Motion light only certain time of day

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So i have been playing with this automation and i am dtill having issues.

This is what i want:

1 motion only triggers light during the time of 11pm and 7am
2. turn lights off after 1:30 with no motion.

Here is my code:

alias: Living room motion lights
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.living_room_motion_occupancy
    attribute: occupancy
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: time
    before: '07:00:00'
    after: '23:00:00'
    weekday:
      - mon
      - tue
      - wed
      - thu
      - fri
      - sat
      - sun
action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    data:
      transition: 15
      brightness_pct: 25
    target:
      entity_id: light.living_room_lights
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.living_room_motion_occupancy
        from: 'on'
        to: 'off'
        for: '00:01:30'
  - service: light.turn_off
    data:
      transition: 20
    target:
      entity_id: light.living_room_lights
mode: single

If someone can help that would be awesome.

Thanks in advance

2

It looks ok. What isn’t working?

If you give the automation an id you can use the automation trace to debug it:

3

I would split the off command to a separate automation. So,

  1. automation 1: Lights on with occupancy.
    Turn off after a certain wait – or leave on?

  2. automation 2 turn off at 1:30
    – you can just turn them off, or if you don’t want an error use is_state

4

I’m not sure what the “occupancy” attribute contains but if it’s not “on” or “off” it won’t work.

you need to likely remove this:

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.living_room_motion_occupancy
    attribute: occupancy  #<--- remove this line
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
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these are the options on the sensor

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7

just leave the “attribute:” section blank. It’s optional so don’t use it.

8

This just worked for me:

alias: Turn on porch light when motion detected
description: ""
condition:
  - condition: time
    after: "21:30:00"
  - condition: sun
    before: sunrise
    after: sunset
use_blueprint:
  path: homeassistant/motion_light.yaml
  input:
    motion_entity: binary_sensor.front_door_motion
    light_target:
      device_id: e0e6de23047e42cbd9e8da2c077b5706
    no_motion_wait: 60
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