To give some context:
I have made bad design decision in the secondary suit in my house, and cheapened out on wiring separate 4" exhaust pipe from bathroom - instead I hooked it up in a T to the dryer, and then venting… lol
So, cheapest solution now, is to get a smart switch to turn on the powerful vent I have installed there whenever the dryer is on.
I have installed HomeAsstistant on my NAS (UnraidOS), installed HACS, installed GitHub - ollo69/ha-smartthinq-sensors: HomeAssistant custom integration for SmartThinQ LG devices
And created automation
which, in the logbook, once I turned off the dryer manually (testing…) it creates an even which has automation config which looks like this:
id: '1742328165816'
alias: Test Dryer Trigger
description: ''
triggers:
- type: changed_states
device_id: 6bd4f17e4a5afc9f11e3d918e58e57b1
entity_id: 3757a06f56325811edcb67d4a6df0db6
domain: switch
trigger: device
conditions: []
actions:
- action: notify.notify
metadata: {}
data:
title: Dryer toggled
mode: single
However I also see something like this in the same log book:
Which interestingly, has the entity
sensor.dryer_run_state
Ideally, I’d create a config that triggers on sensor.dryer_run_state == 'Drying' AND sensor.switch_bathroom_fan != 'On' then turn on switch
Same rule, when its out of ‘Drying’ state (or turned off, to cover edge cases), turn the switch off.
However I dont exactly see an easy way to do this on the visual editor, nor the sensor state to select:
How do I create the yaml sequence manually?
Also, any suggestions on a smart switch for the fan in the bathroom, that will also allow to turn on manually when the user needs to? Preferably one with humidity sensor built in as a fallback just in case the dryer state is not detected properly 
PS: I also did NOT receive the notify action from the event anywhere - on the HA alerts, or my phone (I allowed notifications) - this is just to do a POC that it works properly without being glued to the logbook
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