Leaving Home, SHOULD trigger all the lights to go out

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Hi,
Currently I’m trying out to get a working automation, where if I leave the home. The lights should go out.

Right now in the logs, it notices me leaving the home, but then again. It’s not triggering the automation. Am I doing something wrong?
Right now I’m working from the UI and not really in the “code” side of things. I don’t know if people could help me or point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

See image below how I set it up right now.

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The trigger looks OK. What action follows it?

Edit: If you’re editing in the UI you can still post code in the forum - it’s easier for us to follow.

Go to the three dots top right and select Edit in YAML:

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You can then copy and paste the code;

description: ""
mode: single
triggers:
  - trigger: numeric_state
    entity_id:
      - zone.home
    below: 1
conditions: []
actions: []

When you paste into your post, use the preformatted text option (in the cogwheel menu top right of the post). That will keep the YAML layout.

3

@kazure What is “Thuis”? A zone? If so, you need to look at its state not one of its attributes. The persons attribute of a zone is a list of persons, not a number — delete the “Persons” from the Attribute field and leave that blank.

5

I’d say the trigger is not correct.
Post the correctly formatted yaml instead of images.

6

Oops, sorry. Missed that… :flushed:

7

Hi, I don’t have the older format anymore. But as @Troon said, it was the issue that I used an attribute, and should’ve left that field blank.

For good measure, see the current YAML

alias: lights_home-empty
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: numeric_state
    entity_id:
      - zone.home
    below: 1
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: light.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      label_id: aanwezigheid_verlichting
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 5
      milliseconds: 0
  - action: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data:
      brightness_pct: 40
      kelvin: 2000
    target:
      label_id: thuis_verlichting
mode: single
8

That automation turns your light on 5s after you leave the house. Are you sure that’s what you want?

9

Yeah…
It’s gonna shut down the lighting and start up the absence lighting.

Still need to do a lot of optimalizations, but it get’s the job done.

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