Door is closed

The Door is closed condition passes when one or more targeted doors are currently closed. Use it when an automation should continue only after a door is shut.

This condition is useful for safety checks and routines that depend on a closed door, like starting a robot vacuum only after the patio door is shut or arming the house only after every entry point is closed.

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 Door is closed.
5. Select what you want to check. Under By target (see Targets), pick the area your door is in, like your entryway or garage. 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 door must have stayed closed 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.

In YAML, refer to this condition as door.is_closed. A basic example looks like this:

condition: door.is_closed
target:
  entity_id: binary_sensor.front_door

This passes when binary_sensor.front_door is currently closed.

Options in YAML

YAML sometimes provides additional options for more complex use cases that are not available through the UI.

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 door entity behind that target.

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

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

• This condition works with door contact sensors and door covers, like garage doors, as long as they use the door device class.
• Entities in the unavailable or unknown state are ignored when Home Assistant evaluates the condition.
• With Any, the condition passes if at least one available targeted door is closed.
• With All, the condition passes only if every available targeted door is closed. If every targeted door is 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.

Automation: start robot vacuum only after patio door has been closed for 10 minutes

If pets go in and out through the patio door, you may not want the robot vacuum to start while that door is still being used. This automation waits for a scheduled time, then checks that the patio door has been closed for at least 10 minutes before starting the vacuum.

• Trigger: Time
• Condition: Door is closed
• Target: Patio door
• For at least: 00:10:00
• Action: Vacuum: Start

alias: "Start vacuum after patio door has been closed"
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "10:00:00"
conditions:
  - condition: door.is_closed
    target:
      entity_id: binary_sensor.patio_door
    options:
      behavior: any
      for: "00:10:00"
actions:
  - action: vacuum.start
    target:
      entity_id: vacuum.downstairs

Automation: arm the house at night only when every exterior door is closed

At bedtime, this automation arms the house only if the front door, back door, and garage door are all closed. That keeps you from arming the house while an entry point is still open.

• Trigger: Time
• Condition: Door is closed
• Target: Front door, back door, and garage door
• Condition passes if: All
• Action: Alarm control panel: Arm away

alias: "Arm house only when all doors are closed"
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "23:00:00"
conditions:
  - condition: door.is_closed
    target:
      entity_id:
        - binary_sensor.front_door
        - binary_sensor.back_door
        - cover.garage_door
    options:
      behavior: all
actions:
  - action: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away
    target:
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm

Still stuck?

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.

Related conditions

These conditions work well alongside this one:

• Door is open: Tests if one or more doors are open.