How to perform multiple actions

Configuration
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I’m sure this is something incredibly simple but i can’t see what i’m looking for anywhere. I have HASS talking to my Logitech Harmony Elite, which in turn is talking to some cheap LED Strip Light which i have learnt all of the commands from.

What i would like to do is turn on the lights “PowerToggle” and then issue a second command “White” to change the colour to white.

automation:

  • alias: “Kodi Media Player Paused”
    trigger:
    • platform: state
      entity_id: media_player.kodi
      #media_content_type: VIDEO
      from: ‘playing’
      #condition:
      #- condition: state
      #entity_id: sun.sun
      #state: ‘below_horizon’
      action:
      service: remote.send_command
      entity_id: remote.Harmony_Hub
      data:
      device: “44749259”
      command: “PowerToggle”

whenever i try to add a second command i get errors like “duplicate service”

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Add dashes “-” to each service and indent them accordingly. So it would look something like this:

action:
  - service: remote.send_command
    entity_id: remote.Harmony_Hub
    data:
      device: "44749259"
      command: "PowerToggle"
  - service: notify.notify
    data:
      message: "Power Toggle"

See here for other examples:

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3

thank you, working perfectly

4

I’m still having problems with this, just testing the commands in a script for now, and the second command never seems to work.

#LED Lighting
script:
  lighting:
    sequence:
      - service: remote.send_command
        entity_id: remote.Harmony_Hub
        data:
          device: "44749259"
          command: "PowerToggle"
      - delay: 00:00:02
      - service: remote.send_command
        entity_id: remote.Harmony_Hub
        data:
          device: "44749259"
          command: "Blue"

The other issue i’m getting in my automation is an error

2017-07-18 05:52:26 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Invalid config for [automation]: required key not provided @ data[‘trigger’][1][‘platform’]. Got None. (See /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml, line 144). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/automation/

automation:
  - alias: "Kodi Media Player Paused"
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: media_player.kodi
        #media_content_type: VIDEO
        from: 'playing'
    #condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: sun.sun
        state: 'below_horizon'
    action:
      - service: remote.send_command
        entity_id: remote.Harmony_Hub
        data:
          device: "44749259"
          command: "PowerToggle"
      - delay: 00:00:00:50
      - service: remote.send_command
        entity_id: remote.Harmony_Hub
        data:
          device: "44749259"
          command: "Blue"
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If you send the “blue” with the device already on, does it work? Be sure you’ve got the correct command - you can look at your harmony_xxx.conf for commands available to each device.

With that second issue - you’re not commenting out the whole block. I wonder if that’s causing a parse error. Use # to comment out the whole condition.

6

The Blue command definitely fires on it’s on. just doens’t seem to like follow the powertoggle command. Changing the delay out to 5seconds had no impact either

7

Are you seeing any homeassistant.log errors? That delay format seems off. I think it only does hours:minutes:seconds – not milliseconds.

8

Thanks again for the assistant. I think it was a combination of the delay format being wrong and the partially commented automation task below.