I am giving HA a test run to replace another GUI-driven solution that was abandoned by the providing company without warning. I’m trying to test key functionality quickly while I also have to learn a new, and more technically demanding, platform. I have a number of Insteon switches that control va…

With any automation in HA there are many ways it can be accomplished, and the “best” way is dependent upon the preferences and knowledge level of the person implementing it. To your question of whether it is possible, of course it is possible. You could do this with scenes, or input helpers, or tem…

Most of what you want to do can be done using scenes. To access scenes go to Settings > Automations & Scenes > Scenes tab > Click add scene From here all you need to do is put your devices in their desired state, add them to the scene list, give your scene a name, and click save. Now anytime you …

Thanks, mekaneck! I don’t think I would have realized logic trees like this could be built in the GUI portion without a lot of trial and error time I don’t have. I have set up a test environment with one motion and a couple light modules to verify the basic functionality works. I will see if it w…

The automation doesn’t seem to be working. I’ve been trying to troubleshoot and it appears that having time based triggers/chooses don’t work, and somehow might be causing others (eg, motion) to not work. Here’s the YAML (I have not edited anything here, only in visual editor). Note, the extra tr…

You’ll need to format your code properly otherwise I can’t really help. Also check out the documentation for troubleshooting automations . If the automation is triggering but not running the actions that you think it should run, you can look at the trace to see where things are going wrong. If you c…

Ok, I’ve gotten more up to speed on automations and through trial and error have gotten everything working except for the sunset/sunrise. How do I use a sunset/sunrise based trigger in conjunction with a choose tree condition? If I set a trigger of when sun sets offset by -00:15:00 and a Choose wi…

If your trigger is when something happens, the condition needs to be when it is after that thing happening. Also be aware you can add an id to each trigger, and you can create a condition for when the automation was triggered by that id

I’ve gotten it all working except I’m having a brain fart and can’t figure out getting it to turn off around sunrise. Can you confirm or explain exactly how the offset part of sunrise/sunset works? For simplicity, say the sun rises at 8:00 AM. If the TRIGGER is when sun rises offset by -00:01:00…

Standard motion light with delay but with return to previous dim level

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mekaneck (Rick) October 28, 2024, 1:14am 6

I don’t use Insteon, but I found a relevant post from Tom Harris, the maintainer of the Insteon integration. It appears that the transition is a feature that is not yet supported.