💡 Sensor Light - Motion Sensor - Door Sensor - Sun Elevation - LUX Value - Scenes - Time - Light Control - Device Tracker - Night Lights

Blacky · April 14, 2023, 12:54pm

This is a custom automation but you still can do it with this blueprint and another one of my blueprint. It is simpler to André question above.

Below example is if your using the same light/s in everything.

First you will need to download another one of my blueprints called Turn Light, Switch or Scene On & Off with Trigger Conditions. This will be used for your (1) ON at 8pm and (4) OFF at 11pm. Set it up for this time. Then set up a scene for your ON (1) and put that in “Lights - Switches - Entities - Scenes”. We will call that scene “scene 1” for this example but you can name it anything you like. Then create an identical scene with everything OFF and put that into “Scenes To Turn OFF”

Once that is done Use this blueprint (sensor Light) for (2) and (3). So for (2) you would create a scene and set the brightness level you like and put that in “Lights - Switches - Scenes”. Then enter “Scene 1” used in the other automation and put that into “Scenes To Turn OFF”. Set the time under “Use The Time Options” to only run between 8pm and 11pm.

Now use this blueprint (sensor light) again and create another automation for (5) and (6) this time you can use a scene or not and set up the light to come ON and OFF as you like. Set the time under “Use The Time Options” to only run between 11pm and 8pm (note the reverse time).

With the 2 automations using the blueprint (sensor light) you can also set the other options if you like. Example “Use The Sun Option (Optional)”.

Hope this helps you.

Let us know how you go.

Blacky

NickM · April 14, 2023, 9:50pm

Very nice blueprint here! The only thing i’m missing here is to make the lamps go to there previous state. Or am i looking over this?

geox19 · April 14, 2023, 9:54pm

I think two post up explains how to achieve this. Didn’t read it real close yet but I’m thinking that’s what Blacky is explaining

Blacky:

Andre3000:

The goal is that for example if the sun goes down OR a specific lux value a light group should go on at 20%. With detected motion the lights should go to 100% and back again to 20% after few minutes without motion detected. As soon as the sun goes up or again specific lux value the lights should turn off.

Currently you can’t do what your asking in just this one blueprint, but there is a work around.

This is how you would do it. In this blueprint (sensor Light) create a scene with 100% lights and put it into “Lights - Switches - Scenes”, then create another scene with 20% lights an put it in “Scenes To Turn OFF”. Now set your option, sun goes down OR a specific lux value.

Now you will need to get another one of my blueprints called Turn Light, Switch or Scene On & Off with Trigger Conditions. This will turn it on and off on a trigger condition when the sun goes down OR a specific lux value. Once you got the other blueprint enter your scene of 20% in “Lights - Switches - Entities - Scenes” then create another scene that turns everything off and enter it in “Scenes To Turn OFF”. Now set your option, sun goes down OR a specific lux value.

The 2 blueprints will work together and give you what your asking

Hope this helps

Edit: Let us know how you go.

Blacky

Blacky · April 15, 2023, 9:39am

FAQ - The Settings & Best Practice Guidelines

Trigger Sensor - Binary Sensors

This is the trigger sensor that will turn ON “Lights - Switches – Scenes” and “Night Lights”. The trigger can be any Binary Sensor you like and you can add as many trigger sensors as you like.

You can also add a schedule as the trigger. This will add a trigger based on time of day. For more information + Pro Tips Click Here

NOTE: When adding multiple trigger sensors, in particular a sensor that can remain in an ON state for long periods of time, it is recommended to group these sensors together as the automation will function correctly. Sometimes depending on many factors, just having 2 or more trigger sensors prevents the automation from function correctly and grouping these sensors together helps. For more information on how to set up group sensors please Click Here. Example of these sensors are;

Presence sensor
mm wave sensor
Contact sensor
Door sensor
Window sensor
Garage door sensor
Motion sensors with long inbuilt delays

If you would like to create a template trigger sensor so you can use it in the blueprint Click Here for some examples. This is a realy good read, and I would strongly recommend you take a look at it. This shows how you can make this blueprint even better. The “Bee In The Hive” sensor is the one I realy love , it will take your automatons to the next level.

