Trigger automation when light helper entity turns on

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What I try to achieve? Turn light temperature based on daytime when any light turns on.

What I have set up: All bulbs in a room are grouped within a helper group.

I can trigger such an automation when I define the individual bulbs under “device” but I do not want to add all individual and then set the decisions for all of them. Rather I would simply have the trigger when the group entity is turned on. This is not an option - I can only track state changes in e.g. brightness (however this would also trigger when dimming).

KR

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Look at the State trigger. That should allow you to choose the group as the entity, and the group should go to on whenever any light is on.

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(note to devs: yet another example of the UI design “hiding” the very useful State trigger in preference to the much more troublesome device trigger)

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Okay, nvm. For whatever reason I could not see the attributes for the group in the beginning. They show up. Definitely a user problem :slight_smile: