Greetings all,
I am trying to set up an automation in which my living room lights turn on at sunset if neither my wife or I are at home.
The automation UI only lets me use devices in the actions part and not entities. My HA has an entity named lights.living_room which is a room/group passed to it by Philips Hue.
How would I go about using that entity in an automation or turning that entity into a device.
Thanks !
Change the Action Type to āCall Serviceā instead of āDeviceā.
In fact I recommend you do not use device triggers, conditions or actions if you can. This will make it a lot easier if you ever have to replace a device/entity.
This worked like a charm, thanks again.
This tip about using service calls, is this a best practice for cards as well ?
Cards?
What do you mean?
When working with dashboards and creating buttons/entities is the best practice to use service calls as often as possible in place of other things ?
Sorry for the confusion.
You canāt use device automations there.
No I know that, Iām just asking if in general it is best to use service calls whenever possible instead of interacting directly with devices and entities.
Not referring specifically to automation.
Yes, thatās what I said:
There is nowhere else this ādeviceā logic applies.
Okay, thanks for the clarification.
Plus, you are far more likely to get high-quality support if you use normal service calls with entities/data than if you use the device-based triggers/actions in automations/scripts.