@steadi wrote:
Hello,
New to Home Assistant. I have a few, very basic automations (send message if “Garbage” in calendar” etc.), want to go more advanced, but having difficulty with my attempt + how I think about automations.
Goal: robot vacuum should clean the house.
Trigger: Day is Monday, Wednesday or Friday at 12pm.
Conditions: No one is home, vacuum hasn’t run in 24 hours before and the floor is cleared of children stuffs.
Is the above flow “normally” how automations are thought about / described? Because I have come to realise that a condition might as well be a trigger instead and the other way around. Do the above make sense?
Regarding the “clear floor”: I have a Ikea tradfri switch, which I wanted to use to change status of a sensor (via an automation) - the sensor would be the “Floor clear?” and state “On/Off”. Could I do this with a sensor without an actual input, but merely there for automation?
I realise this topic is both a specific question + help with what you could call “theory of automation” - hope that is okay.
Thank you for your time,
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