Hello,
Would appreciate advice in which direction to go in…
I have recently purchased a Switchbot bot for a NAS which does not have Wake on LAN capabilities.
It works as expected but I am hoping to make it more state aware than just being a dumb device.
I have setup a PING sensor for my NAS and now would like to use it to report the current state of my Switchbot bot.
Is such a thing possible? Can you force an entities ‘state’ using a ping sensor?
My sensor configuration is:
binary_sensor:
- platform: ping
name: nas
host: 192.168.111.101
scan_interval: 30
My customize.yaml is:
switch.nas:
assumed_state: false
icon: mdi:nas
If it is not possible to set the state of an entity/switch, can I use an automation or script which uses conditions to either turn on or off?
For example; I have tried this automation:
id: '1647631432696'
alias: Turn on NAS
description: ''
trigger: []
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.nas
state: 'off'
action:
- type: toggle
device_id: 7f961fc842737da900c446e0725c2655
entity_id: switch.nas
domain: switch
mode: single
But it does not work (it activates the switchbot regardless). I want it to toggle the switchbot if the NAS is off (ping failed) and I’ll create a second automation to turn it off if the NAS is on. I tried a script but couldn’t get that working either.
I need it to work this way as the Switchbot activates regardless of ‘Alexa, turn off/on NAS’. I do not always know the state of my NAS and so sometimes it powers down when I say ‘Alexa, turn on NAS’.
I’ll setup routines within Alexa to ensure the right automation is fired upon either phrase.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Many thanks.