Switch Timer Automation

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Newbie here so if this has been answered and I can’t find it in the forum, please forgive me.

I am setting up my switches to have automated time on and off each day. The problem is that I can’t pick which switch I want to set up with a specific time. They just all turn off an on at the exact same time. I tried adding an entity line to the Action in the automations.yaml file, but then nothing happens at all.

Thanks is advance.

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Please post the (correctly formatted) automation you are attempting to use or it is impossible to help.

Have a read of point 11 here on formatting: How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question

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  • id: ‘1567614588519’
    alias: Family Room Hutch - Timer On
    trigger:
    • at: ‘17:00:00’
      platform: time
      condition: []
      action:
    • alias: ‘’
      data: {}
      service: switch.turn_on
  • id: ‘1567616235289’
    alias: Family Room Hutch - Timer Off
    trigger:
    • at: 01:00:00
      platform: time
      condition: []
      action:
    • service: switch.turn_off
  • id: ‘1567737193576’
    alias: Front Door Hutch - Turn On
    trigger:
    • at: ‘23:06:00’
      platform: time
      condition:
    • condition: state
      entity_id: switch.front_door_hutch
      state: ‘off’
      action:
    • alias: ‘’
      data: {}
      service: switch.turn_on
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Please edit your post and correctly format your pasted code as requested.

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This is what automatons creates in my automation.yaml file. I created an image since copy and paste didn’t work right. Thanks,

automation
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Please read point 11 here on formatting: How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question and edit your post accordingly.

I’m not doing this to be annoying. A correctly formatted post helps us help you.

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I figured it out. Thanks for being willing to help. In the automations service data I had to add

{ "entity_id": [ "switch.front_door_hutch" ] }

When I originally entered it I forgot the [ ] brackets.