I just got HASS up and running yesterday, and I am running into an issue with my first automation.
A quick run down of my very simple setup:
Hass running on Debian 8 VM in a virtualenv
Couple of Philips Hue bulbs with the 2nd Gen Hue Bridge
EcoLink Z-Wave PIR motion sensor with 5th Gen Aotec Z Stick
On to the issue. I can see everything in the web interface. I can control my lights, and I see my sensor in the ‘off’ state. The problem is that the sensor never leaves the ‘off’ state. If I wave my hand in front of it the LED blinks so I know it detected motion, but it never switches state from ‘off’ to ‘on’. When viewing the same device in OpenZWave Control Panel, I can clearly see the state changing from ‘off’ to ‘on’, so this is some kind of miscommunication between the Z Wave network and HASS.
I have tried re pairing it with the Z Stick a couple of times, and even went so far as to completely rebuild HASS on a fresh Linux install thinking maybe I did something wrong.
I guess you should try to find out which part is not working. The trigger or the action. If you go the the “dev” section in your ui you could manually trigger the action part by calling service “turn.light_on”, entity_id light.basement.