I’m having trouble getting a stable control of my IKEA Tradfri lights in HA. It’s been pretty much hit or miss for my automations to turn on the lights (automations are from 0.55). Sometimes they turn on and some times don’t. They on the other hand always turn off.
I have tried with light.turn_on and homeassistant.turn_on with same hit or miss results, no errors in the log.
The gateway was reset when Tradfri forced the firmware update, but since then nothing changed on the gateway, removed the key from configuration and typed it in the frontend.
Does anyone have some ideas? Do I need to reset the gateway again (some work 8+ bulbs) or do I have other options?
Thanks for your reply, much appreciated! The automation (see below) is not hitting max brightness, never has as it is too bright at 255 or 254 even. So this should not be the issue right?
I’m thinking of doing a complete reset of the gateway tomorrow, do you know if i could run into any issues with the new way of configuring the security key in hass.io? And calling the groups and bulbs the same names again?
Thanks again for your reply!
This turns the light on or up.
- alias: Hallway - Turn up if movement
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.hallway_motion
to: 'on'
- platform: state
entity_id: group.family
to: 'home'
condition:
condition: and
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: group.family
state: 'home'
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.override_hallway
state: 'off'
action:
- service: homeassistant.turn_on
#THIS IS TRADFRI GATEWAY GROUP WITH TWO PANELS
entity_id: light.hallway
data:
transition: 1
data_template:
brightness: >
{%- if ('sun.sun', 'above_horizon') and now().hour >= 09 and now().hour < 11 %}
50
{%- elif ('sun.sun', 'above_horizon') and now().hour >= 11 and now().hour < 13 %}
130
{%- elif ('sun.sun', 'above_horizon') and now().hour >= 13 and now().hour < 16 %}
200
{%- elif ('sun.sun', 'above_horizon') and now().hour >= 16 and now().hour < 18 %}
130
{%- elif ('sun.sun', 'above_horizon') and now().hour >= 18 and now().hour < 20 %}
50
{%- else %}
1
{% endif %}
This turns the light down again. Turn off is third different automation.
- alias: Hallway - Turn down if no movement
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.hallway_motion
to: 'off'
for:
seconds: 15
condition:
condition: and
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: group.family
state: 'home'
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.override_hallway
state: 'off'
action:
- service: homeassistant.turn_on
#THIS IS TRADFRI GATEWAY GROUP WITH TWO PANELS
entity_id: light.hallway
data:
brightness: 1
transition: 7
I see but it has been working fine, and works fine when the light is already on. I will try and removing data: from the automation later today and report back.
Although i have another automation for another Tradfri group of bulbs that look like this, and this is not working (the hallway one is more hit or miss). I tried using both homeassistant.turn_on and light.turn_on, again xxx.turn_off works fine everytime.
- alias: Livingroom - Turn on Tripod when TV turns on
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.livingroom_tv
to: 'on'
condition:
- condition: template
value_template: '{{ states.sun.sun.attributes.elevation < 0 }}'
action:
- service: homeassistant.turn_on
#THIS IS TRADFRI GATEWAY GROUP WITH THREE BULBS
entity_id: light.livingroom_tripod
data:
brightness: 180
transition: 900
Just an update on my problem. It seems that it has something to do with me trying to turn on tradfri gateway groups, when i turn on individual lights/bulbs it works fine, all the time. So i guess i have to live with the delay turning on the three bulbs i have in one fixture unless i can group them as a light which i haven’t tried yet…
It has nothing to do with me mixing data: and data_template: in the same automation.
TL;DR
This works sometimes:
action:
- service: light.turn_on
#THIS IS TRADFRI GATEWAY GROUP WITH TWO PANELS
entity_id: light.hallway
data:
brightness: 250
transition: 7
