Need logic help for alerting if door is left open after dark

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I am not sure I have my logic correct yet, but my goal would be to send an alert if one of the kids leave a door or something open after dark. there’s been a few times that we have gotten up the next morning to find the garage door was left open all night.

so my logic is to set a condition that if after the sun had gone down and something is open to send the alert. my concern is I think this will send an alert every time something is opened after dark. I already have an alert for when something is left open for longer than 10 min but I also want something else if it’s dark.

also I ahve some sort of typo in this as I am getting an error…

####send notification if doors left open after Dark####
- alias: Doors/windows open after Dark
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id:
        - binary_sensor.garage_door
        - binary_sensor.front_door
        - binary_sensor.1st_floor_window
        - binary_sensor.basement_door
        - binary_sensor.basement_garage_door
        - binary_sensor.basement_windows
        - binary_sensor.breakfast_door
        - binary_sensor.sliding_glass_door
        - binary_sensor.sun_room_glass
      state: 'on'
  condition:
    condition: and
    conditions: 
      - condition: state
        entity_id: sun.sun
        state: below_horizon
      - condition: state
        entity_id: 
          - binary_sensor.garage_door
          - binary_sensor.front_door
          - binary_sensor.1st_floor_window
          - binary_sensor.basement_door
          - binary_sensor.basement_garage_door
          - binary_sensor.basement_windows
          - binary_sensor.breakfast_door
          - binary_sensor.sliding_glass_door
          - binary_sensor.sun_room_glass
        state: 'on'
  action:
    service: notify.simple    
    data_template:
      message : " {{ trigger.from_state.attributes.friendly_name }} has been left Open after dark " 
      title: "Don't forget to close doors"

here is the error:
Invalid config for [automation]: [state] is an invalid option for [automation]. Check: automation->trigger->0->state. (See /config/automations.yaml, line 232). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/automation/

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- alias: Doors/windows open after Dark
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    - platform: sun
      state: below_horizon
  condition: 
    condition: or
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: 
          - binary_sensor.garage_door
          - binary_sensor.front_door
          - binary_sensor.1st_floor_window
          - binary_sensor.basement_door
          - binary_sensor.basement_garage_door
          - binary_sensor.basement_windows
          - binary_sensor.breakfast_door
          - binary_sensor.sliding_glass_door
          - binary_sensor.sun_room_glass
        state: 'on'
  action:
    service: notify.simple    
    data_template:
      message : " {{ trigger.from_state.attributes.friendly_name }} has been left Open after dark " 
      title: "Don't forget to close doors"

conditions are already ‘and’ so you don’t need to add that in

EDIT: needed to make these all ‘or’

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I am curious though because i was after the same some time back. Wouldn’t this automation send a notification if any of the entities is on (open) at the time of sunset ? But what about an hour later ? There does not seem to be a logic that checks that if all the doors have been closed after sunset and are closed at the time he wants to go to bed then “all checks out” ? I personally gave up on the automation and instead have all my relevant entities on an entity-filter card and they only show if they are open…which i can check easily before going to bed…my 2 cts…

  - entities:
      - light.red_lamp
      - light.blue_round_table
      - switch.kitchen_hall
      - switch.kitchen_main
      - switch.sonoff_basic_relay
      - switch.sonoff_basic_relay2
    show_empty: false
    state_filter:
      - 'on'
    type: entity-filter
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Your automation will work only once, when sun goes down. But what if door was opened after sunset? Seems to me, there should be second automation, where doors would be a trigger and sun - condition

5

Sure there is. You just described it.

Trigger on sunset or bed time. Same conditions as in Dave’s example above.

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@tom_l, i meant in the automation as written above. Only trigger is sun, not mention of bedtime. Like @Argo said, the automation will run once at sunset and that’s it.

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that’s what was requested by the OP though

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True. Re-read the post, my mistake, OP was only asking for sunset trigger.