I’m running Home Assistant for 2 months now and started to make automations. One of the things I would like to accomplish is that the lights turn on in the night when Roomba starts and that they turn off the moment it is done or throws an error. Turning on is not a problem, as an automation starts at 01:00 AM which turns on the light and starts the Roomba. I have tried to turn off the lights by making an automation that checks the status of the Roomba, but I can’t find all the available statuses for that device anywhere. I have tried more then 10 different types of status changes (like: from ‘Cleaning’ to ‘Docked’ or ‘Cleaning’ to ‘Charging’) but none of them make the trigger work. Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong and on what status change I should put a trigger on?
@Burningstone mentioned the develop/states tool - that is one of my go-to sources. One great part of it that I missed for a couple years is the filter at the top of the list. That really helps getting to the component you are looking for instead of scrolling for what seems like forever through the list.
Find the Roomba in the list. It might tell you the available states. If not, then just run it through the states you are after (docked, cleaning, charging) and see what state is reported in the developer/states tool. I don’t know how many times I’ve done that with TVs, sensors, google calendar events, etc.
But, as @Burningstone mentioned, it’s likely a lower case thing…
Another great developer tool is the developer/template tool (to the right of the states tool). Maybe you’re not using them now, but I bet you will down the road aways
Wow, I didn’t expect all these helpful replies in such a short time. Thank you very much for the help guys, awesome! It indeed was a lower case thing.
Thanks for telling me about the States tool, that’s very handy (not only for this automation).
@Canedje I have the Roomba S9+. In most cases when it’s dark, it can’t navigate very well and throws an error quite often. That’s why I would like to turn on the light:-)
Problem solved, thanks again for the great help! I really appreciate that.
Reviving an old thread, hope people are watching. This is exactly what I am hoping to do. But with a further twist. Turn on lights in a specific room when Roomba vacuums it then turn off after. I am getting i8+ which has mapping and room namimg like OP.
Can HA tell Roomba to vacuum the living room only? Or does it send room states to HA?
The integration does not list what area it’s in, only what area’s it’s cleaned. So it’s not possible to turn on lights as it moves throughout a full cleaning process, however you could turn all lights on and them turn them off as it moves through the house.
FYI, you can search the forums for anything. I did not know how to clean specific rooms so I simply searched for “Roomba clean specific rooms” and the first choice was this post with a step by step guide on how to do it.
Thank you! I googled a bunch of things but didn’t search within the forums. Sorry, And… Thank you for the link, it’s all good news and appreciate your reply. Cheers
Nothing to be sorry about, you’re new. Wasn’t sure if you tried the forum search yet. It’s pretty good, much better than the home-assistant.io’s search function.
