topic Automations… if xxx else yyyy in Home Automation

Automations… if xxx else yyyy

jh9 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:43:51 GMT

Hi, Basically I’m after a google home automation script that turns lights on (if they are off) and off (if they are on).

When I run the following script it turns the lights on, then off 😐, and on other occasions it seems to do 2 or 3 actions… eg on off on, off on, etc. I assume it’s doing the following starters and actions sequentially

ps the reason for this request is to minimise the growing number of automations I have, an if then else command would half the number of automations needed and simplify favourites and automations tabs on google home

regards

jim

metadata:
name: test lights
description: toggle lights, if off turn on, if on turn off
automations:
# if off turn on
- starters:
- type: device.state.OnOff
device: pendant lights - Kitchen
state: on
is: false
actions:
- type: device.command.OnOff
devices: pendant lights - Kitchen
on: true
# if on turn off
- starters:
- type: device.state.OnOff
device: pendant lights - Kitchen
state: on
is: true
actions:
- type: device.command.OnOff
devices: pendant lights - Kitchen
on: false

Re: Automations… if xxx else yyyy

OpethNJ — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:45:23 GMT

First glance you would want a condition for each that separates so they dont randomly trigger each other. Could also probably do it with FOR or supressFOR in your starter.

Re: Automations… if xxx else yyyy

jh9 — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 22:26:57 GMT

hi, thanks for the info (i'm just back from hols), i'll google FOR and see what it can do

Re: Automations… if xxx else yyyy

jh9 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 22:56:45 GMT

I couldn’t find anything to help, I also looked at conditions

i guess “if then else” is not supported which seems rather odd as it’s a basic element of all programming languages I’ve used for the last 50 years…

Re: Automations… if xxx else yyyy

mraby6889 — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 13:39:45 GMT

Re: Automations… if xxx else yyyy

mraby6889 — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 13:42:26 GMT

Re: Automations… if xxx else yyyy

jh9 — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 14:00:46 GMT

This was solved, here