Trigger automation from other automation while checking conditions

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Hi,

Is there a way to trigger automations from other automations while checking/validating the conditions of the 2nd automation ?

This is done a lot in e.g. HomeSeer to get a grip in the order in which automations are executed. But it also helps in cleaning up the automations if you have multiple triggers with different conditions.

Best regards,
Deva

2

Rather than call ing the automation.trigger service which will disregard the trigger and conditions in the 2nd automation you could set an input boolean using the input_boolean.turn_on service. Add a state trigger for this input boolean in the second automation.

Other options I can think of are adding an mqtt trigger to the second automation. Or calling a script rather than the second automation (you can use conditions in scripts).

3

Yeah, that’s rather a suboptimal solution that i already had in mind :frowning:

4

Put the conditions for the second automation in the action block instead of the condition block.

trigger:
  - SOME TRIGGER 
condition:
  condition: state 
  entity_id: sensor.foo
  state: 'bar' 
action:
  - SOME ACTION

Becomes

trigger:
  - SOME TRIGGER 
action:
  - condition: state 
    entity_id: sensor.foo
    state: 'bar' 
  - SOME ACTION

Of course this will mean that you can’t use automation.trigger to fire the actions in spite of the conditions any more.

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5

But that does not work if i want to do multiple things based on different conditions …

6

Neither does a condition block.

You need to look at service_template and data_template.