Turning an input boolean on a few minutes after we arrive home

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Hey team! We have a 9 month old. I have a “sleeping” script that triggers at 7 pm every day. This turns a bunch of lights off and other light automations use it to not turn on large lights if the boolean is set to true.

Last night we went on a date night and there was a babysitter at home. We got home at 7:15 PM, but the house went into sleep mode at 7 pm as usual and the babysitter had trouble seeing in the dark.

Question is - what do we think is the best way for this script to trigger at 7 pm but then wait for us to be home for a few minutes?

Using “wait_for_template” is easy enough to say that group.family is home, but that means as soon as we pull in the driveway the house would turn sleeping on. I would prefer it 10-15 minutes after we get home so that the babysitter is likely gone.

I’ve hacked this up, as I already have booleans tracking whether my wife and I arrived home recently (last 10 minutes) that does other stuff, but, there’s gotta be a better way.

wait_for_trigger would be ideal as I could use the “for” attribute in the trigger saying “for : 00:10:00”, but that wouldn’t work if we were already home (never left) as the trigger’s “to: home” wouldn’t ever fire.

Thanks!!

Matt


automation:
  - id: initiate_sleep
    alias: "[Sleep] Initiate Sleep"
    mode: single
    trigger:
      - platform: time
        at: input_datetime.sleep_time
    condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: "input_boolean.sleeping"
        state: "off"
    action:
      - service: script.initiate_sleep_script

script:
  initiate_sleep_script:
    alias: "[Sleep] Initiate sleep script"
    sequence:
      - wait_template: "{{ is_state('group.family', 'home') }}"
        timeout: "01:30:00"
      - delay: "00:00:05"
      - wait_template: "{{ is_state('input_boolean.matt_arrived_recently', 'off') and is_state('input_boolean.serena_arrived_recently', 'off') }}"
        timeout: "00:30:00"
      - service: input_boolean.turn_on
        entity_id: input_boolean.sleeping
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Triggers:

  • Arrived home for 15 minutes
  • time is 19:00

Conditions:

  • You have been home for 15 minutes
  • It is after 18:59 (which implies before midnight

This assumes you can use a state trigger and condition, maybe something like:

trigger:
- platform: state
  entity_id: zone.home
  to: '2'
  for: '00:15:00'
- platform: time
  at: '19:00:00'
condition:
- condition: state
  entity_id: zone.home
  state: '2'
  for: '00:15:00'
- platform: time
  after: '18:59:59'
action:
...
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