Time value for numeric state in an automation

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Hi to all,

I’m trying to set an automation.
The action should be triggered by a sensor-state, in this case it’s a remaining time. The output-style is hh:mm.
If the time is below a value, in my case it should be 25 minutes, I want to get the action started.
Here starts my problem.

I tried to configure the automation based on a numeric state platform.
When I want to enter the below-value in style of hh:mm I get an error message (Message malformed: Entity ID is an invalid entity ID for dictionary value @ data[‘entity_id’]).

What else can I do to get this automation running?

I’m thankful for every help!

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Take a look at this Unable to create new automations in editor · Issue #681 · home-assistant/frontend · GitHub. Make sure you aren’t adding an empty trigger.

If your data really is in the hh:mm format (you can check by looking up your sensor’s state in Developer Tools), you’ll probably need to use the value_template Automation Trigger - Home Assistant to convert it to an integer.

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Numerical triggers require a number. Time is not a number. Seconds is a number, minutes is a number, hours is a number. Combined, it’s not a number, its a time. So it will never work with a numerical trigger.

There are a number of ways to solve this. If you want to use a numerical trigger, then you need to take the sensor that is HH:MM and convert it to hours or minutes in a template sensor. In your case, you’d want it in minutes so you can specify 25 in the numerical state trigger.

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I believe you can use the numeric state trigger if you extract the number with value_template.
For me, this seems to work just fine:

platform: numeric_state
entity_id: input_text.test
value_template: '{{ state.state.split('':'')[1] }}'
above: '20'

Edit: this of course ignores the hours part of the string, I just wanted to demonstrate that you don’t need a template sensor. See petro’s post below.

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What happens when you’re at an hour and 1 minute? You didn’t include hours so it will see it as 1 minute. I.E. it needs to be converted from HH:MM to M.

value_template: >
  {% set h, m = state.state.split(':') | map('int') %}
  {{ h * 60 + m }}
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Thanks so far!

Thats what the automation do look like now:



alias: TEST mit value_template
description: ''
mode: single
trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.waschmaschine_remaining_time
    value_template: >
      {% set h, m = sstate.state.split(':') | map(int) %}
      {{ h * 60 + m }}
    below: '25'
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_iphone_von_paul
    data:
      message: TEST

But there’s still no trigger action.
What could I’ve done wrong?

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It will only trigger if the value moves from above 25 to below 25. It will not trigger if it moves from below 25 to below 25.

Also, you have a typo. 2 ss’s on state.state

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Oppsi.
Even without the typo there’s still no action.

I’ve tested this while the device was running and the remaining time was counting down from above 25 to below 25.

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Can you post the state of the sensor.waschmaschine_remaining_time in the developer tools / states page?

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Needs to be map('int') with quotes, as in @petro’s initial response.

alias: TEST mit value_template
id: e5805a2c-4603-4dbe-b683-9973d03f4387

trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.waschmaschine_remaining_time
    value_template: >
      {% set h, m = state.state.split(':') | map('int') %}
      {{ h * 60 + m }}
    below: 25

action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_iphone_von_paul
    data:
      message: TEST

I’ve included an id to allow you to inspect it with the automation tracer / debugger.

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It’s ’ 00:00 ’ at the moment.

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Ah thanks @Troon! It’s working now.
Thats the final solution!
Even thanks to @petro as well for the main work!

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You should mark @petro’s as the solution, really, as his code was right :+1:

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Doesn’t matter to me, not chasing solutions. Thanks though.

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