Lights - Switches – Scenes

This is where you select what lights, switches or scenes you would like to turn ON. The automation only supports entities. Having the ability to select areas and devices is a nice quick easy way to find your entities. When selecting areas or devices, click the expand button “<>” as shown below. This will expand out your area or device so you can quickly find your entities. Your final selection should look all green and only have lights, switches or scenes entities.

Areas

Devices

Entities

Scenes To Turn OFF

If you have selected a scene to be turned ON above in “Lights - Switches - Scenes” or below in “Night Lights” and you would like it to be turned OFF after the time delay, you must create another identical scene with everything OFF and select it here. See below example.

Time Delay

Once the trigger no longer detects any motion or it returns to its OFF state the automation will start the time delay before turning OFF the lights. This allows for a buffer zone where you may need time to exit the area before the lights will turn OFF. The buffer zone can also be used to wait and see if the trigger, triggers again within a time period before turning OFF the lights. It helps to smooth out your lights by keep the lights ON so you don’t have your lights turning ON and OFF every time the trigger is triggered. If your lights keep turning OFF while you’re still in the room consider extending the time delay to give the buffer zone more time to wait for the trigger to be triggered again. Sometimes if this doesn’t work and your using 2 or more trigger sensors you may need to group the trigger sensors. See trigger sensor above for more information.

Light Control Options

This allows you to select what option you would like to control in your light entity.

Brightness – Your light must be able to support brightness control by being able to dim the light in Home Assistant.
Colour Temperature - Your light must be able to support colour temperature by being able to adjust the colour temperature in Home Assistant. Some LED lights that can change colour may also support colour temperature.
Transition – If your lights support brightness or colour temperature then this is the time it will take to transition to the next state. A state change can be from OFF to ON, from ON to OFF, from normal lights to night lights and from night lights to normal lights.

For each option you select you also have the ability to adjust the setting. More information is next to each setting.

If you have selected an option and your light doesn’t support it then the light will simply just turn ON.

Trigger Sensor By-pass

The by-pass allows you to regain manual control your lights, switches and scenes. When you turn ON the by-pass the automation will be paused. When you turn OFF your by-pass the automation goes OFF pause. For the automation to work correctly the by-pass entity cannot be included in, “Lights - Switches - Scenes” and or “Night Lights” selections.

If you don’t have a physical switch to use as a by-pass you can create one in Home Assistant that will allow you to use the by-pass. If you would like to create a by-pass switch in Home Assistant then follow the steps below.

How to create a By-pass switch

First go to Settings / Devices & Services / click on the “Helpers” tab / click “+ CREATE HELPER” and select “Toggle”.
In the name area, enter a name that best suits you. For this example we will put “Sensor Light By-pass”. Then click save.
Go back into the automation and in the “Trigger Sensor By-pass Options (Optional)” select an option you would like to use and then in “Trigger Sensor By-pass - Switch” search for the name you created, in our case “Sensor Light By-pass”. Then click save.

Note: You can also set the “Trigger Sensor By-pass - Time Delay” to your liking.

How to add by-pass switch to a dashboard

In a “Dashboard” click “Edit dashboard” then click “+ ADD CARD” click on “Button” or “Entities” and in the entity field again search for the name (entity) you created in our case “Sensor Light By-pass”. Then click save.
Then click “DONE”.

You now have a “Sensor Light By-pass” switch to pause your sensor light automation

There are also a few extra by-pass settings to set when using this option. More information is next to each setting.

By-pass Auto OFF

This is used when you turn the by-pass ON and you would like the by-pass to automatically turn OFF in a set time delay.

It can also be used as a timer to turn the lights ON and then OFF if you have chosen to use “Enable the By-pass - Turn lights ON”. When you turn ON the by-pass it will turn ON your light. When the by-pass turns OFF in its set time delay and the trigger is OFF it will turn your light OFF.

Conditions

All the conditions are global and can work alongside with the other conditions. You can select one or all of them but if enabled each condition must pass for the lights, switches or scenes to turn ON. Example: If you enable all of them and one of them has not been met, then the automation will not run.

Sun, ambient & time can also trigger your automation. This will only happen when the “trigger Sensor” is ON at the time the sensor crosses over it setting. Example: If your motion sensor is ON (motion detected) and you are using the sun as a condition, if the sun is above the “Sun Elevation” setting the light will be OFF. If the sun then crosses from above to below the “Sun Elevation” setting then the light will be turned ON. The same theory applies for ambient and time and also works for turning your lights ON and OFF.

Sun
This is used for adding a condition to only work when it is dark or below the “Sun Elevation” setting.
I thought about “Sunset” and “Sunrise” but HA recommend using sun elevation as it works better throughout the year. So I took their advice and used the sun elevation.
If you would like more information on this and how to set it up correctly see or FAQ Click Here
Ambient
This is used for adding a condition to only work when it is dark or below the “Ambient Light LUX Value”. There are some extra settings to select when setting this up so it will function correctly. More information is next to each setting.
If you would like to use 2 or more ambient light sensors see our FAQ on how to set this up Click Here
If you are having a problem with site condition setting and your just using scenes then Click Here
Time
This is used for adding time conditions. You have a start time, end time and weekdays.
For more information on the time settings see our FAQ Click Here
Device Tracker
Home Assistant can track your devices (mobile phones) location to a set zone via the mobile app device tracker. Enabling this option will only allow the automation to run if a device is in the zone. This can be useful if you have pets triggering the trigger sensor turning your lights ON and OFF when no one is home.

Night Lights

Night lights allow you to set different lights, switches and scenes by using a time or sun condition to choose when these lights will be active. It has a few settings that are the same as normal lights but you will notice it has “Night Lights Conditions”. If you choose to “Enable time option” the night lights will be active during the set time period. If you choose to “Enable sun elevation option” the night lights will be active when the sun is below the “Sun Elevation” setting. You can enable both conditions if you like but they both must be met for the night lights to work.

TIP: If you would like to have lower softer lights come ON when going to the bathroom at night, you can use “Night Lights - Time Condition” and set a time period when you are normally sleeping. Then set up your lights to your liking. Now when you get up between the set time period at night to go to the bathroom your lights will come ON to your liking.

Night lights will still have to pass all the conditions set for normal lights.

For more information on the time settings see our FAQ Click Here

For more information on the other night light settings that are the same as normal lights please refer to the above.

Hope this helps to explain some of the settings

Enjoy

Blacky

Back to FAQ: Click Here

Blacky · April 15, 2023, 9:48am

@NickM

Hi Nick, firstly welcome to the community .

As @geox19 reply, the previous post explains how to achieve this. The basic principle is by using scenes and creating a scene of what you would like at the end and put it into “Scenes To Turn OFF”.

Blacky · April 15, 2023, 10:59am

New update 3.1

If you are upgrading from version 2.8 and below please read the release notes of version 2.9 before upgrading as you will need to clean up a bit of code in the YAML. Click Here to see version 2.9 release notes. If you are updating from version 2.9 and above you good to go.

New Features

Transitions will now work with scenes. Now it will transition a light entity with a brightness setting in a scene.

Bugs Fixes

Fixed light flicker when crossing over from normal lights to night lights and from night lights to normal lights in a time trigger. Note: For the crossover to work only entities can be selected. Currently areas and or devices are not supported.

