short sage
Is this even possible? I have a ZBMiniR2 behind a wall plate out in my garage, and I have various automations for it based on times.
But what I also want to add is an auto-off timer that ONLY fires if the switch was toggled by hitting the actual physical switch that is connected.
Does this relay actually expose that information? I know it knows when the switch is toggled, but does it actually expose that as a state?
hasty venture
Is this even possible? I have a ZBMiniR2 behind a wall plate out in my garage, a...
home assistant will show you in some capcity what turned a device on
https://data.home-assistant.io/docs/context/
you can see this for each automation if you click on traces, click on the trigger, and click "changed variables", there will be a context for the automation (under this), the from_state of the trigger, and the to_state of the trigger
then you can use a template as a condition
short sage
home assistant will show you in some capcity what turned a device on
https://da...
I'll have to dig deeper into this when I get home later. Thanks!
tulip fern
i have this in a couple of automations to set a variable which i then use in an if block as a condition within the automation to do different things depending on the source of the trigger.
triggertype: |-
{% set id = trigger.to_state.context.id %}
{% set parent = trigger.to_state.context.parent_id %}
{% set user = trigger.to_state.context.user_id %}
{% set output = "default" %}
{% if ((id!=None, parent, user) == (true, None, None)) %}
{% set output = "Physical Switch" %}
{% endif %}
{% if ((id!=None, parent, user!=None) == (true, None, true)) %}
{% set output = "HA Switch" %}
{% endif %}
{% if ((id!=None, parent!=None, user) == (true, true, None)) %}
{% set output = "HA Auto" %}
{% endif %}
{{output}}
alias: Get Trigger Origin```
the `triggertype` will then be
`Physical Switch` if it was done by the switch, `HA Switch`if it was done by a dashboard button and `HA Auto`if it was done by an automationthere might be neater ways but this is what i got working a while ago and have reused it a few times
short sage
Thanks all. Y'all have pointed me towards some more docs. I love docs. 🤣