A very simple automation not firing

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Hi all,

I have a very simple temperature automation, where I am supposed to receive a Pushbullet notification once the temperature rises above or falls below threshold:

I’m using Mysensors gateway to connect my sensors.

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Pushbullet is setup correctly; when I manually trigger the automation I receive a notification as I am supposed to. But when I manually set the temperature to above threshold (ex, 85) the “last trigger” is never updated (= not triggered).

Any idea?

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How can the temperature be above 80 and below 71 at the same time? If you wanna send the notification in both scenarios, you have to split up the trigger:

trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.nursery_11_1
    above: 80
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.nursery_11_1
    below: 71
3

Thanks. That worked. I was going by an example on HA tutorials page: https://home-assistant.io/docs/automation/trigger/#numeric-state-trigger

As you can see both Above and Below are listed together…

4

Listing above and below together is fine if a numeric_state has to be between two values. It doesn’t work in your case because you want one or the other to be true, not both.

In other words:

  • above < below : works, us a single trigger
  • above > below : can’t work, use seperate triggers
5

Makes sense. Thanks again.

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6

Happy to help :slight_smile: