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<p>When all your devices are set up it’s time to put the cherry on the pie: automation. Home Assistant offers <a href="/components/#automation">a few built-in automations</a> but mainly you’ll be using <a href="/components/automation/">the automation component</a> to set up your own rules.</p>
<p>When all your devices are set up it’s time to put the cherry on the pie: automation. Home Assistant offers <a href="/components/#automation">a few built-in automations</a> but mainly you’ll be using the automation component to set up your own rules.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="the-basics-of-automation" href="#the-basics-of-automation"></a> The basics of automation</h3>
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<p>A service can be called to have Home Assistant perform an action. Turn on a light, run a script or enable a scene. Each service has a domain and a name. For example the service <code>light.turn_on</code> is capable of turning on any light device in your system. Services can be passed parameters to for example tell which device to turn on or what color to use.</p>
<h2><a class="title-link" name="creating-your-first-automation-rule" href="#creating-your-first-automation-rule"></a> Creating your first automation rule</h2>
<p>Before we dive deeper into what every piece of automation <em>can</em> do, let’s look at a simple automation rule: <strong>Turn on the lights when the sun sets</strong></p>
<p>In this example, we are defining a trigger to track the sunset and tell it to fire when the sun is setting. When this event is triggered, the service <code>light.turn_on</code> is called without any parameters. Because we specify no parameters, it will turn on all the lights.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">automation</span>:
<span class="key">alias</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">Turn on light when sun sets</span></span>
<span class="key">trigger</span>:
<span class="key">platform</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">sun</span></span>
<span class="key">event</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">sunset</span></span>
<span class="key">action</span>:
<span class="key">service</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">light.turn_on</span></span>
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<p>After a few days of running this automation rule you come to realize that this automation rule is not good enough. It was already dark when the lights went on and the one day you weren’t home, the lights turned on anyway. Time for some tweaking. Let’s add an offset to the sunset trigger and a condition to only turn on the lights if anyone is home.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">automation</span>:
<span class="key">alias</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">Turn on light when sun sets</span></span>
<span class="key">trigger</span>:
<span class="key">platform</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">sun</span></span>
<span class="key">event</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">sunset</span></span>
<span class="key">offset</span>: <span class="string"><span class="delimiter">&quot;</span><span class="content">-01:00:00</span><span class="delimiter">&quot;</span></span>
<span class="key">condition</span>:
<span class="key">platform</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">state</span></span>
<span class="key">entity_id</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">group.all_devices</span></span>
<span class="key">state</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">home</span></span>
<span class="key">action</span>:
<span class="key">service</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">light.turn_on</span></span>
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<p>Now you’re happy and all is good. You start to like this automation business and buy some more lights, this time you put them in the bedroom. But what you now realize is that when the sun is setting, the lights in the bedroom are also being turned on! Time to tweak the automation to only turn on the living room lights.</p>
<p>The first thing you do is to look at the entities in the developer tools (second icon) in the app. You see the names of your lights and you write them down: <code>light.table_lamp</code>, <code>light.bedroom</code>, <code>light.ceiling</code>.</p>
<p>Instead of hard coding the entity IDs of the lights in the automation rule, we will set up a group. This will allow us to see the living room separate in the app and be able to address it from automation rules.</p>
<p>So we tweak the config to add the group and have the automation rule only turn on the group.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">group</span>:
<span class="key">living_room</span>:
- <span class="string"><span class="content">light.table_lamp</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">light.ceiling</span></span>
<span class="key">automation</span>:
<span class="key">alias</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">Turn on light when sun sets</span></span>
<span class="key">trigger</span>:
<span class="key">platform</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">sun</span></span>
<span class="key">event</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">sunset</span></span>
<span class="key">offset</span>: <span class="string"><span class="delimiter">&quot;</span><span class="content">-01:00:00</span><span class="delimiter">&quot;</span></span>
<span class="key">condition</span>:
<span class="key">platform</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">state</span></span>
<span class="key">entity_id</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">group.all_devices</span></span>
<span class="key">state</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">home</span></span>
<span class="key">action</span>:
<span class="key">service</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">light.turn_on</span></span>
<span class="key">entity_id</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">group.living_room</span></span>
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<p>Christmas is coming along and you decide to buy a remote switch to control the Christmas lights from Home Assistant. You can’t claim to live in the house of the future if you’re still manually turning on your Christmas lights!</p>
<p>We hook the switch up to Home Assistant and grab the entity ID0 from the developer tools: <code>switch.christmas_lights</code>. We will update the group to include the switch and will change our action. We are no longer able to call <code>light.turn_on</code> because we also want to turn on a switch. This is where <code>homeassistant.turn_on</code> comes to the rescue. This service is capable of turning any entity on.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre><span class="comment"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="key">group</span>:
<span class="key">living_room</span>:
- <span class="string"><span class="content">light.table_lamp</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">light.ceiling</span></span>
- <span class="string"><span class="content">switch.christmas_lights</span></span>
<span class="key">automation</span>:
<span class="key">alias</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">Turn on light when sun sets</span></span>
<span class="key">trigger</span>:
<span class="key">platform</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">sun</span></span>
<span class="key">event</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">sunset</span></span>
<span class="key">offset</span>: <span class="string"><span class="delimiter">&quot;</span><span class="content">-01:00:00</span><span class="delimiter">&quot;</span></span>
<span class="key">condition</span>:
<span class="key">platform</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">state</span></span>
<span class="key">entity_id</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">group.all_devices</span></span>
<span class="key">state</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">home</span></span>
<span class="key">action</span>:
<span class="key">service</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">homeassistant.turn_on</span></span>
<span class="key">entity_id</span>: <span class="string"><span class="content">group.living_room</span></span>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="further-reading" href="#further-reading"></a> Further reading</h3>
<p>We went over the basics of creating a home automation rule. Now, go automate!</p>
<ul>
<li>Learn about the available <a href="/components/automation/#triggers">automation triggers</a></li>
<li>Learn about the available <a href="/components/automation/#conditions">automation conditions</a></li>
<li>Learn about the available <a href="/getting-started/automation-trigger/">automation triggers</a></li>
<li>Learn about the available <a href="/getting-started/automation-condition/">automation conditions</a></li>
<li>Learn about <a href="/components/script/">scripts</a> to help you trigger multiple actions and delays</li>
<li>Learn about <a href="/components/scene/">scenes</a> to help you set many entities at once to your liking</li>
<li>Setup a <a href="/components/#notifications">notification platform</a> to sent yourself messages</li>
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<li><a href='/getting-started/devices/'>Setting up devices </a></li>
<li><a href='/getting-started/customizing-devices/'>Customizing devices and services </a></li>
<li><a href='/getting-started/presence-detection/'>Presence Detection </a></li>
<li><a class='active' href='/getting-started/automation/'>Automation </a></li>
<li><a href='/getting-started/troubleshooting-configuration/'>Troubleshooting configuration.yaml </a></li>
</ul>
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<li>
<a class='active' href='/getting-started/automation/'>Automation </a>
<ul>
<li><a href='/getting-started/automation-create-first/'>Tutorial </a></li>
<li><a href='/getting-started/automation-trigger/'>Triggers </a></li>
<li><a href='/getting-started/automation-condition/'>Conditions </a></li>
<li><a href='/getting-started/automation-action/'>Actions </a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href='/getting-started/autostart/'>Auto-start Home Assistant </a>
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