Hey!
I’m currently trying to set up an automation to start fading in a light when someone gets home before sunset. I’d like to use a transition and make sure the brightness is at 100% by sunset. So for example, if a person arrives at home exactly 2 hours before sunset, the transition time would be 7200 seconds, 1 hour before sunset and 3600 seconds etc.
I was able to create a template that returns the seconds until sunset, the template renders fine and returns a correct number but somehow I haven’t been able to use that value for the transition. Does anyone have an idea on how to make it work? Here’s my automation:
alias: Light on at sunset
id: light_on_sunset
trigger:
- event: sunset
offset: -02:00:00
platform: sun
- platform: state
entity_id: group.all_devices
to: 'home'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: group.all_devices
state: home
- condition: sun
after: sunset
after_offset: -02:00:00
action:
- alias: Light on
service: light.turn_on
data:
entity_id: light.Lamp
transition: >
{% set secondsToSunset = as_timestamp(states.sun.sun.attributes.next_setting) - as_timestamp(now()) | int %}
{% if secondsToSunset < 7200 %}
{{ secondsToSunset | int }}
{% elif secondsToSunset < 0%}
0
{% else %}
0
{% endif %}
brightness_pct: 100
color_temp: 500
