Light on after sensor trigger after sunset - Issue

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1

Hello,

I’m having issue making an automation works.
I’d like to have an hallway light turn on after the motion sensor is triggered, but only if the sun has set.

Here’s what I have so far :

#AUTOMATION HALLWAY LIGHT MULTISENSOR TRIGGERED AFTER SUNSET
  alias: Turn on hallway after sunset sensor
  hide_entity: True
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: sensor.aeotec_zw100_multisensor_6_burglar_12_10
    from: '0'
    to: '8'
  condition:
    platform: sun
    before: sunrise
  action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_on
    entity_id: script.sensor_hallway_light

Home Assistant doesn’t get the automation althrough it passes YAML testers. I don’t really know what’s wrong with it but it seems to be the condition :

16-12-06 11:27:40 homeassistant.util.yaml: mapping values are not allowed here
  in "/home/hass/.homeassistant/extraconfig/automation/sensor_hallway.yaml", line 10, column 10

Any advices ?
Thanks !

2

Change that to

condition: sun
before: sunrise

or it may be

condition: 
  condition: sun
  before: sunrise

conditions are weird sometimes and require the two condition statements.

3

The second one seems to have done the trick ! (At least, no errors in the log and HA starts).

Thanks a lot silvrr ! :slight_smile:

4

I did like that:

- alias: 'turn light on'
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.sensor_corridor
      from: 'still'
      to: 'motion'
  condition: 
    - condition: state
      entity_id: sun.sun
      state: 'below_horizon'
  action:
    - service: light.turn_on
      entity_id: light.hue_white_lamp_1
 
- alias: 'turn light off'
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.sensor_corridor
      from: 'motion'
      to: 'still'
  condition: 
    - condition: state
      entity_id: light.hue_white_lamp_1
      state: 'on'
  action:
    - service: light.turn_off
      entity_id: light.hue_white_lamp_1`Preformatted text`
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