How to properly set up email notification for Wyze sensors?

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Hello all!
I’m new to Home Assistant and I’ve been looking through various documentation and threads but cannot figure out a way to properly send an email notification based on a Wyze door sensor. So far with everything I’ve tried, I get nothing, and when I try to set it up via the automation.yaml file, I always get errors, despite copying and pasting code that worked else where. Any help would be appreciated!

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The first thing to do is to set up your email notifier and get that working.

Then, check in Developer tools -> States what the door sensor reports for open and closed (binary_sensor entities will be on and off).

Then you’ll end up with an automation something like this

alias: "Email when the door opens"
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.YOUR_DOOR_SENSOR
    to: 'on'
action:
  - service: notify.notify
    data:
      message: "Open sesame!"
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Yeah this works just as I need it to! Thank you!

Now that I’ve gone about playing with it, have I configured this properly? I’m trying to make it so it’ll notify me about any activity either A.) between 6:25 pm and 8:00 am or B.) is a weekend.

alias: WyzeDoor1Notification
  description: This automation will send an email notification when the Wyze Door
    1 Sensor is triggered anywhere between the times 6:25 pm and 8:00 am.
  trigger:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.wyzesense_778cd426
    from: 'off'
    platform: state
    to: 'on'
  condition:
  - after: '18:25'
    before: '8:00'
    weekday:
      - sat
      - sun
    condition: time
  action:
  - data:
      message: Door Sensor 1 was triggered
    service: notify.myemail
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If you want or you have to specify that. Currently your time condition only applies at the weekend:

  condition:
  - condition: or
    conditions:
    - condition: time
      after: '18:25'
      before: '8:00'
    - condition: time
      weekday:
      - sat
      - sun

or use the workday sensor:

  condition:
  - condition: or
    conditions:
    - condition: time
      after: '18:25'
      before: '8:00'
    - condition: state
      entity_id: binary_sensor.workday
      state: 'off'
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That does make sense, I’ll keep that in mind in the future. Thank you!:smiley: