Garage door is closed

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

This condition is useful for security checks and routines that depend on a closed garage door, like arming an alarm or turning on climate control only after the opening is sealed.

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 closed.
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 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 garage_door.is_closed. A basic example looks like this:

condition: garage_door.is_closed
target:
  entity_id: cover.garage_door

This passes when cover.garage_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 garage_door entity behind that target.

• Entity: one specific garage_door entity, such as garage_door.living_room.
• Device: every garage_door entity that belongs to a device.
• Area: every garage_door entity in a room or area.
• Floor: every garage_door entity on a floor.
• Label: every garage_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 garage door contact sensors that use the garage_door device class and garage door covers that use the garage 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 garage door is closed.
• With All, the condition passes only if every available targeted garage door is closed. If every targeted garage 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: arm the garage alarm only when the garage door has been closed for 10 minutes

If you have created a bedtime 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] separately, this automation waits for that helper to turn on, then checks that the garage door has stayed closed for 10 minutes before it arms the alarm.

• Trigger: User-created bedtime helper turns on
• Condition: Garage door is closed
  • Target: Garage door
  • For at least: 00:10:00
• Action: Arm alarm away

alias: "Arm the garage alarm only when the garage door has been closed for 10 minutes"
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.bedtime_mode
    to: "on"
conditions:
  - condition: garage_door.is_closed
    target:
      entity_id: cover.garage_door
    options:
      for: "00:10:00"
actions:
  - action: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away
    target:
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.garage_alarm

Automation: start the garage fan only after the garage door has been closed for 5 minutes

If you use a fan to clear heat or fumes from the garage, this automation waits until the garage door has been shut for 5 minutes before it starts the fan.

• Trigger: Time
• Condition: Garage door is closed
  • Target: Garage door
  • For at least: 00:05:00
• Action: Turn on switch

alias: "Start the garage fan after the garage door has been closed for 5 minutes"
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "18:00:00"
conditions:
  - condition: garage_door.is_closed
    target:
      entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_door_contact
    options:
      for: "00:05:00"
actions:
  - action: switch.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: switch.garage_fan

Still stuck?

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Related conditions

These conditions work well alongside this one:

• Garage door is open: Tests if one or more garage doors are open.