Amazing! You’ve just halved my code! Cannot believe I didn’t know about triggers. I’ve got so many automations for on and off!! Thank you 🙏🏻

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Great that this helped!!!

@carlwestman9343

Жыл бұрын

Same here, I was shocked to see that this clip was 9 months old 😅

This might be the single most useful tutorial on Home Assistant I've ever watched. Trigger IDs with Choose Action == better automations.

@SmartHomeJunkie

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this compliment!

I was just playing with brand new automations, and I realised there is one thing people don't mention in tutrorials on Trigger ID's. That is the Automation Mode. For an example, if you have an automation with delays in it, that part of the automation is still running, which means none of the other triggers will work if your automation is in a "Single" mode until that delay is over. As an example, if you have an action with a delay of 5 minutes, the automation is still running during that 5 minute action delay, which means in Single mode, your automation will not trigger at all in that action delay period. This means you really have to think very carefully on how the different triggers and actions correlate with each other and what mode your automation runs in.

Zoals steeds een heel verzorgde en duidelijke video...hartelijk dank ! We weten weer wat gedaan 😉

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Dank je wel voor je steun!

You are creating some really good suggestions that seem to be missed by other presenters - well done and really useful - just subscribed

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the compliment!

Since you published this video, a lot has been changed in Automations. Can you please create an updated video about this topics?

Thank you! Very useful info.

A great tutorial that enabled me to greatly reduce the number of automations. I only had to figure out where to put the light sensor as an additionel condition.

Thanks! Being relatively new to HA, your tutorials are very helpful. My Automations have been simplified to use Trigger ID, thanks to you and this video.

This was a lot tidier than creating automations with a bunch of IF/ELSE conditions , especially when using several conditions to turn on during different time ranges of the day. Finally clicked how to use the "choose between two actions" in the correct way.

Awesome thanks, now to update all my automations 😂

Nice tutorial Ed! This will surely simplify a lot of my automations. Greetings by a fellow Dutchie.

I can't thank you enough for your second sunrise/sunset automation! That works perfectly!

Thanks for a great video! That is the video I am looking for, I used to use 3 automations for notifying 15', 30' and 45' each hour. Now I can re-organize it into one automation. That's cool!

Thanks for the video. I've been combining automations and they are working.

Thank you so much for this tutorial as well as the how to use motion sensors properly. I must have tried 10 or 15 times to figure this out, and watched and read just about the same amount video/HA documentation, and blog posts. You are an excellent instructor.

nice and easy tutorial, thanks

Thanks for a great video, helped me a lot with setting up a more advance automation in HA.

Yet another great video. I was struggling to get a boolean to trigger because I couldn't find a way to select it and change the state but going the other way where I did a call service ==> input boolean: turn off ==> with my boolean being the target made it work.

Thanks for this. Working through my first sets of automations and was wondering how to combine on/off start/stop events into one automation. Good work.

Glad to see you back on the HA scene to provide such useful videos. You've just made my day, I updated all my motion/contact detection based automations.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome to hear! Trigger IDs are so useful in cutting down your automations, aren't they?

Thank you for your explanations. You are a good teacher

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the compliments!

I haven’t use automations for a while since i started using nodered but now i’m tempted to use it again with trigger ids. This is gonna make everything a lot tidier

Well, I did not know this was a thing. Re-did all my automations, much cleaner. Thanks!

In the same day, in about 15 minutes you taught me about Helpers & Trigger ID's to optimize my automations. Thank you so much, I didn't get a chance to really look in on the documentation and play around, and your videos are very well explained, very thorough and very much appreciated. You have a great presentation style. Cheers.

@SmartHomeJunkie

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this for Stephen! 🙏🏻

Junkie, you are the best with your step-by-step explanations. I was going crazy trying to figure out how to do a single automation with 2 triggers and 2 actions. Thank you :)

@SmartHomeJunkie

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the compliment! 🙏🏻

This is great. Helped me a bunch with setting up new automations with my Zooz lights.

Thank you so much Mr Smart Home Junkie! Much appreciated!❤❤❤

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

This was very helpful, trigger_id's finally clicked after watching this. Been re-doing a bunch of my automations and successfully combing them into one. Thank you!

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

Thanks for this video. I haven’t seen any other HA people on YT talking about trigger id’s. I learned something new today. Cheers!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

That's so cool to hear!

