Setting up Automation

Configuration
1

I was trying to get a simple automation set up using the ‘Your first automation’ guide, which is more or less what I want to to - set up an automation that turns on a switch a bit before sunset and then off a bit after sunrise.

I have ‘automation: !include automation.yaml’ in the bottom of my configuration file, and in that ‘automation.yaml’ file, I have:

#################################################################
## Automations
#################################################################
  - alias: Turn on driveway lights when sun sets
    trigger:
      platform: sun
      event: sunset
      offset: "-00:20:00"
    action:
      service: switch.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.leviton_unknown_type1c02_id0334_switch_4
  - alias: Turn off driveway lights when sun rises
    trigger:
      platform: sun
      event: sunrise
      offset: "00:20:00"
    action:
      service: switch.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.leviton_unknown_type1c02_id0334_switch_4

The errors I’m getting under the ‘About’ menu under ‘Developer Tools’ are:

16-09-05 
14:32:02 homeassistant.bootstrap: Error during setup of component 
automation
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/bootstrap.py",
 line 157, in _setup_component
    result = component.setup(hass, config)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/automation/__init__.py",
 line 105, in setup
    success = (_setup_automation(hass, config_block, name, config) or
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/automation/__init__.py",
 line 116, in _setup_automation
    action = _process_if(hass, config, config_block, action)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/automation/__init__.py",
 line 173, in _process_if
    checks.append(condition.from_config(if_config))
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/condition.py",
 line 37, in from_config
    return factory(config, config_validation)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/condition.py",
 line 155, in state_from_config
    config = cv.STATE_CONDITION_SCHEMA(config)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/voluptuous/validators.py",
 line 264, in __call__
    raise e if self.msg is None else AllInvalid(self.msg)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/voluptuous/validators.py",
 line 262, in __call__
    v = schema(v)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py",
 line 192, in __call__
    return self._compiled([], data)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py",
 line 625, in validate_callable
    return schema(data)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py",
 line 192, in __call__
    return self._compiled([], data)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py",
 line 486, in validate_dict
    return base_validate(path, iteritems(data), out)
  File 
"/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py",
 line 324, in validate_mapping
    raise er.MultipleInvalid(errors)
voluptuous.error.MultipleInvalid: required key not provided @ 
data['state']

Does anyone have any thoughts?

2

Try not indenting your aliases in your automation.yaml

3

Very strange… Despite the errors in the log, the automation appears to be working - the lights came on when they should have, and we’ll see if they shut off when they should (I haven’t changed anything with it yet)…

4

So after letting things go this AM , despite the errors that appeared after trying to set up automation, the automation worked as intended - the lights turned on before sunset and turned off after sunrise. So I changed it to remove the indents, and so far it still seems to be working as intended… If we assume that automation is working as intended, any ideas why I am getting these errors only after setting up automation?