Need a little help with an automation involving MIoT

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Hi guys, I’m quite new to HASS and I’ve started building up my setup very recently.

I’ve few smart bulbs and a Xiaomi camera. The camera is quite useless as far as integration with HA is concerned, as in it can’t stream video to HA. However it has an entity called sensor.mi_xxxxxx_message with a few attributes that change whenever a person is detected or motion is detected.

So I was trying to exploit this entity to automate my light, so that I can turn on the light when a person is detected. I tried setting up an automation with the trigger as “state” and entity as “sensor.mi_xxx_mesaage”. There a re several attributes, however the one I’m interested in the one called “Title” because that is the one that gets changed whenever a motion or person is detected. So I could use this as trigger but…

There’s one problem. I could set the “To” field to “Person detected” to trigger the automation. However the title is prefixed by the time always. That is, the title changes to “10:49 Person detected!” How can I possibly test for the field to be a text that changes every time but ends with “person detected” ??

Any leads will be appreciated. Thanks!!

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You could use a template trigger.

trigger:
  - platform: template
    value_template: "{{ 'Person detected' in state_attr('sensor...etc
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Man thanks! This worked.
Although my experiment is not very efficient but I could achieve what I was trying to.
Thanks a lot 🙇🏻‍♂️