Amazing. I think I love you. Subbed.

Wow very interesting! I have no idea of this feature. Thanks a lot! Saludos!

Thank you! On week 2 with HA. I have HA Yellow Standard. Your tutorial has helped me set up successfully! I was going mad, but think certain motion sensors were not working for some reason. But have this set up in another room perfectly. Thanks so much.

@SmartHomeJunkie

10 ай бұрын

Great to hear!

This was so helpful-thank you for this!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear that it helped! 👌🏻

J'ai particulièrement aimé l'exemple des lumières extérieurs à 9:30 du vidéo. J'ai hate de voir si ca va fonctionner ce soir et demain matin :-) Merci pour le vidéo! Maj 9 Jan 2023 am = oui tout à fonctionné! Je vais appliquer cela à d’autre automatisation qui sont en en double ! Encore merci !

I love your style and method. Keep up the great work.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Thank you V J! Cheers!

Thanks! I am now using Trigger ID's. Thanks for your help!

@SmartHomeJunkie

10 ай бұрын

No problem

The only thing I can say is.... You are the Boss!!!

Great info. Thanks.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the compliment!

Excellent, simple but effective. I can get rid of a few automations now. Thank you

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Just what I needed, thank you! - I was trying to modify an existing automation that already had a single action defined, so completely missed the _choose_ action and couldn't figure out how to get the separate sets of actions into the automation. All working now though, thanks to the video.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Glad that it helped!

Nice one! Time to clean-up automations. Thanks!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. Yes, you will diminish your automations for sure! I had one case where I could replace six automations by only one! Woohoo! 🎉

Thanks Ed, this is great. I have just subscribed :)

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support Ben!

Very gooood ! Thank you for this new tutorial, I didnt know this awesome possibilty, I already decreased the number of my automations 💪👍

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Superb! Nice to hear that it helped Phil! 👍🏻👍🏻

Na al meer dan een jaar HA te hebben, was dit iets wat ik zocht. 6 automatisaties herleid naar 1 of 2 eens je door hebt wat je wilt bereiken. Je video's zijn heel leerrijk en toch gemakkelijk uitgelegd. Het slechte nieuws is dat ik weer extra werk heb om alles te herschrijven maar dat is het waard! Geweldige thanks bovenbuur!!! Toppie!!! 😁😁😁

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Heel graag gedaan! Fijn dat ik je kon helpen!

Thanks for the nice and clear tutorials. It helped me a lot to develop my boards and automation. It’s an addiction this HA. Keep continue the nice video’s.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Erwin. I hope I can continue to do this for a long time.

Thank you, very usefull

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Thanks a lot for this another useful video. I had decided to use Node Red since I can put one group of automations together in one flow. The idea was that I would have a better overview. But experienced that it's dificult there to deal with boolean logics and you have sometimes have to convert values etc. As far as I can see it's possible to create a group of automation tasks in one automation using trigger-id's which is excellent. So I have now decided to bring over my Node Red automations to home assistant automations.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Good choice!!!

Bedankt voor de duidelijke uitleg.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome jdep0 ☺️

Excellent, this will probably help me eliminate about a quarter of my automations!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I could help!

Yes!!! Thanks! Haven't even watched the video yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing your breakdown after last week's video and comment discussions.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Chris. I hope it helps.

@KaleoMgmt

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie So far, so good. Just combined 3 Automations into 1 using Trigger ID's. Odd question: when adding additional conditions, is it necessary to use "AND"? Do you know if, when there are more than 1 Conditions (i.e. Trigger ID and Sun), the default is AND or OR? Below is a yaml example: OPTION 1 (using AND) - choose: - conditions: - condition: trigger id: back_door_sunset - condition: and conditions: - condition: sun after: sunset OPTION 1 (not using AND) - choose: - conditions: - condition: trigger id: back_door_sunset - condition: sun after: sunset

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@KaleoMgmt Great!

Thanks so much for explaining Trigger IDs. Also l had no idea 'Choose' even existed.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Great that it helped. This can be very powerful to create automations that handle multiple scenarios in one!

Thanks for a wonderful job you are doing. - What if I would like the action of a climate "preset mode" to be like the actual helper "Dropdown" mode.

BTW excellent videos. I'm learning a ton with you! Question: in the case I have motion sensors that I want to turn active when the sun sets but offset by time how do I do that and where? This video shows something similar and could see the offset feature but this is not I need. My offset is for the sensor and not the light. Hope this makes sense

Great i wan thinking about how to organize my many automations, this is a great option thanks.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support!

