I want to activate a pre-configured automation from the Philips Hue app (such as presence simulation) when I switch my smart switch to vacation mode. I have found an entity_id: automation.anwesenheit_simulieren for the automation, but I don’t know how to select the lights so that this specific automation starts.
I am aware of how to activate scenes, but I can’t seem to trigger this pre-set automation. Does anyone know how to do this?
alias: Ferienmodus_Einschalten
description: >-
Startet die Philips Hue Automatisierung 'Anwesenheit simulieren' und schaltet
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triggers:
- entity_id: input_boolean.vacation_mode
from: "off"
to: "on"
trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
- target:
entity_id: automation.anwesenheit_simulieren
data:
skip_condition: true
action: automation.trigger
mode: single
I’ve never seen an automation generated by the integration either.
@summpaul, how did you create this automation? Is this something perhaps that was created using Hue Labs in the Hue app (which is no longer available, although I believe Hue allowed programs adopted from Hue Labs to keep functioning for people after removing Hue Labs). If so, I am not aware of a way to trigger that from within HA, and I seriously doubt that there is a supported way to do it.
It just confuses me that in Home Assistant, I have an entity_id for Philips Hue called “automation.anwesenheit_simulieren”, and this wasn’t created by me but rather appeared through the integration of Hue with HA. That’s why I thought it should be possible to control this default automation directly via Home Assistant as well.
Sigh. Please stop posting AI hallucinated garbage in the forums. Should almost be a bannable offense as it just wastes everyone’s time.
The Hue integration does not create automations. What it will do is create a switch entity for each Hue automation it finds on the Hue Bridge. To start that automation you obviously cannot use automation.trigger, as to Home Assistant this is not an automation. You flip the switch with switch.turn_on.