No Automations triggered with Input Boolean or Switch Button

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Hi everybody,

I have buttons in my Lovelace frontend. Each one turns on and off a scene (to look a film, a movie etc).
I have automations to manage the lights (time conditions, strenghth…), triggered by the scenes.
If I send a command turn_on for a scene, everything works perfectly. With the toggle action of the button, the scene turn on, but no automation lights works.

For exemple here, when I push the button to switch between the scenes “je_regarde_une_serie” and “la_serie_est_finie”, the automation to turn on the scenes “ambiance_cosy_de_la_bibliotheque” and “allume_les_lumieres_du_cinema” doesn’t work. But it’s woking when I send the turn_on command.
I’ve tried two possibilities:

        cards:
          - type: custom:decluttering-card
            template: button_série
            variables:
              - name: Série
              - entity: input_boolean.serie_power_switch

  button_série:
    card: 
      type: 'custom:button-card'  
      color: auto
      size: 50%
      show_icon: false
      entity: '[[entity]]'
      show_last_changed: true
      aspect_ratio: 1/1
      show_state: true
      name: '[[name]]'
      show_label: true
      tap_action:
        action: toggle
        haptic: light

automation:
  - alias: "[Boolean] Serie on"
    initial_state: on
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: input_boolean.serie_power_switch
        to: "on"
    action:
      - service: scene.turn_on
        entity_id: scene.je_regarde_une_serie
  - alias: "[Boolean] Serie off"
    initial_state: on
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: input_boolean.serie_power_switch
        to: "off"
    action:
      - service: scene.turn_on
        entity_id: scene.la_serie_est_finie

automation.yaml :

- id: '1612296465924'
  alias: Ambiance couché après une série
  trigger:
  - event_data:
      domain: scene
      service: turn_on
      service_data:
        entity_id: scene.la_serie_est_finie
    event_type: call_service
    platform: event
  condition:
  - condition: time
    after: '21:00:00'
    before: 05:00:00
  action:
  - service: scene.turn_on
    entity_id: scene.ambiance_cosy_de_la_bibliotheque
  - service: scene.turn_on
    entity_id: scene.allume_les_lumieres_du_cinema
  mode: parallel
  max: 10

And then I thought, that an input_boolean is an automation and maybe it can’t triggered another automation, so I’ve tried with a switch:

        cards:
          - type: custom:decluttering-card
            template: button_série
            variables:
              - name: Série
              - entity: switch.serie_power_switch

  button_série:
    card: 
      type: 'custom:button-card'  
      color: auto
      size: 50%
      show_icon: false
      entity: '[[entity]]'
      show_last_changed: true
      aspect_ratio: 1/1
      show_state: true
      name: '[[name]]'
      show_label: true
      tap_action:
        action: toggle
        haptic: light

switch:
  - platform: template
    switches:
      serie_power_switch:
        value_template: "{{ is_state('input_boolean.serie_power_switch', 'on') }}"
        turn_on:
          - service: scene.turn_on
            entity_id: scene.je_regarde_une_serie
          - service: input_boolean.turn_on
            entity_id: input_boolean.serie_power_switch
        turn_off:
          - service: scene.turn_on
            entity_id: scene.la_serie_est_finie
          - service: input_boolean.turn_off
            entity_id: input_boolean.serie_power_switch

automation.yaml :

- id: '1612296465924'
  alias: Ambiance couché après une série
  trigger:
  - event_data:
      domain: scene
      service: turn_on
      service_data:
        entity_id: scene.la_serie_est_finie
    event_type: call_service
    platform: event
  condition:
  - condition: time
    after: '21:00:00'
    before: 05:00:00
  action:
  - service: scene.turn_on
    entity_id: scene.ambiance_cosy_de_la_bibliotheque
  - service: scene.turn_on
    entity_id: scene.allume_les_lumieres_du_cinema
  mode: parallel
  max: 10

Can you help me please? What I’m doing wrong?

Thank you

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I’m not aware of any way to toggle a scene. When you take a look at Developer Tools - > Services, there is no service scene.toggle

As a workaround, you could create a second scene for ‘off’ and play with the several actions, e.g.


type: custom:button-card
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: scene.turn_on
  service_data:
    entity_id: scene.essen_an     ## scene entities on
double_tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: scene.turn_on
  service_data:
    entity_id: scene.essen_aus      ## scene entities off

Alternatively for the ‘off’-action:

double_tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: light.turn_off  ## or: `homeassistant.turn_off`
  service_data:
    entity_id:
      - light.1
      - light.2

EDIT: Murphy’s Law… Haven’t seen the automation following your first code… The first automation is working: If the input_boolean’s state changes to ‘on’, the scene turns on.
But I don’t understand the event stuff in your second automation.

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hi pedolsky, thanks for answering :slight_smile:

I’ve thought about working with tap_action to turn on and double_tap_action to turn off to avoid the problem. Because the other tap buttons are working with the automations.
But I do prefer a “on/off” button if it’s possible.

To explain the second automation :
I have lot’s of light scenes, automatically activated with tv/movie/serie/etc scenes.
This case is one exemple. Here, the second automation is attached to two lights scenes. When I switch off the serie, it’s automatically calling a scene to open the light on slowly in the main room (during 10) and some other in another room (to avoid to shoot something when I go to bed :smile:). With a time condition, because it’s not necessary during the daylight.
I have a few automation like that, automatically activated when some scene.tun_on are called. It avoid me te rewrite the conditional lights settings in every tv/movie/serie/etc scenes, and it works very well.

But if I call the exact same tv/movie/serie/etc scene in the “on/off switch” or “on/off input bootlean” button card in lovelace, it’s seems that the call service are missing the automation, or something like that. And it doesn’t activate the light scenes.

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You could try another condition scheme:


trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.serie_power_switch
    to: 'off'
action:
  - scene: scene.la_serie_est_finie
  - condition: time
    after: '21:00:00'
    before: '05:00:00'
  - scene: scene.x
  - scene: scene.y
5

I’ll try that, but without the scene.la_serie_est_finie, which I could turn_on during all the day (it switch off the serie)
If it doesn’t work, then I’ll try this also :

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: scene.la_serie_est_finie
    to: 'on'
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Just tried, it seems that your solution is working like that :

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.serie_power_switch
    to: 'off'
action:
  - condition: time
    after: '21:00:00'
    before: '05:00:00'
  - scene: scene.x
  - scene: scene.y

and not my solution with the scene.

I try a little more tonight.
Thank you for your help :+1:

7

It worked very well during the night. I’ve tried the solution with other scenes and light automations.

Thanks for you help ! :+1: