Series of events for going to bed

Configuration
1

Hi,

I really would like to have an activate- button on my hass dashboard that triggers a series of automations. i.e. when i go to bed:

  • turn off all lights in the living room
  • Close the gate, when it’s open
  • send a message when the garagedoor is open
  • etc…

How do i create a button on my dashboard and use the button-press as trigger for the automations?
With a scene? or a input_boolean? It both doesn’t exactly what i want.

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I don’t know if “dashboard” is different somehow than the “regular frontend”, but it sounds like you want to write a script, and then you can put that script on your dashboard. It will have a button to press to run the script (or a toggle, if the script contains any delays or waits.) E.g., here’s what a couple of scripts look like in my frontend:

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3

Thanks @pnbruckner, Dashboard is indeed the regular frontend. I’m going to give te script a try. I’ll post my findings.

4

This is the script i configured:

night_routine:
  alias: Nachtmodus
  sequence:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.schuurdeur
    state: on
  - service: notify.pushbullet_rudolf
    data:
      title: Schuurdeur
      message: De schuurdeur staat nog open

But it gives me the error:

Invalid config for [script]: [condition] is an invalid option for [script]. Check: script->script->night_routine->sequence->0->condition. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 131). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/script/

any suggestion?

5

What is the context of that snippet of YAML? I.e., is it directly in configuration.yaml, or in a separate scripts.yaml file, etc.? The reason I ask is, this is a bit suspicious: script->script->night_routine.... Seems to imply this structure:

script:
  script:
    night_routine:
      ...

which wouldn’t be right. Otherwise, a condition step is perfectly legal in a script sequence.

6

Yeah that was also my first idea. I have a separate scipts.yaml, but doesn’t have a double script tag:

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Wow, I’m stumped. That looks perfectly fine. Although I now use a more complex structure of files, I went back and looked at my first versions, and I had it exactly like you do. Hmm.

The only slight difference I see is that I tend to indent list items, even though I know it’s not supposed to matter. I.e., I do this:

name_of_script:
  alias: Alias for script
  sequence:
    - condition: ...

Maybe someone else will see something we’re missing.

8

Solved it!

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/condition-inside-of-a-script-problem/23197

It was about the quotes around the state!

@pnbruckner Thanks for your help!

9

D’oh! I should have noticed that. Unfortunately, that error message, although it seemed to point in the right direction, was still kind of misleading. I’m glad you’ve solved it.