As someone who is just starting out with HA your explanations are really helpful- Thanks!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Yes, I am trying to help people like you who start with Home Assistant to get you as enthusiastic as me! 😊 It's a great platform!

@Joseph-ko2kl

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie So there is one thing I do not understand- in your example the light turns on when motion is detected and off when no motion is detected- I assume the amount of time it takes to turn off is based on the motion sensor default- How would you tell the light to stay on for X minutes before turning off? Would you use "duration (optional)" choice on the light-off trigger or would use a condition or would you use the transition option in Actions? Thanks.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Anthony Indeed, you can place a delay action before the light.turn off service. This way you can use a delay time of your choice.

This is a great video, I was thinking there had to be a better way than creating two different automations. Do you have a video about a Manual Override Switch? Thanks

Great tutorial, I am new to home assistant and have followed your tutorials when learning anything to do with home assistant so thank you, but I'm having an issue where once the light has turned on it will turn itself almost immediately, I've checked but cannot see why, do you have any idea why.

Thank you for a great helpful video, I have managed to do a Automation to setup a Shelly Button 1 but on doing so I m having to wait 3 mins between each press of the button for light to turn on or off? Im also trying to find a way to send to mobile and my location with google map and for it to ring or text the location is there ways to do this. Thanks

This is a great tutorial. Would it be possible to do a slightly updated version to show the current Home Assistant setup? Although still similar, there are some differences now. When you click the 3 dots on the trigger now, the option is called Edit ID rather than Edit Trigger ID and then you get the Trigger ID field.

Hi I like your videos it's very helpful. I wanna ask why did you choose Call service and not choose Device then select the device itself?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I used call service because it's a light group and not a device.

Many thanks for your video (and the one about sending email notifications using GMAIL). Oddly I can get the Aqara water sensor to email but can't get the thermometer to send an email if the temperature gets above a certain point. My question relating to triggers is do I set a trigger/automation based off devices or entities as the sensors appear under both.

Good morning - always follow your tutorials. I set up the motion activated light just as yours. In rare cases, when the light is turned off triggered by the light_off, the light will not be triggered by the light_on until wait for some time. I was wondering if it's because both light_on and light_off are almost triggered at the same moment? And the light was triggered by light_off and missed light_on, so the next light_on trigger has to be waited for. thanks!

Hi! Welcome back 🌹

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jessica! 🙏🏻

Many thanks for this. I've built three smart power strips each with four sockets which are individually switched using ESP modules and ESPhome. All 8 sockets on two of the strips come on at 2:00 am when we have cheaper electricity. The 4 sockets on the third strip also come on at 2:00 am but only if an input boolean is set (used mostly to charge power tool batteries, so infrequently). All 12 sockets turn off at 6:00 am when electricity costs more. But two sockets (one on each of two strips) are dedicated to charging phones (one for my phone, and one for my wife's phone). So each of these two sockets will turn off if the individual phone status shows not plugged for two minutes. Also, each one will turn off if the respective 'phone battery level reaches 95%. Two further sockets are dedicated to charging laptops and will turn off after 2 hours (the time it takes to charge each one from almost flat). Finally, one socket is dedicated to fast charging 18650 batteries and will turn off after one hour. To achieve all that, I had 11 automations but after watching your excellent KZread video, I have everything controlled with a single automation. So many thanks and keep up the good work and I'll certainly buy you a coffee. I have my own KZread channel so I know just how much time and effort goes into making these videos. Ian

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Ian. I really appreciate this! And indeed, creating a video takes a lot of work. I don't think many people realize this.

Top notch!!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍🏻

Thanks

@SmartHomeJunkie

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your support 🙏🏻

Good tutorial. Although, I can do this in HA without trigger IDs but with device and it still works. I am not sure if HA recently made an update to automations to make them better. I am currently using one automation to turn on/off my garage lights without trigger id. Is there any benefit to trigger IDs now? My next step would be to group my garage doors together to turn on/off the lights. I am not sure if trigger id will allow for easier grouping. Ps: it funny that I used one of you videos to setup my motion sensor lights and you used trigger ids but I was too lazy to watch your video on trigger id and used device instead and it still worked. That how I found out. Now, I came to your trigger id video to understand how it works and it looks easy. Lol

Danke!