EDIT: If you updated in the first 35 min of this release, please update again, something (a bug) snuck back into the code. Sorry

Enjoy

Blacky

barcomoon · April 15, 2023, 2:27pm

Thanks for the great blueprint! The new version seems to be working although I do get some warnings in the log:

2023-04-15 16:25:10.010 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.template] Template variable warning: 'dict object' has no attribute 'entity_id' when rendering '{% set a = light_switch.entity_id %} {% set b = night_lights.entity_id %} {% if a and b %}
  {{ b | reject('in', a) | list }}
{% else %}
  []
{% endif %}'
2023-04-15 16:25:10.603 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Unable to find referenced entities light.hue_play_1, light.hue_play_1_2, light.hue_play_2, light.hue_play_2_2, light.hue_play_4 or it is/they are currently not available
2023-04-15 16:25:10.611 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Unable to find referenced entities light.hue_play_1, light.hue_play_1_2, light.hue_play_2, light.hue_play_2_2, light.hue_play_4 or it is/they are currently not available

Seems to happen each time the automation is triggered.

Blacky · April 15, 2023, 2:34pm

Hi @barcomoon

Firstly welcome to the community.

Could you post your YAML code. In automation, top 3 dots, edit in YAML, copy code and use the “</>” in this forum when pasting your code.

barcomoon · April 15, 2023, 2:58pm

Thanks!

Sure, thanks for looking into this. To rule out other issues I made some changes to naming of lights but the message is the same:


2023-04-15 16:52:28.659 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.template] Template variable warning: 'dict object' has no attribute 'entity_id' when rendering '{% set a = light_switch.entity_id %} {% set b = night_lights.entity_id %} {% if a and b %}
  {{ a | reject('in', b) | list }}
{% else %}
  []
{% endif %}'
2023-04-15 16:52:28.662 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.template] Template variable warning: 'dict object' has no attribute 'entity_id' when rendering '{% set a = light_switch.entity_id %} {% set b = night_lights.entity_id %} {% if a and b %}
  {{ b | reject('in', a) | list }}
{% else %}
  []
{% endif %}'
2023-04-15 16:52:29.328 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Unable to find referenced entities light.hue_play_servieskast_links, light.hue_play_servieskast_rechts, light.hue_play_tv_links, light.hue_play_tv_midden, light.hue_play_tv_rechts or it is/they are currently not available
2023-04-15 16:52:29.329 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Unable to find referenced entities light.hue_play_servieskast_links, light.hue_play_servieskast_rechts, light.hue_play_tv_links, light.hue_play_tv_midden, light.hue_play_tv_rechts or it is/they are currently not available

This is my config for this particular automation:


alias: Verlichting - Woonkamer
description: ""
use_blueprint:
  path: Blackshome/sensor-light.yaml
  input:
    light_brightness: 95
    time_delay: 4
    motion_trigger:
      - binary_sensor.woonkamer_light_trigger
    include_ambient: ambient_enabled
    ambient_light_options: ambient_light_option_enabled
    ambient_light_value: 80
    ambient_light_sensor: sensor.hue_motion_sensor_1_illuminance_5
    include_light_control:
      - use_brightness
      - use_transition
    light_transition_on: 2
    light_transition_off: 10
    light_switch:
      entity_id:
        - light.hue_play_tv_links
        - light.hue_play_tv_midden
        - light.hue_play_tv_rechts
        - light.hue_play_servieskast_links
        - light.hue_play_servieskast_rechts

The lights are all HUE lights. The light trigger is a helper with a few motion sensors.

The automation actually works but the warning messages are filing up the log.

Blacky · April 15, 2023, 3:03pm

Could you try and put any 2 lights used in “Lights - Switches - Scenes” into “Night Lights” but you dont have to “Enable the night lights options”.

