Take Your Home Assistant Automations to the Next Level!
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2023
- In this video, I demonstrate three different methods of using conditional logic to make decisions in your automations, including condition blocks, choose blocks, and if...then...else logic.
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The standard If-Then blows "Choose" out of the water. It's so much easier to understand...
DEFINITELY far easier to understand, I agree. Choose does have it's applications, but 99% of the time the exact same thing can be accomplished through creative use of If..Then. :)
Thanks for watching!
Like the new video changes! Nice summary of the decision logic approaches.
Awesome, thank you! I'm trying to improve a little bit with every video, so it's great to hear that viewers like the changes. Thanks for watching!!!
I like your shirt and the new intro!
Looks great! Digging the intro!
We live in the North East US. Yes, Oil, for heating. So I have currently setup the ha-multiscrape to monitor 4 different oil providers for their pricing and now it will push me notifications if the price for any one of them changes.
I really am interested in the conditional notifications, if connected to wifi send this notification else send this one, as that would help cut down on the type of notifications I am getting.
That's a really cool use! I have some stuff I'd like to scrape as well, but it's so far down my list.. Between videos, and the pile of equipment sitting here that I still need to install (and make videos about), it's tough to add more to that list. Lol maybe one day I'll have more free time...
Thanks for watching!!
Chapter marker would be great! Awesome vid though!
Yeah.. I've added them to some videos, but I really do need to do better at that. Thank you for the reminder, and thanks for watching!
@@fasthowto you’re welcome, thanks for the reply
Can you have conditions only (and not have a trigger)? I have 6 conditions that must be false (using an And & block) to turn off a fan, but don't know if a trigger must be specified.
How would the automation run then?
Tried conditions only and it won't trigger. So, added a periodic time trigger (to run once a minute) and now it works.
@@waynekremer1649I don't understand.. Surely one of the 6 things that you are referring to as a condition can be used as a trigger, rather than attempting to trigger it once a minute? What are your conditions?
@@fasthowto I have 6 rooms each with a CO2 monitor in them. When one of the 6 rooms gets too high of a CO2 reading, then it triggers the house fan. When all of the 6 rooms are below the CO2 amount, I turn the fan off. How would I do this with one of the items as a trigger?
I'm sure somebody will dream up a (more complicated) way to do it all in a single automation, but the simplest way to do it is like this:
Automation 1:
Triggers: 6 different triggers, one for each of your sensors. The trigger is the sensor crossing the threshold from acceptable to high.
Action: Turn on the fan.
Automation 2:
Triggers: 6 different triggers, one for each of your sensors. The trigger is the sensor crossing the threshold from high to acceptable.
Conditions: 6 different conditions, one for each of your sensors, in an AND configuration. Check to make sure all 6 sensors are at acceptable levels.
Action: Turn off the fan.
Alternatively, you could configure a template sensor that monitors all 6 of your CO2 sensors, and just use that as the trigger for both turn on and turn off. Would look much cleaner in the interface, and would only be a single thing to edit if you added a 7th sensor. If any of the 6 are high, the template sensor would turn on. When they are all acceptable, it would turn off. That would be how I would do it *now*, personally, since I know how to use template sensors. There's some examples in my Dashboard December series. I use them for all sorts of things, like my battery monitor automation, to change colors of icons on my dashboard, to send high temp alerts, all sorts of stuff.
Even with template sensors, I still prefer to have discrete on/off automations. Makes it much easier to modify individual pieces of a routine than it otherwise would be if I had to dream up a ton of complex logic every time.
So I'd have a "Fan On" automation that would turn on the fan when the template sensor turned on, and a "Fan Off" automation that would turn off the fan when the template sensor turned off. That way, I could make different things happen on each side of the routine as well, such as flashing the lights when the fan turned on to alert to poor air quality so you can go outside for 20 minutes or something. Or I could flash the lights red when the fan turned on, then flash them green when the fan turned off.
Easy. :)