Clean room

The Clean room action sends a Shark IQ robot vacuum to clean one or more specific rooms, instead of cleaning the whole home. The available rooms are the ones you have set up in the Shark Clean app.

Use this action if you want targeted cleanups. For example, create an automation to clean only the kitchen after dinner without running a full cleaning cycle.

Using this action from the user interface

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

To clean specific rooms from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. From the search box, search for and select Shark IQ: Clean room.
6. Under Targets, choose the vacuum entities to control.
7. Enter the Rooms to clean.
8. Select Save.

Options in the UI

Using this action 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.

In YAML, refer to this action as sharkiq.clean_room. A basic example looks like this:

action: sharkiq.clean_room
target:
  entity_id: vacuum.my_vacuum
data:
  rooms:
    - "Entry"
    - "Living Room"

This sends the Shark IQ vacuum vacuum.my_vacuum to clean the entry and the living room.

Options in YAML

Targets of the action

This action requires a target. The target is the object of the action. You can point the action 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 run the action on every matching vacuum entity behind that target.

• Entity: one specific vacuum entity, such as vacuum.living_room.
• Device: every vacuum entity that belongs to a device.
• Area: every vacuum entity in a room or area.
• Floor: every vacuum entity on a floor.
• Label: every vacuum entity that shares a label.

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

Good to know

• Write each room name exactly as it appears in the Shark Clean app. To find the names Home Assistant understands, check the Rooms attribute of your Shark robot vacuum entity, for example in the Developer tools.
• If you use the area selector in the UI, format the area names to match the names in the vacuum’s Rooms attribute.

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Developer tools > Actions, search for this action, fill in the fields, and select Perform action. You see what happens on your actual entitiesAn 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] without writing a line of YAML.

More examples

Real scenarios where this action shows up in automations and scripts. Copy any example and adapt it to your setup.

Automation: clean the kitchen and dining room after dinner

Create an automation that, after dinner, sends the vacuum only to the kitchen and dining room, skipping a full-home cycle.

• Trigger: Time: 20:30
• Action: Shark IQ: Clean room
  • Targets: Kitchen and dining room

alias: "Clean kitchen and dining room after dinner"
triggers:
- trigger: time
  at: "20:30:00"
actions:
- action: sharkiq.clean_room
  target:
    entity_id: vacuum.shark_iq
  data:
    rooms:
      - "Kitchen"
      - "Dining Room"

Still stuck?

The Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.