This went down well on christmas day and my son was beaming all day

I made this automation for christmas day and it went better than expected my son was super happy and could not help telling all family members what he heard in the morning (he is 6)

alias: Christmas day joy
description: ''
trigger:
  - type: opened
    platform: device
    device_id: 9f9610175b5c1ae61658ad8ace3d5e5a   
    entity_id: binary_sensor.0x00158d0004a02c27_contact    <---- his bedroom door sensor
    domain: binary_sensor
condition:
  - condition: time
    after: '06:00:00'
    before: '07:00:00'
action:
  - scene: scene.studio_xmas    <--- scene i created to switch all lights to green and red
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 3
      milliseconds: 0
  - service: media_player.volume_set
    data:
      volume_level: 0.69
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.echo_1
  - service: notify.alexa_media_echo_1
    data:
      message: Quick. -  Santa. -- go... A. J. -  is.  -  awake
      data:
        type: tts
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data:
      media_content_id: christmas_05
      media_content_type: sound
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.echo_1
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 3
      milliseconds: 0
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data:
      media_content_id: christmas_05
      media_content_type: sound
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.echo_1
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 15
      milliseconds: 0
  - service: media_player.volume_set
    data:
      volume_level: 0.2
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.echo_1
mode: single

Basically he woke up, opened his door and all the lights turned on in the house with red and green colors, alexa turned her self up and said the message then there was a sleigh bell sound repeated twice. and then turned down, he could not wait to tell me about it when he woke me up

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I think that these are the automations that really make someone’s life a little bit better :grin:

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Sounds quite fun! Congratulations!

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