Test for how a device was activated and choose action based on that

[georgb5]

Hi there,

Trying to do something seemingly simple but can’t figure it out.

I have a schedule during which the bathroom lights will be turned on and off based on a motion sensor, this is what that looks like

Works great, easy enough.

Now I wish to expand this so that if the light is turned on via the app or the physical switch… the automation should not turn it off or on
This is how these look like

How on earth can I test for this and put it into the automation.

Read about 'context" but can’t seem to find that

Here is what I have so far.

Thank you

[tom_l]

How to use context

By checking three conditions you can tell if it was an automation, a physical device or a person performing an action in a dashboard that changed an entity. This can be useful if you need to know if a person or an automation did something, e.g. were the lights turned on automatically or by a person operating a physical switch or dashboard control? The three context ids and how they relate to the three causes are: [9f58d4c26ecbf53ddbb35cca88956ede8502da41] User mbuscher provided this automatio…

[georgb5]

I read that but am totally lost as to where to put this in.

Could you share where this would go please?

Is it under automation, then the automation and then yaml?

[tom_l]

Yep, automation.

[georgb5]

tinker tinker… 50% working.

I now have it so far that it disables the automation if the light is activated by the app or the physical device but I can’t get it enabled again if the light gets switched off.

Here is what I have, any suggestions?

alias: En - Disable Bath-Lights
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - light.bath_light
    to: "on"
    id: Bath-on
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - light.bath_light
    to: "off"
    id: Bath-off
conditions: []
actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - Bath-on
          - condition: template
            value_template: >-
              {{trigger.to_state.context.id != none and
              trigger.to_state.context.parent_id == none and
              trigger.to_state.context.user_id != none}}
            alias: State changed HA interface on
        sequence:
          - action: automation.turn_off
            metadata: {}
            data:
              stop_actions: true
            target:
              entity_id: automation.bath_lights
        alias: Bath-Lights
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - Bath-on
          - condition: template
            value_template: >-
              {{trigger.to_state.context.id != none and
              trigger.to_state.context.parent_id == none and
              trigger.to_state.context.user_id == none}}
            alias: State changed manually on
        sequence:
          - action: automation.turn_off
            metadata: {}
            data:
              stop_actions: true
            target:
              entity_id: automation.bath_lights
        alias: Bath-Lights
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - Bath-off
          - condition: template
            value_template: >-
              {{trigger.to_state.context.id != none and
              trigger.to_state.context.parent_id == none and
              trigger.to_state.context.user_id != none}}
            alias: State changed HA interface off
        sequence:
          - action: automation.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data:
              stop_actions: true
            target:
              entity_id: automation.bath_lights
        alias: Bath-Lights
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - Bath-off
          - condition: template
            value_template: >-
              {{trigger.to_state.context.id != none and
              trigger.to_state.context.parent_id == none and
              trigger.to_state.context.user_id == none}}
            alias: State changed manually off
        sequence:
          - action: automation.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data:
              stop_actions: true
            target:
              entity_id: automation.bath_lights
        alias: Bath-Lights
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most appreciated