How to use Trigger IDs in Home Assistant - Tutorial

Create advanced automations with Trigger IDs in Home Assistant. Using Trigger IDs will diminish the number of automations you need to create in Home Assistant. With Trigger IDs, you can handle multiple triggers and their conditions within only one automation!!! Stop creating too many automations, use Trigger IDs instead to create your smart home!

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Contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:26 General explanation automations
1:48 Create first automation with Trigger IDs
9:22 Create second automation with Trigger IDs

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[MattFacer]

Amazing! You’ve just halved my code! Cannot believe I didn’t know about triggers. I’ve got so many automations for on and off!! Thank you 🙏🏻

[tchrs]

This might be the single most useful tutorial on Home Assistant I've ever watched. Trigger IDs with Choose Action == better automations.

[EsotericArctos]

I was just playing with brand new automations, and I realised there is one thing people don't mention in tutrorials on Trigger ID's.
That is the Automation Mode. For an example, if you have an automation with delays in it, that part of the automation is still running, which means none of the other triggers will work if your automation is in a "Single" mode until that delay is over. As an example, if you have an action with a delay of 5 minutes, the automation is still running during that 5 minute action delay, which means in Single mode, your automation will not trigger at all in that action delay period. This means you really have to think very carefully on how the different triggers and actions correlate with each other and what mode your automation runs in.

[RobertWebbe]

Since you published this video, a lot has been changed in Automations. Can you please create an updated video about this topics?

[sleepessence]

You are creating some really good suggestions that seem to be missed by other presenters - well done and really useful - just subscribed

[HoistCrew]

Thanks! Being relatively new to HA, your tutorials are very helpful. My Automations have been simplified to use Trigger ID, thanks to you and this video.

[swerveshot]

Nice tutorial Ed! This will surely simplify a lot of my automations. Greetings by a fellow Dutchie.

[reachingzeus]

I can't thank you enough for your second sunrise/sunset automation! That works perfectly!

[tp-project]

This was a lot tidier than creating automations with a bunch of IF/ELSE conditions, especially when using several conditions to turn on during different time ranges of the day. Finally clicked how to use the "choose between two actions" in the correct way.

[HollyFredD]

Glad to see you back on the HA scene to provide such useful videos.
You've just made my day, I updated all my motion/contact detection based automations.

[stephenmarch]

In the same day, in about 15 minutes you taught me about Helpers & Trigger ID's to optimize my automations. Thank you so much, I didn't get a chance to really look in on the documentation and play around, and your videos are very well explained, very thorough and very much appreciated. You have a great presentation style. Cheers.

[kristofvandromme]

Na al meer dan een jaar HA te hebben, was dit iets wat ik zocht. 6 automatisaties herleid naar 1 of 2 eens je door hebt wat je wilt bereiken. Je video's zijn heel leerrijk en toch gemakkelijk uitgelegd. Het slechte nieuws is dat ik weer extra werk heb om alles te herschrijven maar dat is het waard! Geweldige thanks bovenbuur!!! Toppie!!! 😁😁😁

[thebatu]

I haven’t use automations for a while since i started using nodered but now i’m tempted to use it again with trigger ids. This is gonna make everything a lot tidier

[drkfiber]

Thank you so much for this tutorial as well as the how to use motion sensors properly. I must have tried 10 or 15 times to figure this out, and watched and read just about the same amount video/HA documentation, and blog posts. You are an excellent instructor.

[SGHassMan]

Thanks for a great video! That is the video I am looking for, I used to use 3 automations for notifying 15', 30' and 45' each hour. Now I can re-organize it into one automation. That's cool!

[carlopic]

Junkie, you are the best with your step-by-step explanations. I was going crazy trying to figure out how to do a single automation with 2 triggers and 2 actions.
Thank you :)

[rollababe]

Thank you! On week 2 with HA. I have HA Yellow Standard. Your tutorial has helped me set up successfully! I was going mad, but think certain motion sensors were not working for some reason. But have this set up in another room perfectly. Thanks so much.

[EngineerK]

Thanks for this. Working through my first sets of automations and was wondering how to combine on/off start/stop events into one automation. Good work.

[wizdude]

Thanks for this video. I haven’t seen any other HA people on YT talking about trigger id’s. I learned something new today. Cheers!

[DjBoomBoX]

J'ai particulièrement aimé l'exemple des lumières extérieurs à 9:30 du vidéo. J'ai hate de voir si ca va fonctionner ce soir et demain matin :-) Merci pour le vidéo! Maj 9 Jan 2023 am = oui tout à fonctionné! Je vais appliquer cela à d’autre automatisation qui sont en en double ! Encore merci !