Need some help on an automation script

ha11sy — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 06:55:13 GMT

I am trying to create an automation script which handles all the lights in my dining room and kitchen working from a Hue sensor.

Essentially, what I want to create is from sunrise to 5pm, the lights in my kitchen turn on at 100% and after 5 mins turn back off again

between 5pm and 10pm the lights in my kitchen, dining room and hallway all turn on when motion detected at 100% brightness and after 10pm to sunrise, the same lights all come on but at 15% brightness but im having trouble. The code will all work if I create them in seperate scripts with different before and after times, but surely I can migrate them to one script? Sorry im a bit new to this.

The below code is as far as I got and I get errors on the - type line after the 5pm - 10pm condition relating to indentation errors, but no matter where I put it, it seems to fail.

Would love some thoughts please

metadata: name: House Lights description: When motion is detected, turn on the lights, then turn them off after five minutes of stillness. automations: - starters: - type: device.state.MotionDetection device: Hue motion sensor 1 - Default state: motionDetectionEventInProgress is: true condition: type: time.between after: sunrise before: 5pm actions: - type: device.command.BrightnessAbsolute # Adjust device absolute brightness. brightness: 100 devices: - Kitchen 1 - Kitchen - Kitchen 2 - Kitchen - Bench 1 - Kitchen - Bench 2 - Kitchen - Bench 3 - Kitchen - type: device.command.OnOff on: true devices: - Kitchen LED1 - Kitchen - Kitchen LED 2 - Kitchen - type: device.command.BrightnessRelative brightnessRelativePercent: 100 devices: - Kitchen LED1 - Kitchen - Kitchen LED 2 - Kitchen - type: device.command.ColorAbsolute color: name: "bright white" devices: - Kitchen LED 2 - Kitchen - Kitchen LED1 - Kitchen - starters: - type: device.state.MotionDetection device: Hue motion sensor 1 - Default state: motionDetectionEventInProgress is: false for: 5min actions: - type: device.command.OnOff devices: - Bench 1 - Kitchen - Bench 2 - Kitchen - Bench 3 - Kitchen - Kitchen 1 - Kitchen - Kitchen 2 - Kitchen - Kitchen LED 2 - Kitchen - Kitchen LED1 - Kitchen on: false condition: type: time.between after: 5:00 pm before: 10:00 pm - type: device.command.BrightnessAbsolute brightness: 100 devices: - Kitchen 1 - Kitchen - Kitchen 2 - Kitchen - Bench 1 - Kitchen - Bench 2 - Kitchen - Bench 3 - Kitchen - Hallway 1 - Hallway - Hallway 2 - Hallway - Dining Room 1 - Dining Room - Dining Room 2 - Dining Room - Dining Room 3 - Dining Room - Dining Room 4 - Dining Room - type: device.command.OnOff on: true devices: - Kitchen LED1 - Kitchen - Kitchen LED 2 - Kitchen - type: device.command.BrightnessRelative brightnessRelativePercent: 100 devices: - Kitchen LED1 - Kitchen - Kitchen LED 2 - Kitchen - type: device.command.ColorAbsolute color: name: "bright white" devices: - Kitchen LED 2 - Kitchen - Kitchen LED1 - Kitchen - starters: - type: device.state.MotionDetection device: Hue motion sensor 1 - Default state: motionDetectionEventInProgress is: false for: 5min actions: - type: device.command.OnOff devices: - Kitchen 1 - Kitchen - Kitchen 2 - Kitchen - Bench 1 - Kitchen - Bench 2 - Kitchen - Bench 3 - Kitchen - Hallway 1 - Hallway - Hallway 2 - Hallway - Dining Room 1 - Dining Room - Dining Room 2 - Dining Room - Dining Room 3 - Dining Room - Dining Room 4 - Dining Room on: false

Re: Need some help on an automation script

DWB1973 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:38:20 GMT

Is there a reason why you don't just create separate scripts? Even after correcting all of the indentation errors, your struct has duplicate action, condition, and starter fields. I'm not a YAML coder, and unless I'm wrong, I don't think there is a way that you can rearrange this struct so that it would pass the validation check. Have you seen the example scripts?

Example scripted automations

https://developers.home.google.com/automations/example-scripts

Edit: Apparently this can be done but your array structure is incorrect.

Reference:

https://developers.home.google.com/automations/schema/basics#array

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