Let us know how you go.

barcomoon · April 15, 2023, 3:09pm

Ok, that got rid of the first two warnings (template variable warning). The last two still persists (unable to find referenced entities):


2023-04-15 17:07:18.566 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Unable to find referenced entities light.hue_play_servieskast_links, light.hue_play_servieskast_rechts, light.hue_play_tv_links, light.hue_play_tv_midden, light.hue_play_tv_rechts or it is/they are currently not available
2023-04-15 17:07:18.570 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Unable to find referenced entities light.hue_play_servieskast_links, light.hue_play_servieskast_rechts, light.hue_play_tv_links, light.hue_play_tv_midden, light.hue_play_tv_rechts or it is/they are currently not available

Blacky · April 15, 2023, 3:28pm

I think it may have to do with the lights.

Blacky · April 15, 2023, 3:41pm

EDIT: When did you do the update… try updating again.

geox19 · April 15, 2023, 3:43pm

I’m getting errors like this I upgraded just few days ago from 1.29 I’m going to delete all my automations and install fresh with the updated blueprint

Blacky · April 15, 2023, 4:07pm

@barcomoon @geox19

I think I have found it. I will try and fix this in the next update. I believe the logs are only stored for 10 days and then cleared so it shouldn’t just keep building up you data base.

Edit: Fixed, will be in the next release.

geox19 · April 15, 2023, 4:24pm

Thanks Blacky, No worries I just need to keep my face out of the logs anyways. The great thing is, if you start fresh it’s really easy and fast to point and click your way to success with your blueprints.

PuceZhodosha · April 17, 2023, 7:45am

HI Blacky, nice BP thanks a lot.

Is there a possibility to add more bypass switches?

    include_bypass: bypass_enabled_stop
    motion_bypass: sensor.hue_wall_switch_module_1_battery_2

I have in the one room two different HUE wall switch modules which should be used to bypass this automation…

Blacky · April 17, 2023, 9:31am

@PuceZhodosha

Hi Puce, firstly welcome to the community

Currently you can only select one by-pass but that doesn’t mean you cant have more than 1. In a new feature that is on the road map, that I am sure everyone will love, may require to have a selection to add more than 1 by-pass. But for now it is best to set up a group helper as you can have it now.

To do this it is similar to one of our FAQ but you would select “sensor” rather than “Binary sensor group” and add that to your by-pass. To see the FAQ on how to do this click here.

Hope this helps.

Blacky

fleming164 · April 19, 2023, 8:44am

Loving the blueprint, thank you!

The only issue I’m trying to get around is the transition to night lights…

I’d like to stop that transition from happening while motion is detected. I.e. if we’re in the kitchen later than usual I don’t want to be plunged into a dim room, I’d rather it just keep the current scene until everybody leaves the room and no motion is detected. Then next time activate the night lights.

beel · April 19, 2023, 11:56am

Hi, Great blueprint however I’m having a couple of issues if you could help at all please?

I’ve set this up for my Hallway lights and Kitchen LED’s to activate based on motion. However the hallway lights seem to Flash (sometimes once, othertimes twice) when motion is detected and then reduce to 40% brightness even though I’ve set it to 100%. My Kitchen LED’s turn on fine, however they only activate at 40% brightness instead of 100%.

I’ve tried with Brightness On/Off and Transition On/Off.

Lights:

Hallway = 2 x Hue white lamp (LWA001)
LED = 1 x 10m Govee H615B

YAML:

alias: "Hallway: Motion-Activated Lights"
description: ""
use_blueprint:
  path: Blackshome/sensor-light.yaml
  input:
    motion_trigger:
      - binary_sensor.hue_motion_sensor_2_motion
    light_switch:
      area_id:
        - hallway
        - kitchen
    include_light_control:
      - use_brightness
      - use_transition
    ambient_light_sensor: sensor.hue_motion_sensor_2_illuminance
    ambient_light_options: ambient_light_option_enabled
    ambient_light_value: 50
    include_ambient: ambient_disabled
    time_delay: 1
    light_transition_on: 0.5
    light_transition_off: 10