If scene is activated, then turn off a switch

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I am struggling to get this simple task to work: Turn off a switch if a scene is activated.

What I did so far:
I made a switch for the Circadian Lighting component, which is working:

switch.circadian_lighting_bathroom_circadian_lighting

I have a scene which changes the color of my bathroom lights

scene.bathroom_relax

If the Arcadian Light switch is on, I cannot change the color using my scene – obviously. Now I created an automation, which checks if my scene is turned on and turns the switch off. But it is not working and I don’t know what I am doing wrong. Please help me.

Here is my code. I found this trigger part on this forum.

alias: "Activate Scene - Bathroom Relax"
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: call_service
    event_data:
      service_data:
        entity_id: [scene.bathroom_relax]
      domain: scene
      service: turn_on
action:
  - service: switch.turn_off
    entity_id: switch.circadian_lighting_bathroom_circadian_lighting

EDIT:
I guess I need to re-activate the scene after the switch is turned off, because the active Arcadian Lighting won’t allow a change in color.

  1. Scene “bathroom relax” is activated
  2. Arcadian Lighting switch turns off
  3. Scene “bathroom relax” activates
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Why don’t you program the switches in your scenes instead of automations? For example click the link below.

I think it is even possible to activate another scene within a scene but I will have to test this first to be sure.

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I forgot to mention, that I am using the deCONZ-component for my lights. I created scenes using the Phoscon-Web-UI. So the scene.bathroom_relax shows up in HA, but I don’t have a config file for it.

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Ah ok, that complicates things. Well the thing with scenes is (at least in my case) that the state is always set to “scening”. This means that you can’t set a trigger to it as the state never changes. I don’t know if this is true for your particular scene, but with HA scenes (the standard ones) this is not possible as far as I know. I could be terribly wrong though.

What you could do is the following. Create 2 groups (1 group with all the devices in your scene that should be ‘on’ and 1 group for all devices that should be ‘off’) you can then set conditions in your automations that when both those groups meet the requirement that it will trigger an automation. I have been experimenting with this so I could have Homekit like scening and it works pretty well.
You will need to create input booleans as well if you want the states to be shown.

Examples here:
Automations: https://github.com/jimz011/homeassistant/blob/c2e0770994b6541e882deaf6d914cbed20f922dc/configuration/automations.yaml#L2432

Groups: https://github.com/jimz011/homeassistant/blob/c2e0770994b6541e882deaf6d914cbed20f922dc/configuration/groups.yaml#L91

Input_booleans: https://github.com/jimz011/homeassistant/blob/c2e0770994b6541e882deaf6d914cbed20f922dc/configuration/input_boolean.yaml#L15

Video of how my scenes look like, also any automation can be programmed to these buttons.

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Yeah, my scenes are always in state “scening”.

I just had a quick look at your examples, but I think I need more time to figure out how I can do this.
Maybe on the weekend…

Thanks for your help so far.

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hey there,

any news on here? have you been able to fix it / find a work around?

i got the same problem… i am running two busch jäger battery powered wall switches (2 channel) and i want to trigger lights with them… setup is:

busch jäger -> conbee 2 -> deconz -> home assistant (hass.io on rpi3b)

thanks in advance,
andreas

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I got a working setup now.

My physical setup:

Busch Jäger battery powered wall switch -> Conbee 2 -> DeConz (Phoscon) -> Home Assistant

The switches are always in the “scening mode”. So i was not able to toggle a light or somethin else.

My solution:

Home Assistant listens for events. Whe the switch is triggered HASS triggers an automation (which that toggles the light.

Way to get to the event:

Developer tools -> Event listener -> listen for “deconz_event” -> find out the device id and the event number… something like this:

  event: 1002
  id: wandsender_eg

Then i created an automation with the following trigger:

event_data:
  event: 1002
  id: wandsender_eg
event_type: deconz_event
platform: event

… which toggles the light…

Maybe it helps somebody :slight_smile:

Best regards,
Andreas

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this might be of use:

- id: '1582139333432'
  alias: scene sync
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: call_service
    event_data:
      domain: scene
      service: turn_on
  action:
  - data_template:
      message: 'SceneSync: {{ trigger.event.data.service_data.entity_id }}'
    service: persistent_notification.create
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