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Have lights come on with motion when the sun is below a specified elevation and before a certain time
blueprint:
name: Motion-activated Light
description: Turn on a light when motion is detected.
domain: automation
source_url: https://gist.github.com/christovic/8acb058b915394997946e35e3a126d2a
input:
motion_entity:
name: Motion Sensor
selector:
entity:
domain: binary_sensor
device_class: motion
light_target:
name: Light
selector:
target:
entity:
domain: light
sun_elevation:
name: Sun Elevation
default: 2
selector:
number:
max: 90
min: -10
mode: box
unit_of_measurement: degrees
no_motion_wait:
name: Wait time
description: Time to leave the light on after last motion is detected.
default: 120
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 3600
unit_of_measurement: seconds
# If motion is detected within the delay,
# we restart the script.
mode: restart
max_exceeded: silent
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: !input motion_entity
from: "off"
to: "on"
condition:
condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sun.sun
attribute: elevation
below: !input sun_elevation
action:
- service: light.turn_on
target: !input light_target
- wait_for_trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: !input motion_entity
from: "on"
to: "off"
- delay: !input no_motion_wait
- service: light.turn_off
target: !input light_target
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