@JayElDubya wrote:
I assume what I’m trying to do is possible but could use a hand figuring it out. I am controlling a fireplace and even if either Wifi or HASS goes down, I would like it to timeout and turn off after a default set time. (I chose 2 hours for now.)
However, when everything is functioning properly I would like to instead timeout the fire based on a motion sensor in the living room (which is attached to a separate esphome contoller because of the physical location of where the signal demarcation point is) and timeout via a user-settable timer via a home assistant input_number sensor.
I created “turn_on_fire” and “turn_off_fire” scripts to do the associated tasking because their are ancillary tasks associated with each (status LEDs that need state changes, the switch (relay) for the fire, logging, state publishing, etc.) and all of that works great. I created a third script called “fire_with_timeout” that calls the turn_on_fire script, has the default 2 hour delay, then calls the turn_fire_off script…which seems to work just fine.
To do the motion timing, I created a global variable called timeout_minutes defaulting to 30 on boot. I also created a homeassistant binary_sensor to pull in the state of that sensor and a template sensor to try and timeout on that user-set value. Everything seems to be working with the exception of the actual templating of the timing. See pertinent yaml below. Unless there’s another way to do this, my problem is templating the “minutes” (don’t even know if I can). If I do “minutes: 30” it works okay (I think) but I would like that to be an adjustable delay via the aforementioned input_number sensor.
The line(s) I am tinkering with is comment out below because they don’t compile (either one). The esphome validator says it expects a float.
Any ideas?-J
binary_sensor: - platform: homeassistant id: motion entity_id: binary_sensor.living_room_motion on_press: then: - if: condition: switch.is_on: relay then: - logger.log: format: "Motion detected while fire on, resetting timer for %f minutes." args: [ 'id(timeout_minutes)'] - script.stop: fire_with_timeout - script.execute: fire_with_timeout else: - logger.log: "Motion detected but fire is off." - platform: template id: timeout_template lambda: 'return id(motion).state;' filters: - delayed_off: # minutes: !lambda "return id(timeout_minutes);" # minutes: !lambda "return id(timeout_minutes).value;" # minutes: !lambda "return id(timeout_minutes).state;" minutes: 30 on_release: then: - if: condition: switch.is_on: relay then: - logger.log: "Motion timeout reached while fire on, turning off fire." - script.execute: turn_off_fire else: - logger.log: "Motion timeout reached but fire is off." script: - id: turn_on_fire then: - switch.turn_on: relay - switch.template.publish: id: fire state: ON - homeassistant.service: service: light.turn_on data: {"entity_id": "light.fp_left_indicator"} - id: turn_off_fire then: - script.stop: fire_with_timeout - switch.turn_off: relay - switch.template.publish: id: fire state: OFF - homeassistant.service: service: switch.turn_off data: {"entity_id": "switch.fireplace_fan"} - homeassistant.service: service: light.turn_off data: {"entity_id": "light.fp_left_indicator"} - script.stop: fire_with_timeout - id: fire_with_timeout then: - script.execute: turn_on_fire - logger.log: "Default timer (2hr) reset" - delay: '02:00:00' - logger.log: "Default (2hr) timeout reached. Turning off fire" - script.execute: turn_off_fire
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