Turn on lights when I open the front door

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Hi everyone.

I am trying to automate my hallway lights when I come home.

I have a HUE motion sensor outside the door, and on the door I have a Aqara contact sensor.

What I am trying to achieve is to turn on the lights when I come home, that is, HUE motion sensor detects the motion outside the door and when the Aqara contact sensor on the door state changes to open the lights turn on. I don’t want the hallway lights to turn on when I open the door and I am about to leave, so, the order of state changes matters. First motion/occupancy detected, then binary sensor on the door changes to open, only then will the light turn on.

Any idea how to achieve this with a automation ?

Thanks.

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alias: Entrance Light
description: ''
mode: single
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.entrance_door
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.sonoff_motion_sensor
    state: 'on'
action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    data: {}
    entity_id: light.entrance
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Perfect.

That state from, to was the missing piece. Thanks buddy.

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I’m not sure that really was the missing piece.

A binary sensor, during normal operation, only ever has two states - on and off. so the only state it can usually come from is off. The only other state it could have if something has failed is ‘unavailable’.

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Instead of using the Trigger type State from - to I was using Trigger type Device and the trigger was contact is open. I wasn’t aware of the State trigger :upside_down_face:

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While I don’t use the UI editor and therefore don’t use the device triggers I would assume that “contact open” from a device is functionally equivalent to “to on” from a state trigger.

But if it’s working then that’s all that really matters.