I had the same problem as someone above… for whatever reason, automations won’t span past midnite. I ended up making on for before 23:59 and then another starting after 00:01. I read somewhere else that HA won’t run through the midnight hour, on time alone.
I don’t know if you’d be interested in expanding the blueprint, but what about adding in an option for starting before sunrise and after sunset?
Thanks!
I’m a bit confused. Can someone tell me how I can set the lights to auto turn off after 10 seconds? Motion sensor will trigger it on again, but the automation should always try to turn off light when no motion is detected.
Thanks
Same issue here, cant get past midnight with this blueprint. ie on from 07:00 till 01:00 (the next day),
I think it has nothing to do with HA, the below automation part works flawlessly:
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: time
after: 07:30:00
before: 02:30:00
action:
- type: turn_on
must be some compare issues in the blueprint.
Regards Frank.
Ok, for the middle night time, after sunset and before sunrise, I did the timer thing. I think it was bearded tinkerer, but here’s something that works for me. The motion sensor, being activated while the timer is running, resets the timer, and the timer will continue as long as there is no more motion, and finish off (turn light off) after the required time. Only thing here that doesn’t play nice, if 2 timers are running, both fire off the automations, even if the longer scheduled timer hasn’t finished. Haven’t looked into that yet. But here’s one 
After light is triggered on -
alias: Front Door Lamps timer starts after turning on
description: Front Door Lamps timer starts after turning on
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: switch.fluorescent_light_appliance_module
to: 'on'
condition: []
action:
- service: timer.start
data:
duration: '0'
target:
entity_id: timer.front_door_open
mode: single
And then, to turn off after timer is done -
alias: New Door lamps off after 4 minute timer
description: New Door lamps off after 4 minute timer
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: timer.finished
id: timer.front_door_open
condition: []
action:
- type: turn_off
device_id: 394d5d8b79e6712205801db1626790c5
entity_id: switch.fluorescent_light_appliance_module
domain: switch
mode: single
and in configuration.yaml, must set a timer duration -
timer:
front_door_open:
duration: 00:04:00
name: Front Door Timer 4mins
icon: mdi:door-open
This works for me, at least to turn off the light after the light is triggered on.
I just realized that this is not what we were originally talking about, so here’s the motion timer code -
This turns the lights on, at the window of time, it works prior to and then after midnight -
Timers for kitchen light-
alias: Kitchen Light timer starts
description: Kitchen Light timer starts
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.front_room_motion_sensor
to: 'on'
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.kitchen_motion_zone
to: 'on'
condition:
- condition: or
conditions:
- condition: time
after: '21:00'
- condition: sun
before: sunrise
action:
- service: timer.start
data: {}
target:
entity_id: timer.kitchen_light_timer
- type: turn_on
device_id: 4856f51b9d4f30ebc0d25c555496a473
entity_id: switch.kitchen_light
domain: switch
mode: single
max: 10
################################################
alias: Kitchen timer ends-light off 7 mins
description: Kitchen timer ends-light off 7 mins
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: timer.finished
id: timer.kitchen_light_timer
event_data: {}
condition: []
action:
- type: turn_off
device_id: 4856f51b9d4f30ebc0d25c555496a473
entity_id: switch.kitchen_light
domain: switch
mode: singleI am using this blueprint for an automation to turn a (Lutron Caseta) switch on whenever motion is detected (via a Philips Hue Motion Sensor) and while turning on works, the “(OPTIONAL) Turn off wait time (minutes)” appears to have no effect at all.
Basically I set its value for my automation to 5 and yet, after a few seconds the light is turned off again by the automation. There is no concurrent automation using the motion sensor and I am a bit confused what I might be doing wrong here?
The settings look like this & any hints / suggestions are highly appreciated!
You need to create an input_number entity with the value of your timeout for it to work.
nice blueprint
Since a few people have complained about issues with the blueprint not triggering when time window spans midnight, I tried to rewrite the time condition to see if this helps.
I myself could never reproduce this however with the old version of the blueprint, so I’m not sure if this new version makes any difference.
Please test it out if you like.
Thank you, will do,
Maybe it has to do with 12 or 24 hour settings?
I my self use the 24h mode.
Regards Frank
Thanks for this, it’s been running quite nicely except the same time issues people had.
I anyhow decided to run my hours by modes Day/Evening/Night toggled by a set time or manually (typically by the gf), instead of Time Start and End.
So I modified a copy of your code with an extra optional “Day / Evening / Night” mode requring it’s state to be on to run.
#happyuser
Hai freakshock,
I can confirm that the midnight spanning is now working.
Great Job, Thank you…!!
Regards
Frank
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Hi, Frank,
Could you please add a brightness slider for those who have dimmer switches?
Thank you!
I added this line manually to the bluebrint, but thats the best I could do
action:
- service: homeassistant.turn_on
data:
brightness_pct: 10
entity_id: !input 'target_entity'
- condition: template
Hey all sorry I tried searching the thread, I would like to have one motion sensor turn on multiple lights and then turn them off, sometimes one light may be on out of the group and I’d like the rest to turn on so I’m not sure if a group would work in this case. Help is appreciated!
I’m not sure I understand your requirements.
A light group forwards all commands to all lights, so if you turn the group on, all lights in that group will turn on. Is that not what you want?
Yes my apologies, I overcomplicated this in my mind, group on, group off!
still can’t get the ‘(OPTIONAL) Turn off wait time (minutes)’ to work. if i enter a time in there manually it ignores it, but it won’t let me choose a ‘time entity’ like it expects there to be (despite there being some time entities on the system)
any ideas?
Hi thefunkygibbon…
The optional needs a helper not a fixed value.
the documentation says:
Prerequisites
Some of the (optional) input values in this blueprint use helper entities you have to create yourself, to be able to dynamically set limits. It is not possible to set hard-coded limits for these inputs.
So go to settings->helpers create a time based helper with a minimum and maximum value, give it a useful name and use this name in the optional field(s). Do so with the number value for cut of illumination.
Regards Frank
Is there an easy way to use this automation to turn off lights automatically after a period of time even if they weren’t started with motion?
So:
- Motion Activated Light or Manually turn on lights
- Automatic Turn off after 90s regardless
I can’t seem to get it to work, but maybe it can’t with this?
so I might not fully understand helpers. but i’ve tried a few things and am getting nowhere.
I’ve created a ‘timer’ helper that is defined as 10 seconds" and called it lighthelper1
and i also created a time/date helper which i defined as just ‘time’ and also in the settings of it, defined it as 00:00:10. i called this lighthelper2
In the automation which uses this blueprint, in the (OPTIONAL) Turn off wait time (minutes) says i have no matching entities. but on the two options above it (‘only run before/after times’) it allows me to choose lighthelper2.
So as far as i can make out. the time/date helper defines an actual time. but based on this, the ‘timer’ helper should be effectively a countdown entity and makes sense that i should use that helper in this blueprint for the ‘turn off wait time’
am i doing it wrong still? i don’t see any ‘time based helper with a minimum and maximum value’ except in the ‘counter’ helper, and that also doesn’t show up as a option in that part of the automation/blueprint.
:edit: ok i’ve now added a test helper for every type of helper and it seems to show up if i have a ‘number’ helper. although i’m not entirely sure of how that works with a ‘minimum’ and ‘maximum’ !? surely i want it to turn off after 1 minute of no movement from the sensor. what would happen if i put 2 as minimum and 5 as max?