Do you have videos for infercaing with Ecobee thermostats? I need an automation that controls batching my Ecobees at ince. I can't seem to control the fan function alone. I would use this to create a Fresh AIr Function.

Nice example of the use of multiple triggers. You mentioned in the text that we could ask for a specific automation. Well i have one: I use a Xiaomi curtain motor in the bathroom window. I would like to open the curtain at different triggers depending on the season. Eg in summer it should open at time 07:45, but in the winter it should only open at eg 09:00. At the moment the opening happens at a specific time. And closing works on sunset with an offset. But the combination of season and time, with for each season a different time is what i am not getting right. Would be great if you could help me with that.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Great use case! I’ll look into it.

I just found out, that you can copy each trigger. This makes it much easier to click them together. Just press the three dots and choose duplicate.

Hi there, appreciate your videos that are super helpful for beginner me. Question: Do you have a video or can point me to how you added the bulb/light controls? ie. The transition time, RGB value, etc.? I have a basic setup with a Smart Life RGB bulb HA but I cannot see all these options and it limits what I can do.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. You have to enable advanced mode in HA to see them. It's in your user profile settings.

just spent several days chasing my tail not able to get a complex automation to turn off on no-motion trigger. As per usual, check to see if Uncle Ed has a tutorial and problem solved in minutes!!! :) I never thought for a minute that my no-motion trigger should go at the top of the tree and then be referenced as a later option - initially that's counter-intuitive to me - I've been adding it as an action (wait for trigger)at the end of all my if/then/else conditions - and failing every time. With this method though, when I ran it from the UI, it showed it had taken a third option and done nothing, that's all that showed up in Traces, so I thought I'd done something wrong. BUT, walk into the room, correct scene comes on, leave room and get back to laptop to check and it's switched them all off! :) Thanks yet again mate!! :)

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@nicsarahnicol9742

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie I wrote YAML for 15 binary sensors to create time slots based on sunrise/set, because sun isn't available as a helper, only time. But watching this, I think I could have just had multiple trigger IDs based on sun instead and done it all in the UI - I'll give it a try, as it'd be easier to share as a self contained blueprint instead of code. Every day's a school day!!

fijn bedankt heel duidelijk dat is wat ik zocht 😉

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Top! Mooi dat ik je heb kunnen helpen Benno!

I'm new to HA, so maybe something has been added since this video. An even more powerful feature is to use 'automation trigger variables' to handle multiple states or even multiple entities. For example, the on/off state of the motion detector is available as trigger.to_state.state. The entity_id is available as trigger.entity_id. You could pass the motion state directly to the switch service with no conditional logic. If you're clever in naming your entities according to a pattern, the same automation could handle ALL your motion-controlled lights. There are way more trigger variables than alluded to in the documentation. Once your automation has been triggered at least once, click on TRACES at the upper right. Then click on the 'Changed Variables' tab. You can use any of those variables in your automation. I do use Trigger IDs to introduce associated data. For example, you could set the trigger id to the entity_id of the light you want to control. Again, this eliminates redundant logic. The automation is driven mostly by data rather than code. I don't know if people are exaggerating, but you shouldn't need 100s of automations. At some point you must be repeating similar logic?

Great video, thank you for putting this together. I am curious, any particular reason why I should pick Call Service instead of the Device? I usually pick Device>Kitchen Light 1>Turn On...

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

With call service you have more options and you do not depend on a device ID. If you have to exchange a light later on, the automation still works if you use call service. It won't if you use the device because of the needed device ID.

I never got my head around triggers, but I understand now. I spent the last couple of weeks building HA back up from scratch as my instance kept crashing with no explanation. I didn't like any of the blueprints for the Aqara Cube, so I started last night extracting attribute for what face side it was on, however that would have meant multiple automations. Thanks to you I can do one automation for all the features on one side. Your timing could not have been better. Thank you.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

That's brilliant! Great to hear!

