I dont understand what’s going wrong here. I want my house to give me an update on some things as soon as me (or my husband in this case) come home and open the door in the next 2 minutes. If the door is not opened in 2 minutes I do not want it to continue.
For a long time I accomplished this by using the door opening as the trigger and I had a condition that was a 2 minute timer - started the moment we got home. That worked fine but it took 3 different automations to accomplish and just didnt feel like a concise solution. I’ve used wait for trigger numerous times since in other automations and it works perfectly so I decided to try to use it to clean this one up.
When I manually change his location to something else and then back to home, it triggers the automation but nothing happens when I open the door. Am I using timeout wrong? It seems to me like continue on timeout would mean continue running actions after 2 minutes even if the trigger never comes. I do not want it to do that, I want the automation to stop. Even though I can see that the door state is going from off to on within the 2 minute window, it aborts every time.
alias: welcome me home - Matt
description: welcome person home when the door is opened and give an update on the house
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- person.matt
to: home
condition: []
action:
- wait_for_trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.front_door_iaszone_2
to: "on"
from: "off"
timeout:
hours: 0
minutes: 2
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
continue_on_timeout: false
- service: notify.alexa_media_echo_show_8_2nd_gen
data:
data:
type: tts
message: >-
Welcome home. The thermostat is set to
{{states('climate.tstat_5df596_t5_thermostat')}} to
{{state_attr('climate.tstat_5df596_t5_thermostat', 'temperature')}} and
the vacuum last ran {{ relative_time(states.vacuum.dustin.last_changed)
}} ago
mode: single