Presence Sensor Light automation

[antoniopacheco (Jesus Antonio Pacheco Morales)]

Turn on / off lights using presence sensor
with configuration like:

• Brighter percentage
• Wait time
• Transition time
• Light sensor

based on Motion light blueprint from home-assistant.

blueprint:
  name: Presence-activated Light
  description: Turn on a light when presence is detected.
  domain: automation
  source_url: https://github.com/antoniopacheco/presence_light/presence_light.yaml
  input:
    presence_entity:
      name: Presence Sensor
      description: Presence sensor device
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: binary_sensor
          device_class: occupancy
    light_target:
      name: Light
      description: Light device
      selector:
        target:
          entity:
            domain: light
    bright_percentage:
      name: Bright Percentage
      description: Brightness level that the light will turn into once is turned on
      default: 100
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0
          max: 100
          unit_of_measurement: percentage
    no_motion_wait:
      name: Wait time
      description: Time to leave the light on after last motion is detected.
      default: 0
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0
          max: 3600
          unit_of_measurement: seconds
    off_transition:
      name: Transition time
      description: Time in seconds of transition turning off
      default: 0
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0
          max: 60
          unit_of_measurement: seconds
    light_sensor:
      name: Light sensor
      description: Light sensor to read from
      default: []
      selector:
        entity:
          domain:
            - sensor
          device_class:
            - illuminance
          multiple: false
    light_threshold:
      name: Light threshold
      description: Light sensor‘s lower threshold
      default: 200
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0
          max: 255

# If presence is detected within the delay,
# we restart the script.
mode: restart
max_exceeded: silent

trigger:
  platform: state
  entity_id: !input presence_entity
  from: "off"
  to: "on"

condition:
  - condition: numeric_state
    entity_id: !input light_sensor
    below: !input light_threshold

action:
  - alias: "Turn on the light"
    service: light.turn_on
    target: !input light_target
    data:
      brightness_pct: !input bright_percentage

  - alias: "Wait until there is no motion from device"
    wait_for_trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: !input presence_entity
      from: "on"
      to: "off"
  - alias: "Wait the number of seconds that has been set"
    delay: !input no_motion_wait
  - alias: "Turn off the light"
    service: light.turn_off
    target: !input light_target
    data:
      transition: !input off_transition

[bwaller (Billy Waller)]

Any chance to add an “on_transition” option?

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

Here’s a version that fixes the deprecated entity selector syntax and adds a condition selector to allow users to impose conditions as desired.
Requires HA 2023.8.0 or newer to handle the condition selector.
You can use what you like here in your main BP, it’s all yours. This was done to help one of your users in another thread

blueprint:
  name: Presence-activated Light
  description: Turn on a light when presence is detected.
  homeassistant:
    min_version: 2023.8.0
  domain: automation
  source_url: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/presence-sensor-light-automation/564590
  input:
    presence_entity:
      name: Presence Sensor
      description: Presence sensor device
      selector:
        entity:
          filter:
            domain:
            - binary_sensor
            device_class:
            - occupancy
          multiple: false
    light_target:
      name: Light
      description: Light device
      selector:
        target:
          entity:
          - domain:
            - light
    bright_percentage:
      name: Bright Percentage
      description: Brightness level that the light will turn into once is turned on
      default: 100
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0.0
          max: 100.0
          unit_of_measurement: percentage
          mode: slider
          step: 1.0
    no_motion_wait:
      name: Wait time
      description: Time to leave the light on after last motion is detected.
      default: 0
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0.0
          max: 3600.0
          unit_of_measurement: seconds
          mode: slider
          step: 1.0
    off_transition:
      name: Transition time
      description: Time in seconds of transition turning off
      default: 0
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0.0
          max: 60.0
          unit_of_measurement: seconds
          mode: slider
          step: 1.0
    light_sensor:
      name: Light sensor
      description: Light sensor to read from
      default: []
      selector:
        entity:
          filter:
            domain:
            - sensor
            device_class:
            - illuminance
          multiple: false
    light_threshold:
      name: Light threshold
      description: Light sensor‘s lower threshold
      default: 200
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0.0
          max: 255.0
          mode: slider
          step: 1.0
    additional_conditions:
      name: Additional conditions
      description: |
        Extra conditions you may want to add to this automation 
        (Example: Home occupied, TV on, etc)
      default: []
      selector:
        condition:
trigger:
  platform: state
  entity_id: !input presence_entity
  from: 'off'
  to: 'on'
condition:
- condition: numeric_state
  entity_id: !input light_sensor
  below: !input light_threshold
- condition: !input additional_conditions

action:
- alias: Turn on the light
  service: light.turn_on
  target: !input light_target
  data:
    brightness_pct: !input bright_percentage
- alias: Wait until there is no motion from device
  wait_for_trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: !input presence_entity
    from: 'on'
    to: 'off'
- alias: Wait the number of seconds that has been set
  delay: !input no_motion_wait
- alias: Turn off the light
  service: light.turn_off
  target: !input light_target
  data:
    transition: !input off_transition

mode: restart
max_exceeded: silent

@Sir_Goodenough

Fixed the selector filters to the new format, moved mode to the end because sometimes, oddly, I have seen it cause issues located other places, and add a condition selector so that you can add any condition you like. Requires HA version 2023.8.0 or newer to handle the condition selector.

[yetisbey (Oguz)]

Hey!
thank you for the solution! but I think there is a minor issue and I couldn’t fix it.

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

That is a false positive. Save to ignore.

Condition selector causes syntax check false error

If you go to the issue and click thumbs up on my post, it will show others are seeing it as well.

You could also use the long form of the syntax and that won’t kick up in vscode.

[UsefulVid]

Not working with ZY-M100-S_2 as it has a presence and not a occupancy value in mqtt (z2m)

[mitchins (Mitchell Currie)]

@UsefulVid

Not working with ZY-M100-S_2 as it has a presence and not a occupancy value in mqtt (z2m)

You can change how it appears by clicking on the attribute under the device, and then clicking the gear/cog at the top right.

[jbhobson (Justin H.)]

@antoniopacheco

Is there any chance you might be able to add some conditions, either ‘when sun elevation is x degrees above/below the horizon’ or even a basic ‘only work between x:xx AM and x:xx PM’ ?

The base blueprint works great, but find that it works 24x7, so when using for turning on lights based on presense/motion it ends up turning the lights on even when its the middle of the day and wastes energy.

Thanks for the consideration if you could add !