.missy_s_magic_box_reset_gauge

  # 4) Small settle delay
  - delay: "00:00:10"

  # 5) Power the LR4 off (this is the "Stop" you see in the UI)
  - service: vacuum.stop
    target:
      entity_id: vacuum.missy_s_magic_box_litter_box