Newbie question about schedule a lamp

Configuration
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either you copied wrong name or you didn’t setup correctly this integration.

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I don’t have a clue what I’m doing wrong

23

Go to settings - > system - > logs and check for errors especially from your integration. You can also load full logs.
Post it here just a relevant part because it will be huge.

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I’m running the latest HA and almost all instructions and guidelines on internet and on forums seems to be based on older versions of HA. Maybe that’s because I don’t understand anything right now.
This is my absolute first try to make a simple schedule for one of my configured Nexa wall-switch (that I can manual turn on and off)
I should really appreciate an explanation, how to do this, from the very beginning.
It’s maybe some basic stuff that’s missing, but I don’t know

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Go to Developer Tools > States and confirm switch.oo_5 is in the list (look in the Entity column). Confirm its current state value is either off or on (and not unavailable or unknown).

Or go to Settings > Devices & Services > Entities and confirm switch.oo_5 is in the list (look in the Entity ID column).

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Yes, there it is and the state is Off

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  • Using the Automation Editor, create a new, empty automation.
  • In the upper right hand corner of the Automation Editor, click the “kebab icon” (three vertical dots) and select Edit in YAML.
  • Delete whatever appears in the editing window.
  • Copy the following automation and paste it into the editing window.
alias: Nexa lamp controller
trigger:
  - id: 'on'
    platform: time
    at: 19:00:00
  - id: 'off'
    platform: time
    at: 23:00:00
condition:
  - condition: time
    before: "00:00:00"
    after: "19:00:00"
    weekday:
      - mon
      - tue
      - wed
      - thu
      - fri
action:
  - service: 'switch.turn_{{ trigger.id }}'
    target:
      entity_id: switch.oo_5
  • Click the Save button and then click the Rename button.
  • Click the “kebab icon” again and select Edit in Visual Editor.
  • Your automation is now displayed in visual mode and has been saved and is functional.
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Yes ! It’s working. :upside_down_face:
But, what do you mean by “Your automation is now displayed in visual mode” ?

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Sorry, now I understand

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The Automation Editor has two display modes:

  1. Visual
  2. YAML

You can toggle between the two modes via ‘Edit YAML’/‘Edit in visual editor’.

You initially switched the Automation Editor into YAML mode, copy-pasted the example I posted, saved it, then switched back to visual mode.

You can, of course, create/modify an automation entirely in visual mode. However, for sharing automation examples, it’s much easier to just copy-paste YAML than to post screenshots.

31

Thanks a lot !
Now it’s working and I’m happy.
It’s hard to explain problem, when you know nothing about this.
I’m in a learning phase.

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You’re welcome!

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