Hello, I have been looking for a long time to switch on the light via a switch or a motion detector and switch off the light again when no movement is detected
for this I created a timer in the configuration.yaml
then I created 2 automations to start the timer 1 time
and the 2 automation to switch off the light after the timer has expired
Maybe someone could use it …
Would be way more useful if you provide code instead of pictures of code…
Please read the community guidelines, especially point 11 on formatting code.
Thanks for sharing.
Unfortunately because you have pasted images of text rather than correctly formatted text it is difficult for others to use your code. Text can be copied and pasted. Images can’t.
Also your conditions can be considerably simplified. I’m not going to type all that out to show you how. If it was text I could.
In fact the conditions are not doing anything as your triggers are already OR logic. Your conditions, A or (B (or C)) is equivalent to A or B or C. Which is what your triggers are already doing.
Also, also, this can be done a lot simpler without a timer and only one automation. See the example in the v0.113 release notes.
EDIT: spent too long looking for that example.
ok here is code…
configuration.yaml
timer:
lichtautomatischaus:
duration: ‘00:05:05’
lichtautomatischausflurunten:
duration: ‘00:05:05’
Automation 1
alias: 1/2 Bad-Licht-Auto-Aus
description: ‘’
trigger:
Automation 2 …
alias: 2/2 Bad-Licht-Auto-Aus
description: ‘’
trigger:
Please have a read of point 11 in the link BurningStone posted above, then edit your post to format the pasted code correctly. Indentation is very important in YAML.
nevertheless thank you! i will need a code like this!
See this then: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2020/07/22/release-113/#automations--scripts-bug-fix
how can i post the code
is it so right
configuration.yaml
# Timer erstellen
timer:
lichtautomatischaus:
duration: '00:05:05'
Automation 1
alias: 1/2 Bad-Licht-Auto-Aus
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_1
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
- platform: state
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_2
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.presence_2
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
condition:
- condition: or
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_1
state: 'on'
- condition: or
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_2
state: 'on'
- condition: or
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.presence_2
state: 'on'
action:
- service: timer.start
data: {}
entity_id: timer.lichtautomatischaus
mode: single
Automation 2
alias: 2/2 Bad-Licht-Auto-Aus
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: timer.finished
event_data:
entity_id: timer.lichtautomatischaus
condition: []
action:
- service: switch.turn_off
data: {}
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_2
- service: switch.turn_off
data: {}
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_1
mode: single
Sure, it can be easier if someone likes to write an idea, but I haven’t found anyone else for me …
That works first … And I wanted to post that because maybe someone is facing the same problem …
Great! You got it.
Now try this and see if it does the same thing:
- alias: 1/2 Bad-Licht-Auto-Aus
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- switch.meq0454469_1
- switch.meq0454469_2
- binary_sensor.presence_2
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
for: '00:05:05'
action:
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id:
- switch.meq0454469_2
- switch.meq0454469_1
mode: single
Though I’m a little worried abut this:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.presence_2
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
Do you really want to turn the light off if presence has been detected?
If not:
- alias: 1/2 Bad-Licht-Auto-Aus
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- switch.meq0454469_1
- switch.meq0454469_2
- binary_sensor.presence_2
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
for: '00:05:05'
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.presence_2
from: 'on'
to: 'off'
for: '00:05:05'
action:
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id:
- switch.meq0454469_2
- switch.meq0454469_1
mode: single
hey tom thanks for your help i just tried that …
alias: test
description: ''
mode: single
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_2
- platform: state
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_1
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.presence_2
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
for: '00:02:00'
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.presence_2
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
for: '00:02:00'
action:
- service: switch.turn_off
data: {}
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_2
- service: switch.turn_off
data: {}
entity_id: switch.meq0454469_1
but when I turn on the light it goes off again …
It’s probably your presence detection as I said above it should probably be:
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- switch.meq0454469_1
- switch.meq0454469_2
- binary_sensor.presence_2
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
for: '00:05:05'
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.presence_2
from: 'on'
to: 'off'
for: '00:05:05'
Hey Tom, thank you very much, it works wonderfully … Thank you very much … Even if I don’t know why yet … I have problems with many examples here in the forum … Simply copying and adapting unfortunately does not work … That is certainly due to the Formatting…
I use in Home Assistant … Visual Studio code …
Simply copy and paste doesn’t work … of course you have to adapt the entity etc. … but the formatting doesn’t work … you might have a tip
I think you should go with Tom’s second automation
Don’t feel too bad about your efforts but this is a subject we see a LOT of.
If you had searched the forum you’d have come up with many examples and we could probably do 10 or 15 variations on each one.
You may even place all the logic in a binary sensor and then just flip-flop the lights from that - which gives you a VERY short automation.
You joined Dec 29 2020 so I’m impressed with what you have accomplished in one month.
Keep trying and if there’s anything you don’t understand about Tom’s automation come back and we’ll explain
I have the same problem, VSC tries to guess your indentation, where most code snippets are already correctly indented.
After pasting hit ctrl-z and it undoes the guess - this works about 95% of the time
You may use template sensor with delay_off option on top of your actual motion sensor. This is how i made it, simple automation turns off the light due this sensor’s off event, while it turns off only after 5 mins of motion sensor silence:
- platform: template
sensors:
home_livingroom_move:
device_class: motion
value_template: "{{ is_state('binary_sensor.home_livingroom_move_sensor', 'on') }}"
delay_off:
minutes: 5