One automation, two entities but different condition on one

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1

I have an automation that turns on two different lights an hour before sunset. This automation has two entities in it. For one of the entities if it is after 8pm, I do not want that entity to have its lights turned on. Is there a way to do this?

2

I belive you’d need to use two separate automations, or node-red.

3

An action like this should work:

  action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.foo
  - condition: time
    before: '20:00:00'
  - service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.bar

Or a little fancier…

  action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    data_template:
      entity_id: "{{ 'light.foo, light.bar' if now().hour < 20 else 'light.foo' }}"
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4

so would the below incorporate the change needed. switch 2 is the one I want to not turn on if after 8

  • alias: Hall Lights - Sunset
    trigger:
    platform: sun
    event: sunset
    offset: “-00:30:00”
    action:
    • service: switch.turn_on
      data_template:
      entity_id: “{{ ‘switch.wenzhou_mtlc_electric_appliances_enerwave_unknown_type_0123_id_0345_switch_3, switch.wenzhou_mtlc_electric_appliances_enerwave_unknown_type_0123_id_0345switch_2’ if now().hour < 20 else ‘switch.wenzhou_mtlc_electric_appliances_enerwave_unknown_type_0123_id_0345_switch_3’ }}”
      condition:
      condition: time
      weekday:
      • mon
      • tue
      • wed
      • thu
      • fri
      • sat
      • sun
5

I can’t confirm your indentation without you properly formatting the YAML with three backticks (```) above and below the code…but the template looks fine. You can remove the condition at the bottom, that won’t do anything anyway.

6

thats think out side the box

didn’t think to have a condition in side a action

will have give it a go

:beers:

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7

Thank you for your help

8

Also you could use a service-template with complex conditions for every individual action.