Hi, I'm trying to automate a sleep mode activation which sends a notification to my phone to activate it, or delay it by 1 hour. It should automatically activate after 5 minutes if I don't respond to either. However I can't seem to get the 'triggered by' to pick up my 'wait for triggers' mobile phone response trigger ids.
#Trigger ID / ID usage
grave sluice
Both of my 'wait for triggers' have ids set for them, but the 'triggered by' can't use them.
just to show, i have to go into the yaml to assign it's trigger id, but this causes it not to run and runs the default part of the choose section
spice lance
Tigger id is only assign when the automation is started. So you can't wait for it in a "wait for". It will not change during the run of the automation.
For this problem, just don't wait IN the automation, just wait out the automation. So just:
- tigger at 22:00 => send notification
- trigger at 22:05 => act if no response received
- trigger on response => do what you want to do
grave sluice
I ended up doing this condition
condition: template
value_template: "{{ wait.trigger.id == "activate_now" }}"
which got it working! 🙂
spice lance
The best automations are just quick and be done. All the long waiting is best to keep outside the automation. Just act on the event and be done