Trouble making an automation to close my covers with LUX

Configuration
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Light’s working now! Thank you very much!!
What was I doing wrong?..

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If the notification appeared then it confirms a Numeric State Trigger is able to detect when the sensor’s value decreases below 1.6.

Second experiment

  • Use the same form in Developer Tools > States to set the sensor’s value to 35 or any value above 1.6. It may already be above 1.6 if the physical sensor’s integration has already updated the value.

  • Cover the physical sensor tightly so that no light falls on it.

  • Go to Developer Tools > States and observe the value of sensor.multisensor_brightness. Wait for it to report a value below 1.6. When it does (and it should if its integration is working properly) it should trigger the Test 1 automation.

If this works then all is well. If it fails then there may be a problem with the sensor’s integration.

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I have already fix the lights. I cover the sensor and the lights turned ON.
I did mark your previous post as the solution. Thank you very much!
What was I doing wrong?..

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I’m not sure! :thinking: :man_shrugging: In your first post you said you covered the sensor for 5 minutes yet it failed to trigger the automation. You just repeated the same procedure, but with the trigger’s for set to a much shorter time, and it worked. Then you reported the original automation now also works. It’s unclear why the “cover the sensor” test now triggers the automation but didn’t originally.