Sensor check in specific modes or at specific time

[josh]

James generally has you pointed in the right direction, but I think the trigger and condition would be swapped based on your specific example.

The trigger would be the mode changing to asleep.

Then you could setup an IF condition for the garage being open and as James showed in his screenshot, optionally restrict it to night time only.

And here’s some good info on triggers and conditions:

@josh

One thing to keep in mind is that all triggers are effectively OR’ed together since they are always events .

IF conditions are used to check the state of one or more things. So even if something wasn’t part of the event that triggered the rule, the rule will figure out what current state the item(s) are in so it can evaluate the IF condition.

By default, IF conditions are AND’ed together (eg. when ALL of the conditions are met), but you can change the IF condition to OR (eg. when ANY of the conditions are met).