My Automatons are not triggering

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I have a fewe motion sensors that trigger some events. For example if i go into the kitchen after a certain time it turns the lights on and another that turns them off after a period of time. Changed my router reconnected every thing and now they do not trigger.
I can go into Automatons and click execute and they work. Anyone know what i am doing wrong.

- alias: Turn on kitchen light when there is movement
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.motion_sensor_158d00020e5e79
    to: 'on'
  condition:
    condition: and
    conditions:
     condition: time
     after: '19:00:00'
     before: '07:00:00'
  action:
    service: homeassistant.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.other_thing
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  1. You dont need “and” when you only have one condition (and “and” is default anyway)
  2. Time can never be both before 07:00 AND after 19:00 at the same time.

You need to split the conditions to two different conditions, and use “or”

 condition:
   condition: or
   conditions:
   - condition: time
     after: '19:00:00'
   - condition: time
     before: '07:00:00'

(Not tested, might contain a typo or two)

3

This caught me out a few times early on. It’s natural to think of night-time as “between 1900 and 0700”, but from the clock’s point of view, it’s 1900 to 2359 on one day, then resets to 0000 on the next day as a completely separate “section of time”.

Of course, you can code day-time as after 0700 and before 1900, and that would work just fine.

4

@Olen @Troon

Actually, for a time condition, that works and it means just what you would think – between 7:00 PM in the evening and 7:00 AM the next morning. (It’s not the same as with the sun condition, which, BTW, should be changed to allow this, which I’ve looked into doing, but it’s a bit more complicated than it seems on the surface.) So, anyway, that’s not the problem.

@ronbentley9

Have you looked at the history of binary_sensor.motion_sensor_158d00020e5e79? Is it changing to 'on' from something else? Is the automation turned on? Have you tried calling the automation.trigger service from the SERVICES tab with skip_condition set to false during the specified time range?

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Thanks for you help. It was me being stupid. The code worked but it was past 7 am when i checked it. so it did not trigger :slight_smile: Sometimes you just need to check the obvious.

6

Would be very interested on how i could get this to work on the sun condition because as you alluded to It depends on the time of year it would need to trigger the automation.

7

I have the following in one of my automations:

- id: awning_up_sun_down
  alias: Awning up at sunset
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    value_template: "{{ state_attr('sun.sun', 'elevation') }}"
    below: 12.0
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    value_template: "{{ state_attr('sun.sun', 'azimuth') }}"
    above: 272.0
  condition: 
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ state_attr('sun.sun', 'azimuth') | float > 272 }}"
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ state_attr('sun.sun', 'elevation') | float < 12 }}"
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ states('sensor.awning') != 'up' }}"
  action:
  - service: script.awning_up

The point is that the sun will disappear behind a building when it is BOTH below 12° elevation and its azimuth is above 272°.
So I wait for both of these to be true.

If the sun is below 12° above horizon, it will still shine in if it has not passed behind the building at 272°.
(This happens in the spring and autumn, when the sun is low in the sky).
But in the summer, the sun can be well past 272°, and still be above the 12° elevation of the building.

So when both conditions are true (and I don’t know which one will be true first, because that depends on the season), the awning will be moved to the “up” position.

8

See previous post for one way to do it. Also, see sun conditions for documentation on the sun condition and its various options.

9

Been using Sun for a week now and very impressed. Turns on and off at the right time.

Thanks everyone