I want to trigger an announcement whenever my Weatherflow weather station detects a lightning strike. I can use the menu in Automations to select Lightning Count value changes as the trigger for my automation but when I try to save it I get an error that says: Message malformed: must contain at least one of below, above. Below and above would apply if I was triggering on “Lightning average distance changes” but there is no way in the drop-down to enter those values for "Lightning Count value changes. Am I missing something obvious?
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Yes.
Trigger on state change, NOT numeric state change.
OK but “Lightning Count value changes” is one of the triggers available in the menu so I thought there must be a way to use it?
OK so I have tested it, I’ve never added automations that way before, I always just go into the automation editor and create one from scratch.
Anyway - to do what you are trying to do, do what you did
but then use the 3 dot menu to switch to YAML mode. And add the line.
So when you first go in to YAML editor - you will see something like this:
trigger:
- type: value
platform: device
device_id: cc3afca17538b517f515fa1d9cb893f4
entity_id: 67685196234c62ffd063224a5ff2f324
domain: sensor
Simply add the line below domain: sensor
trigger:
- type: value
platform: device
device_id: cc3afca17538b517f515fa1d9cb893f4
entity_id: 67685196234c62ffd063224a5ff2f324
domain: sensor
above: 0
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I tested your solution and that did get rid of the error. Thank you for looking at this for me!
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