Device conditions

[edgy haven]

I am having a real difficult time using the new device condition selector. I swear it doesn't show everything. I have a bambu p1s. I have a card showing me print status. However, when I go into automations, I can't find it. What I want to do is turn off the power (smart switch) at 11:55pm if the printer is idle, however, I can't find it as a condition.

Anybody run into this before?

[regal perch]

Select entity state as condition type, then use the entity that tells you the state

[edgy haven]

Interesting. Thanks I will try that

[storm hedge]

I've had a very hard time getting my P1S to play nice with automations.

What I've done is to use the Current stage entity, and just have it trigger whenever it changes. In the "Then" I use a "choose" and template conditions. For example, I have a strip of ws2814 (RGB+WW) leds in a riser at the top of the printer. I wanted to replace the built in light with the strip, and have the new light come on full brightness while printing, but "turn off" to a gentle animation. To detect when a print starts, Current stage changes from 'cleaning_nozzle_tip' to 'auto_bed_leveling'.

I unplugged the built-in light and used a device trigger for "P1S Printer Chamber light turned on or off". I again used a "choose" and template conditions, where I just check if it was turned on or off and act accordingly. If it's "off" (meaning it's set to the animation effect with different colors) then I save the current settings in a temporary scene, then set the effect to none and the color and white to 100% brightness. If I'm turning if off, I just apply the scene that I saved to restore whatever colors I had it set to.

You could check a few different entities to see if the printer is active. Active tray should be "unavailable" when not printing. Current stage usually goes to "idle" when not printing. You shouldn't have a hotend or bed target temp when not printing, so you could check if those are 0. Print status is another one.

[warped sage]

@storm hedge Can you just share the yaml?

[humble pine]

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[storm hedge]

Yeah, sorry, I thought I could explain it more concisely. Here's the YAML for detecting when a print starts, this turns the light on and starts an external camera recording:

description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.p1s_printer_current_stage
conditions: []
actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: >-
              {{ trigger.to_state.state == 'auto_bed_leveling' and
              trigger.from_state.state == 'cleaning_nozzle_tip' }}
        sequence:
          - action: light.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data: {}
            target:
              entity_id: light.p1s_printer_chamber_light
          - type: turn_on
            device_id: 3013397c203ad10712498facb3f8a937
            entity_id: a399703227cad6110bdcd504f1bc97a8
            domain: switch
            enabled: true
        alias: Auto Bed Leveling -> Printing
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{ trigger.from_state.state == 'printing' }}"
        sequence:
          - type: turn_off
            device_id: 3013397c203ad10712498facb3f8a937
            entity_id: a399703227cad6110bdcd504f1bc97a8
            domain: switch
        alias: Done Printing
mode: single

This one overrides the "on/off" of the built-in light (which I've unplugged in the machine) with the strip of ws281x:

description: ""
triggers:
  - type: changed_states
    device_id: 14d9f437b0b78b5d027778d8425beecd
    entity_id: ba118446b6b9f51e97946a943630f397
    domain: light
    trigger: device
conditions: []
actions:
  - variables:
      p1s_lavalamp: |-
        {{set(states.light
          | selectattr('attributes.friendly_name', 'contains', 'Bambu P1S')
          | map(attribute='entity_id'))
          | list}}
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{ trigger.to_state.state == 'on' }}"
        sequence:
          - action: scene.create
            metadata: {}
            data:
              scene_id: bambu_printer
              snapshot_entities: "{{ p1s_lavalamp }}"
          - action: light.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data:
              effect: None
              rgbw_color:
                - 179
                - 179
                - 179
                - 255
              brightness_pct: 100
            target:
              entity_id: "{{ p1s_lavalamp }}"
        alias: Light on Lava off
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{ trigger.to_state.state == 'off' }}"
        sequence:
          - action: scene.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data: {}
            target:
              entity_id: scene.bambu_printer
        alias: Light off Lava on
mode: single