wait until event

[Zombie-aaargh]

Describe your idea

I'd like a wait feature, but it waits until a specific state is changed rather than for a period of time.

Why is this exciting?

this would act like an event trigger but could be placed anywhere in a script or automation to pause everything until something happened. it could also be combined with a wait in one block. more intentional than a condition because it would be triggered on a particular change rather than a state equalling something. it would allow for I determinant waiting periods

Potential use cases

wait until an llm has responded before acting on the response, which might be a long or a short period. wait until my motion sensor changes State, the which depends on people in the real world leaving the room, before doing a followup action.

Anything else?

like a trigger but intentionally to delay the next action, or to chain actions together each one being delayed until the previous one has been completed, especially if it depends on something outside of home assistant. such as an ftp server or a media server.

[mib1185]

There is already the wait for a trigger action which should solve your use case. You can also use the repeat until action with a simple delay action

[mib1185]

But did you now find the search on the homepage and get the same results?

[Zombie-aaargh]

if I go to the search from your link yes. I was obviously looking in the wrong place.

[mib1185]

Just out of curiosity, where did you look before? Just want to get, if there is something miss-leading the HA user interface or some other place.

[Zombie-aaargh]

I was on a different device. I typed something like home assistant wiki in the address bar and just clicked on what I thought was the official page. I must just have gone to some sponsored link by mistake. Just me being careless I guess.

[mib1185]

ah ok. You can always check Settings > About > Help menu or have a look for the question mark icons all over the place in the frontend to get more specific help - eq. in the automation editor, when adding an action: