Why is [triger] is an invalid option for [automation]?

Configuration
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I suffered a corrupt microSD card in my RasberryPi so had to start afresh again. I thought I had enough notes and copy of setup files to get things running smoothly but I am getting the following error in my log and can’t work out why:

Invalid config for [automation]: [triger] is an invalid option for [automation]. Check: automation->triger. (See /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/automation.yaml:6).

I have tried reading the documentation and feel that my script is ok and I am using the trigger option correctly.

I assume the “:6” bit means that it is my 6th automation in which case it will be the following:

 - alias: "Welcome Home"
      hide_entity: True
      trigger:
        platform: state
        entity_id: group.all_devices
        from: 'not_home'
        to: 'home'
      condition:
        condition: state
        entity_id: sun.sun
        state: below_horizon
      action:
        service: script.all_lights_on

Essentially the script should turn the lights on when one of us comes home and if it is dark.

If the :6 does not mean the 6th automation, could someone help me identify which one it is or how I can narrow it down; there are 13 automatons in total in the script.

2

It should be trigger with two g, not triger

6 means line number 6.

3

Thanks for the quick reply.

[Triger] is how the log file actually reads :slight_smile:

Line 6 is blank in my yaml file - unless it does not count # when it counts line numbers? The first 14 lines of my file are:

#################################################################
## 
##Automation
##
#################################################################

- alias: "Porch Light On PM"
  hide_entity: True
  trigger:
    platform: sun
    event: sunset
  action:
    service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.front_door
4

That means you have written triger instead of trigger somewhere in your code.

5

Ha! Don’t I feel stupid - I was staring at that line for ages trying to work out what was wrong. :flushed:

The error was on line 81 though so and in ‘automation’ 8 so don’t know what the 6 meant?

Anyhow, thank you and I shall spend more time reading my code in future (I read somewhere that reading it backwards can help. Maybe I should try that!)

6

Great, but I do not understand why it is not on line 6.

7

Hi @johngc,

Yesterday i updated HA from 0.45.1 to 0.50.2 and i had some errors in my configuration:

imagen

One of the errors (automation one) is more or less the same than yours:

here the log:

2017-08-22 23:25:23 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Invalid config for [automation]: [after] is an invalid option for [automation]. Check: automation->trigger->1->after. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 102). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/automation/

How did you find exacly the error? you were looking one by one each automation?

thanks