UPDATE: When I use Alexa to turn on or off the Wyze bulb, it can take 30 seconds for HA to update its status. When I use Alexa or the Wyze app to change the color of the Wyze bulb, sometimes the new color is not picked up at all by HA. Since there are also status update delays between Alexa and the Wyze app, this isn’t just a problem with the Wyze integration.
I need some help with what may be timing issues in an automation. I’m turning the smart-bulb in a lamp red to indicate a gate has been left open. I want to save it’s state, so that when the gate is closed, the bulb will return to it’s previous color and brightness. The service “scene.create” with the “snapshot_entities” seems like it was made for this. I create the scene and then turn on the bulb specifying red. When the gate gets closed, I call the “scene.apply” service, expecting it will restore the bulb to its original state, but instead it stays red.
When I select the scene the automation in Home Assistant and click “apply”, the light turns red - it appears that my “light.turn_on” sneaks in ahead of the “scene.create”. I am using “mode: single” in the automation, so I know it isn’t due to a re-trigger of the automation overwriting the scene.
A simple solution would be to add a “wait” step with timer, but I’m wondering if there is something better; something that will actually wait for the previous step to complete.
alias: Gate left open monitor
description: ""
trigger:
- type: opened
platform: device
device_id: 5a4a79ff69b6fddb5de5d15bde4af201
entity_id: binary_sensor.gate_open
domain: binary_sensor
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 30
condition: []
action:
- service: notify.alexa_media_everywhere
data:
message: Warning! Warning! Gate left open! Gate left open!
data:
type: announce
target: alexa_media.everywhere
enabled: true
- service: notify.mobile_app_victor_s_s23
data:
message: Gate left open
- service: scene.create
data:
scene_id: save_living_room_lamp_state
snapshot_entities: light.book_case_lamp
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 2
milliseconds: 0
- service: light.turn_on
data:
rgb_color:
- 255
- 0
- 0
target:
device_id:
- d86383b2527bb8332be6b911bbf1def1
- wait_for_trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.gate_open
to: "off"
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 5
- type: not_opened
platform: device
device_id: 5a4a79ff69b6fddb5de5d15bde4af201
entity_id: binary_sensor.gate_open
domain: binary_sensor
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 30
continue_on_timeout: true
- service: notify.mobile_app_victor_s_s23
data:
message: Gate has been closed
- service: scene.turn_on
data: {}
target:
entity_id: scene.save_living_room_lamp_state
- service: notify.alexa_media_everywhere
data:
message: The Gate has been closed.
data:
type: announce
target: alexa_media.everywhere
enabled: true
mode: single