@antoniodecrisci2369

2 жыл бұрын

Just got my Agara cube with conbee II and using the agara blueprint. It's a bit glitchy, but working. How does this new video improve it? Thanks

@davidlangley833

2 жыл бұрын

@@antoniodecrisci2369 I am using Zigbee2mqtt with Sonoff dongle, like you say the blue prints can glitchy. Using the face attribute the automation defines what face is up. There are many different actions per face, each action would require a separate automaton, Using trigger IDs can put all the triggers and actions in one Automaton, One face will represent one automaton for all the actions available on that face. So instead of having 54 sperate automations, you just have 6. I hope this helps

@antoniodecrisci2369

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidlangley833 thanks for sharing. I must be missing something because at the moment I have one automation entry created and it does about 10 different things, for example it dims and brightens my main lights, open and closes my shades, turns on my fan heater and off, streams music. And with one shake it stops or turns off all these entities. That's maybe 10 things in one automation, using the standard 57 move blueprint. Does this sound correct to you?

@davidlangley833

2 жыл бұрын

@@antoniodecrisci2369 That does sound correct, if necessary I could use all six faces in one automaton, but for me that becomes complicated to follow. Included in 57 actions are turning from one face to another, for example face 5 to 1 or face 3 to 1 etc. which increases the number of auctions. The' basic' automations on one side is 7 actions x that by 6 facesthat is 42 actions. Using the examples above that increases the number of possible actions. My personal coding skills are not great, but using my automations instead of blueprints gives me more control to fulfill my use case. Blueprints are excellent, don't get me wrong and anyone coding the blueprints are incredibly talented. I think I like to know how yaml works hence I will try and do my own automations. Again I hope this helps.

Great tutorial !! would it be possible that you make a video for blinds control...?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

If I had blind controls then yes. I do have something in the pipeline. A company sent me some devices that I have to check out first.

Great Video Thanks :) What is your card to the weather (first card you have) ? thankssss :)

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

It's the animated weather card from HACS

Wow, this is cool, time to move back from Node-RED. Thank you!

@SmartHomeJunkie

9 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Good Day - just followed your video and set up an automation to trigger a light on/off based on motion - worked perfectly - except for - in the action section, all my home rooms show, except for the Guest Bedroom - which is where I setup this automation (I had to select the actual light switch "device"). I verified the light switch is in the area/zones for the house, the light switch and motion detector are assigned to the guest bed room, I have restarted and reboot HA, but the Guest Bedroom does not show in the Call Service choice of this automation. Your help is appreciated.

@daviddonnelly8406

4 ай бұрын

Well - just learned, that lights and switches are different. My guest bedroom "light switch" is actually a "switch" entity. When in Call Service, if I select "switch", the guest bedroom shows up. All is good. At the very least - thanks for listening...it helped me learn the difference between switches and lights...as entities. in

What is the reason for choosing "Calling a Service" as the action instead of just using a Device action? Also, can TriggerIDs be shared between Automations? I tried it and it doesn't look like it. That would be helpful to make the triggers more reusable so they don't have to be redefined in several automations. I believe in defining something only once.

@SmartHomeJunkie

7 ай бұрын

I explained in a couple of videos why calling a service is better. Mostly because you can easily swap out devices if you call a service using the entity id. This cannot be done using a device call.

Great video! I think I've watched it 4 times over the past few months! Question, maybe a bit off topic, why do you use "call service" instead of "device" then "turn device on/off" entity?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

If you use call service, you often have more options.

What a great tutorial again! I follow your tuts with great interest. Thank you for making these tutorials. I have a question however, slightly related with this topic. I have an automation, where i use two different times and a template where these times are being used. I would like to use variables for the times, so when i change the times in the automation, the times in the template will also be changed. Now i have to change the times on two places... Do you perhaps have a solution for this?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

You might want to use a datetime helper to store the time value and use that?

@berttammer4900

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie OK, never used helpers... But i am watching your tutorial about helpers: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKiGvMGQcZu-qcY.html Trying to use that for my issue. Thanks for your great tutorials!

can you create automation that uses time event to start Power switch to turn on my Xmas lights at 4pm and off at 10pm but only Monday to Thursday and Friday Saturday & Sunday start at 4pm still but turn off later say 11:30pm please , I am at a loss was trying to use time patterns also but no luck !

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you can. You can select weekdays in the condition.

Gives me a better idea on what the Trigger ID's did, I was hoping it would help setting up a trigger with another trigger, eg, if Entering Zone and then open the front door for 2 seconds then do this action, but unfortunately not... but hey... at least I learn't what triggers do... which is a win... keep up the good content.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

You might want to watch this video. It's a lightly different subject, but it explains exactly how you can daisy chain automations so that they trigger each other: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYKh0dCup5ereNI.html. And you can use the AND action within the action part of an automation, so if you create two trigger IDs and combine them using an AND or OR in the actions part of an automation, you will get your result as well I believe.

