Light automation error

Configuration
1

Greetings,

My light automation was working fine till my Pi crashed and I had to rebuild it. Now I am using Hassbian with homeassistant 0.84.3 and I can’t get my light automation configured. I get the following error:

Error loading /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml: sequence entries are not allowed here
in “/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/automations.yaml”, line 1, column 3

This is how my automation.yaml looks like:

[]- alias: Buitenverlichting aan na zonsondergang
  trigger:
    platform: sun
    event: sunset
    offset: "+00:15:00"
  action:
    service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: group.buiten
      
- alias: Buitenverlichting uit
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '23:30:00'
  action:
    service: light.turn_off
    entity_id: group.buiten
    
 - alias: Buitenverlichting ochtend aan
   trigger:
     platform: time
     at: '06:00:00'
   action:
     service: light.turn_on
     entity_id: group.buiten

 - alias: Buitenverlichting ochtend uit
   trigger:
     platform: time
     at: '08:00:00'
   action:
     service: light.turn_off
     entity_id: group.buiten

What i am doing wrong in this automation?

Many thanks,

Marco Kroes

2

Could it be that your service is ‘light.turn_off’ but the entity id is a group and not a light?
try switching your service to ‘home assistant.turn_off’

3

Althought I knew it would work, I tried it anyway.
I changed all the light.turn_on and light.turn_off to homeassistant.turn_on and homeassistant.turn_off.
This didn’t make any difference, there error is still somewhere in “/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/automations.yaml”, line 1, column 3.

4

Can you highlight your code in the initial post and use the code blocks </> as per the instructions at the top of the page.
It makes it MUCH easier to spot any issues with formatting :slight_smile:

5

Change my original post showing the code the right way now.

6

Line1 column3 points directly to the square brackets, they shouldn’t be there

The automation starting

- alias: Buitenverlichting ochtend aan

is indented one space too many.
Incorrect formtting will kill your config and prevent it from running.

In your automations.yaml the -alias: should be at the very left hand side of the page. No spaces.
All the -alias: should line up under each other going down the page. Yours do not.

Try this one :slight_smile:

- alias: Buitenverlichting aan na zonsondergang
  trigger:
    platform: sun
    event: sunset
    offset: "+00:15:00"
  action:
    service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: group.buiten
      
- alias: Buitenverlichting uit
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '23:30:00'
  action:
    service: light.turn_off
    entity_id: group.buiten
    
- alias: Buitenverlichting ochtend aan
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '06:00:00'
  action:
    service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: group.buiten

- alias: Buitenverlichting ochtend uit
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '08:00:00'
  action:
    service: light.turn_off
    entity_id: group.buiten
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7

I used your changed code and now the error is gone. I will see the result when the sun sets.
I didn’t even saw there was one space too many i it.
Thanks a lot.