This is a simple blueprint for flashing light’s via on/off and delay. Activated and deactived via input_boolean and restore previous light state.
Link to Blueprint: https://github.com/myGithub-Markus/home-assistant_blueprints/blob/main/flashing_lights.yaml
New features added:
- optional light scene
- individual activated sensor and sensor states
- activated timeout
blueprint:
name: flashing lights
description: >
Flashing lights via on off and delay and finally restore the previous light states.
domain: automation
input:
activated:
name: Sensor
description: "Sensor to activate or deactivate flashing lights."
selector:
entity:
activated_states:
name: States to match with activated sensor (optional)
description: "A comma separated list of activated states."
default: "on"
activated_timeout:
name: (OPTIONAL) activated timeout
description: "Max time to leave flashing light during activated sensor state is true. '0' means no timeout is defined."
default: 0
selector:
number:
min: 1
max: 3600
unit_of_measurement: seconds
light_target:
name: Light
description: "To using lights"
selector:
target:
entity:
domain: light
scene_target:
name: Scene
default: scene.none
description: "To using scene"
selector:
entity:
domain: scene
delay:
name: (OPTIONAL) Delay
description: "Delay flashing lights"
default: 1000
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 20000
unit_of_measurement: milliseconds
mode: single
max_exceeded: silent
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: !input activated
variables:
activated: !input activated
activated_states_str: !input activated_states
activated_states: "{{ activated_states_str.split(',') | map('trim') | list }}"
activated_timeout: !input activated_timeout
delay: !input delay
scene_target: !input scene_target
condition: []
action:
- service: scene.create
data:
scene_id: all_lights_snapshot
snapshot_entities: >
{{ states.light | map(attribute='entity_id') | join(',') }}
- choose:
- conditions:
- "{{ scene_target == 'scene.none' }}"
sequence:
- service: light.turn_off
target: !input light_target
- repeat:
while:
- condition: template
value_template: >
{% set time_now = as_timestamp(now()) %}
{% set activated_last_changed = float(states[activated].last_changed.timestamp(),0) %}
{% set is_timed_out = false %}
{% if activated_timeout > 0 %}
{% set is_timed_out = (time_now - activated_last_changed) > activated_timeout %}
{% endif %}
{% set activated_state = 'unknown' %}
{% if activated is defined %}
{% set activated_state = states(activated) %}
{% endif %}
{{ activated_state in activated_states and not is_timed_out }}
sequence:
- delay:
milliseconds: >
{{ delay }}
- service: light.toggle
target: !input light_target
- service: scene.turn_on
data:
entity_id: scene.all_lights_snapshot
- conditions:
- "{{ scene_target != 'scene.none' }}"
sequence:
- repeat:
while:
- condition: template
value_template: >
{% set time_now = as_timestamp(now()) %}
{% set activated_last_changed = float(states[activated].last_changed.timestamp(),0) %}
{% set is_timed_out = false %}
{% if activated_timeout > 0 %}
{% set is_timed_out = (time_now - activated_last_changed) > activated_timeout %}
{% endif %}
{% set activated_state = 'unknown' %}
{% if activated is defined %}
{% set activated_state = states(activated) %}
{% endif %}
{{ activated_state in activated_states and not is_timed_out }}
sequence:
- service: scene.turn_on
entity_id: !input scene_target
- delay:
milliseconds: >
{{ delay }}
- service: light.turn_off
target: !input light_target
- delay:
milliseconds: >
{{ delay }}
- service: scene.turn_on
data:
entity_id: scene.all_lights_snapshot
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- is this a possible feature that can be edited?