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Home Assistant BluePrint to turn on light, switch, scene or script based on motion and illuminance
blueprint:
name: Turn on light, switch, scene, script or group based on motion and illuminance.
description: >
Turn on a light, switch, scene, script or group based on motion detection, and low light level.
This blueprint uses helper entities you have to create yourself for some input values, to be able to dynamically set limits.
For instructions on creating the helper entities take a look in the Home Assistant Community forum topic:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/turn-on-light-switch-scene-or-script-based-on-motion-and-illuminance-more-conditions/257085
Required entities:
- Motion sensor (single sensor or group)
- Target entity (light, switch, scene or script)
Optional features:
- You can set a cutoff entity of which the value determines whether the illuminance level is low and the automation needs to trigger.
- You can define a blocking entity, which blocks the automation from running when this entity's state is on.
- You van define a turn-off blocking entity, which blocks the entity from turning off after the set delay.
- Time limits can also be defined to limit the time before and after the automation should trigger.
- If you want the entity to turn off after a certain amount of seconds, you can use the Wait Time input.
- If you want another entity than the target_entity to turn off after the delay, you can define a separate Turn-off entity.
- If you do not enable the optional entities the automation will skip these conditions.
Optional entities:
- Illuminance sensor (sensor in illuminance class)
- Illuminance cutoff value (numeric)
- Blocking entity (any entity with state on/off)
- Time limit before (input_datetime)
- Time limit after (input_datetime)
- Turn off wait time [in seconds!] (numeric) - will not work with script or scene target entities.
- Turn off entity (any entity_id)
domain: automation
input:
motion_sensor:
name: Motion Sensor
description: This sensor will trigger the turning on of the target entity.
selector:
entity:
target_entity:
name: Target entity.
description: The light, switch, scene to turn on (or script to run) when the automation is triggered.
selector:
entity:
illuminance_sensor:
name: (OPTIONAL) Illuminance sensor
description: This sensor will be used to determine the illumination.
default:
selector:
entity:
domain: sensor
device_class: illuminance
illuminance_cutoff:
name: (OPTIONAL) Illuminance cutoff value
description: This input_number will be used to compare to the current illumination to determine if it is low.
default: none
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 600
blocker_entity:
name: (OPTIONAL) Blocking entity
description: If this entity's state is on, it will prevent the automation from running. E.g. sleepmode or away mode.
default:
selector:
entity:
time_limit_after:
name: (OPTIONAL) Only run after time.
description: Automation will only run when time is later than this input_datetime value.
default:
selector:
entity:
domain: input_datetime
time_limit_before:
name: (OPTIONAL) Only run before time.
description: Automation will only run when time is earlier than this input_datetime value.
default:
selector:
entity:
domain: input_datetime
no_motion_wait:
name: Wait time
description: Time to leave the light on after last motion is detected.
default: none
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 3600
unit_of_measurement: seconds
turn_off_blocker_entity:
name: (OPTIONAL) Turn-off Blocking entity
description: If this entity's state is on, it will prevent the target entity from turning off after the set delay.
default:
selector:
entity:
target_off_entity:
name: (OPTIONAL) Turn-off entity
description: If defined, this entity will be turned off instead of the default target entity. This can be helpful when using target entities of type scene or script.
default:
selector:
entity:
mode: restart
max_exceeded: silent
variables:
target_entity: !input target_entity
illuminance_currently: !input illuminance_sensor
illuminance_cutoff: !input illuminance_cutoff
blocker_entity: !input blocker_entity
time_limit_before: !input time_limit_before
time_limit_after: !input time_limit_after
no_motion_wait: !input no_motion_wait
entity_domain: "{{ states[target_entity].domain }}"
turn_off_blocker_entity: !input turn_off_blocker_entity
target_off_entity: !input target_off_entity
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: !input motion_sensor
to: 'on'
condition:
# First condition: When entity was already on because the automation ran recently, do not check illuminance because it could have increased above threshold because of a light that was just turned on.
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ (states[target_entity].state == 'on') or (illuminance_currently == none) or (illuminance_cutoff == none) or (states[illuminance_currently].state | int < illuminance_cutoff | int) }}"
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ (blocker_entity == none) or (states[blocker_entity].state == 'off') }}"
- condition: template
value_template: >
{% set current_time = now().strftime("%H:%M") %}
{% if time_limit_before != none and time_limit_after == none %}
{{ states[time_limit_before].state > current_time }}
{% elif time_limit_before == none and time_limit_after != none %}
{{ states[time_limit_after].state < current_time }}
{% elif time_limit_before != none and time_limit_after != none %}
{% set before_limit_is_on_next_day = time_limit_after > time_limit_before %}
{% if not before_limit_is_on_next_day %}
{{ (states[time_limit_after].state < current_time) and (states[time_limit_before].state > current_time) }}
{% elif before_limit_is_on_next_day %}
{{ (states[time_limit_before].state > current_time) or (states[time_limit_after].state < current_time) }}
{% endif %}
{% else %}
true
{% endif %}
action:
- service: homeassistant.turn_on
entity_id: !input target_entity
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ no_motion_wait != none }}"
- wait_for_trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: !input motion_sensor
from: "on"
to: "off"
- delay:
seconds: '{{ no_motion_wait | int }}'
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ (turn_off_blocker_entity == none) or (states[turn_off_blocker_entity].state == 'off') }}"
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ (target_off_entity != none) }}"
sequence:
- service: homeassistant.turn_off
entity_id: !input target_off_entity
default:
- service: homeassistant.turn_off
entity_id: !input target_entity
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