New Home Assistant Automations and Scripts Running Modes Explained

Home Assistant Automations and Scripts are very useful and you can do a lot of cool stuff with them to make your life easier and your home smarter. But sometimes they seems a little bit complicated and hard to understand.

Now the latest #HomeAssistant release brings even more changes like the #Automations and #Scripts running modes.

But don’t worry I will explain them in details.

► TIME TABLE
00:00 Intro
00:30 What you will see in this video?
00:40 Automation Components
00:50 What are Triggers, Conditions and Actions?
01:30 Creating a helper
03:23 Home Assistant Automations Creation Methods
06:42 Explaining automations.yaml
07:24 Testing the Automation
08:11 Home Assistant Scripts
09:03 Quick clarification about Running modes
11:07 Credits to Phill @pnbruckner
11:43 Automations and Scripts Single Running Mode
13:16 Question Of The Day!
13:29 Automations and Scripts Restart Running Mode
14:39 Automations and Scripts Queued Running Mode
15:54 Do you want part 2?
16:15 Automations and Scripts Parallel Running Mode
16:40 Support my Work!

An automation usually consist of two or three different parts. These are: trigger, condition (which is optional) and action.

► CONFIGURATIONS
# Example configuration.yaml entry
input_boolean:
lightbulb:
name: Dummy light bulb
icon: mdi:lightbulb

# Example scripts.yaml entry
turn_the_light_for_5_sec:
alias: Turn the light for 5 sec
icon: mdi:lamp
mode: single
sequence:
- data: {}
entity_id: light.kitchen_lights
service: light.turn_on
- delay: 00:00:05
- data: {}
entity_id: light.kitchen_lights
service: light.turn_off

# Example automations.yaml entry
- id: '1595779628618'
alias: Back home
description: ''
trigger:
- entity_id: person.kiril
platform: state
to: home
condition:
- before: sunset
before_offset: 03:00:00
condition: sun
action:
- data: {}
entity_id: input_boolean.lightbulb
service: input_boolean.turn_on
mode: single

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