@JonathanScottNZ

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks so much, I'll take a look at it today.

nice video and walkthrough and nice automation, but i have a problem with it, i use it with condition sun, if it gets triggered just before the condition expires, and the off trigger is after condition, the light is on all day. how do you avoid it

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Hi! Add the condition to your action instead of in the conditions area.

your videos are wonderful. Can you help with Latest version HA Alarmo setup please?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I will put it on the list.

@Saun2020

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie YOU ARE THE BEST. Thank you.

So I am making automations using the Aqara Fp2 with this and my wife doesn’t like how it turns off right away. Now I can add a delay or whatever but how do I make the light stay on if I for example we used voice command or pressed the switch? That way it won’t turn off when the presence is clear? Love you videos by the way!

@SmartHomeJunkie

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, that is possible if you use a toggle helper that switches on when you use a voice command or switch. Use that helper as a condition in your motion automation.

Man. This just cut down my automatons by...... a lot!

Hi and many thanks for this nice and powerfull tutorial👍 Creating "global" trigger id's, we can use in multiple automations, is not intended or planned....? This could also make the work easier when specific triggers will be used more often.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

No, and I don't think it will work either. If two automations run at the same time, the trigger IDs might get mixed up if they were global.

Nice, instructive video. But it doesn't really show the advantage of having one larger automation as opposed to two smaller ones. AFAICS, the real advantage is when the two automations have things in common, for example, the conditions. Or when they also trigger a common operation. These would otherwise need to be duplicated which makes maintenance harder.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! Thanks for this addition.

This video changes a lot for me. Thank you for posting it. I can reduce the number of my automations by at least 50%, maybe more. 1 question, though, is there a point where automation can be "too much?" For example, I have plugged all my lamps into remote dimmers, and they all have remote switches now. Would it be too much to write ALL the remote lamp switch operations into a single automation (5 or 6 lamps total), or should I have just one automation per lamp?

@David-nc9ci

6 ай бұрын

If you're exclusively using the visual editor, then do whatever is easiest for you to maintain. The performance difference is going to be negligible.

Great tutorial, thanks! I understand that combining automations reduces the number of automations. Are there any other benefits to combining automations using triggers?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

It gives you a much cleaner overview of all your automations if you have one automations that performs several tasks for the same device. I had loads of them and sometimes it was very difficult to find the one that I made for a specific device. Now I have much less automations which makes my workflow a lot quicker.

Wow been trying to get this worked and failed until watched your guide

Great, do you have a video for start dimming and stop dimming for dimming switches?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thx! No, I don't have a video for that, but it should be easy to set up if the dimmer switches can be read. I guess out well show you the triggers if you add a dimming switch as a trigger.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

I just checked. The Philips Dimmer switch has a lot of Triggers for starting dimming, so you should be able to get this done.

Hi thanks for great videos. Pls can you do a automation with a door open and announcement on google speaker and repeats the announcement till the door is closed. I get working but does not repeat , thanks

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Just add a repeat until to the actions and put your message notification within that repeat and you should be fine.

Are trigger ID's unique to an automation? I want to have 2 automations to control 2 different Hue dimmer switches (4 buttons). Could they both have Trigger ID's of "button 1 short press" (as an example) or do they need to be globally unique?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can use the same trigger ID in multiple automations. They are bound to the specific automation.

Bedankt voor de video, werkt perfekt... Vraagje: enig idee hoe ik volgendes oplos. Ik heb een aantal bwegingsmelders met batterij. alle batterijen hebben een entitiy en deze heb ik in een area gepakt. wanneer een van deie batteriejn een status vernadering geeft wil ik een melding op de phone.. Gaat dit met area of moet ik alle batterijen apart triggeren laten? bedankt voor een tip

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Dank je wel Tom. Ik heb dit nooit met een area geprobeerd eerlijk gezegd, maar inderdaad ieder apart. Je zou het wellicht nog kunnen proberen om ze in een group te zetten. Maar zou het niet handig zijn als je ook weet van welke sensor de batterij precies bijna op is een dat je daarom een aparte melding per sensor wilt hebben?

@hb9dod

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Ja dann beter apart..ik zal eens kijken wat ik er van bakk Bedankt in elk geval