Garage door is open

The Garage door is open condition passes when one or more targeted garage doors are currently open. Use it when an automation should continue only if a garage door is still open at the moment the automation runs.

This condition is useful for reminders, security checks, and routines that should warn you when a garage door has been left open.

Using this condition from the user interface

If you prefer building automations visually, Home Assistant walks you through this condition step by step. You pick what to check, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To use this condition in an automation:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. In the And if section, select Add condition.
4. From the search box, search for and select Garage door is open.
5. Select what you want to check. Under By target (see Targets), pick the area your garage door is in, like your garage or driveway. You can also select a floor, a device, a specific entity, or a label.
6. Under Condition passes if (see Behavior), pick Any or All.
7. Under For at least, enter how long the garage door must have stayed open before the condition passes.
8. Select Save.

Options in the UI

Using this condition in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required. For how an automation is built in YAML, refer to Automations in YAML.

In YAML, put the settings that are specific to this condition under options. Keep target, if the condition uses one, and general settings such as alias and enabled at the top level, next to condition.

In YAML, refer to this condition as garage_door.is_open. A basic example looks like this:

condition: garage_door.is_open
target:
  entity_id: cover.garage_door

This passes when cover.garage_door is currently open.

Options in YAML

Targets of the condition

This condition requires a target. The target is the object that Home Assistant will check. You can point the condition at a single entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more], a device, an area, a floor, or a label, and Home Assistant will evaluate every matching garage door sensor or motorized garage door behind that target.

• Entity: one specific garage door sensor or motorized garage door, such as cover.garage_door.
• Device: every garage door sensor or motorized garage door that belongs to a device.
• Area: every garage door sensor or motorized garage door in a room or area.
• Floor: every garage door sensor or motorized garage door on a floor.
• Label: every garage door sensor or motorized garage door that shares a label.

You can also select different target types in one condition. For example, you can add a specific entity and an area as targets in the same condition to check both of them at once.

To learn which entities Home Assistant includes for a device, area, floor, or label, and how it handles several entities, refer to Automation targets.

Behavior with multiple targets

When you target more than one entity (or select an area, floor, or label that contains several), the Condition passes if option controls how the results combine:

• Any (default): the condition passes if at least one of the targeted entities matches. For example, if you check three smoke sensors and only one of them detects smoke, the condition still passes. This is useful for questions like “is there smoke anywhere in the house?”
• All: the condition passes only when every targeted entity matches. For example, if you check the same three smoke sensors, the condition passes only once all three report cleared. This is useful for “is the entire house safe now?” checks, so your automation does not send an all-clear while one room still has a reading.

Good to know

• The target must be a garage door contact sensor with the garage door device class or a garage door cover with the garage device class.
• Garage doors that are unavailable or unknown are skipped. With Any, the condition passes if at least one of the other targeted garage doors matches. With All, it passes if all the other targeted garage doors match. If all targeted garage doors are unavailable or unknown, All passes and Any fails.

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Go to Settings > Automations & scenes, open an automation, and add this condition. Trigger the automation with and without the condition met, and watch whether it continues or stops.

More examples

Real scenarios where this condition gates an automation. Copy any example and adapt it to your setup. In the visual editor, select the UI options listed in the example or paste the YAML code.

Automation: remind you at bedtime if the garage door is still open

If you have created a helperA helper is a virtual entity you create inside Home Assistant. It is not backed by a physical device. Helpers store values, track state, or do calculations that your automations and dashboards need. [Learn more] to mark bedtime, this automation can use it to check whether the garage door is still open before you settle in for the night.

• Trigger: State changed
  • Entity: Bedtime mode helper
  • To: On
• Condition: Garage door is open
  • Target: Garage door
• Action: Send a notification message
  • Target: My Device (notify.my_device)

alias: "Remind me at bedtime if the garage door is still open"
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.bedtime_mode
    to: "on"
conditions:
  - condition: garage_door.is_open
    target:
      entity_id: cover.garage_door
actions:
  - action: notify.send_message
    target:
      entity_id: notify.my_device
    data:
      title: "Garage door is open"
      message: "The garage door is still open at bedtime."

Automation: alert you if the garage door is still open after you leave home

When Frenck leaves home, this automation checks whether the garage door is still open. If it is, Home Assistant sends an alert so Frenck can close it before getting too far away.

• Trigger: Zone left
  • Target: Frenck
  • Zone: Home
• Condition: Garage door is open
  • Target: Garage door
• Action: Send a notification message
  • Target: My Device (notify.my_device)

alias: "Alert me if the garage door is open when leaving home"
triggers:
  - trigger: zone.left
    target:
      entity_id: person.frenck
    options:
      zone: zone.home
conditions:
  - condition: garage_door.is_open
    target:
      entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_door_contact
actions:
  - action: notify.send_message
    target:
      entity_id: notify.my_device
    data:
      title: "Garage door is open"
      message: "The garage door is still open, and you just left home."

Still stuck?

To find out why the condition didn’t pass, check it live in the automation editor, and look at the trace of the run. For details, refer to Testing automations. For common problems and their solutions, refer to Troubleshooting automations.

If that doesn’t help, the Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the condition you’re using and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

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