Motion activated lights switch on and off

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1

Hi,

I have an automation to switch on lights when motion is detected and after 3 minutes after a detection is cleared switch light off. I found how in this topic
I created this YAML for it:

alias: Verlichting Hal nacht
description: Licht hal aan op 20% tussen 23:15 en 07:45 voor 3 minuten bij beweging
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - >-
        binary_sensor.hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_motion_sensor_status
    to: "on"
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - >-
        binary_sensor.hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_motion_sensor_status
    to: "off"
    for:
      minutes: 3
conditions:
  - condition: time
    after: "23:15:00"
    before: "07:45:00"
    enabled: false
actions:
  - metadata: {}
    data:
      brightness_pct: 100
    target:
      device_id:
        - e7322370ab952c69324324804139376a
        - d6874503c6ef5288149aa0b3d261494c
    action: light.turn_{{ trigger.to_state.state }}
mode: single

When motion is detected the light go on to 100% then is stops, when motion is cleared and 3 minuts are past I would expect lights to go off. This does not happen. I checked the state of the motion sensor and this goes from detected and then to cleared. I noticed that in the visual editor states are called detected & cleared:

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As always I probably make a thinking error. Hope that someone can point me to what I am doing wrong here.

Thanks, Bernard

2

I may be wrong, but I don’t think trigger to state works with device IDs. Have you tried using the entity ID of the light, as in the original example you looked at?

3

Thanks for the hint, changed the from device to entity. Still the same motion detected lights on, but after 3 minutes not switched off. New YAML:

alias: Verlichting Hal nacht
description: Licht hal aan op 20% tussen 23:15 en 07:45 voor 3 minuten bij beweging
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - >-
        binary_sensor.hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_motion_sensor_status
    to: "on"
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - >-
        binary_sensor.hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_motion_sensor_status
    to: "off"
    for:
      minutes: 3
conditions:
  - condition: time
    after: "23:15:00"
    before: "07:45:00"
    enabled: false
actions:
  - target:
      entity_id:
        - light.verlichting_hal_boven_hal_verlichting_hal_boven_dimmer_1
        - light.hal_verlichting_hal_beneden_hal_verlichting_hal_beneden_dimmer_1
    data:
      brightness_pct: 20
    action: light.turn_{{ trigger.to_state.state }}
mode: single

Looking at the logs/traces I found that it gets triggered to switch off but the statement:

brightness_pct: 20

is causing it to fail to switch off. I am not able to set the brightness using this way of motion detection and switching on and off.

Any thoughts on how to get this done? Motion detected, lights on for 3 min at 20% brightness then switch off.
Now it will use last state and that is to much light in nighttime.
Thanks for helping out.

4

Solved it by triggering on detection to switch on then timer 3 min then switch off, YAML:

alias: Verlichting Hal nacht
description: Licht hal aan op 20% tussen 23:15 en 07:45 voor 3 minuten bij beweging
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - >-
        binary_sensor.hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_hal_bewegingssenor_hal_boven_motion_sensor_status
    to: "on"
conditions:
  - condition: time
    after: "23:15:00"
    before: "07:45:00"
    enabled: true
actions:
  - action: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data:
      brightness_pct: 20
    target:
      device_id:
        - d6874503c6ef5288149aa0b3d261494c
        - e7322370ab952c69324324804139376a
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 3
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - action: light.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      device_id:
        - d6874503c6ef5288149aa0b3d261494c
        - e7322370ab952c69324324804139376a
mode: single