I have a few automations to control many devices in my home, like lights, heaters and a fireplace valve. I wanted to know if there was a way to check, post automation action, if the action succeeded? For example, this morning, I noticed that my fireplace was still off, even though the automation ran successfully at 5 AM; this is a random occurrence since it has worked 95% of the time since I programmed it.
Basically, I want the action to run, and then have HA check the state of the device a few seconds later to ensure it worked; if not, run the action again until it works. I thought of creating a new automation that listens for the first automation running successfully and then runs.
This is my current automation:
alias: Fireplace On
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: time
at: '05:00:00'
- platform: state
entity_id: group.family
from: not_home
to: home
- platform: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.openweatherdetailed_temperature
below: '2'
condition:
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.openweatherdetailed_temperature
below: '2'
- condition: state
entity_id: group.family
state: home
- condition: time
after: '04:59:00'
before: '21:31:00'
- condition: state
entity_id: climate.fireplace
state: 'off'
action:
- device_id: 3a934fde44e100dbab83f72180951938
domain: climate
entity_id: climate.fireplace
type: set_hvac_mode
hvac_mode: heat_cool
mode: single
Is this something that templates would allow me to do? If so, I’d like some guidance!
Bumping this thread. I would like for HA to send me a mobile notification (to be added once I solve the below problem) if/when the action fails after 20 attempts. I have created a few counters for my different automations and I am calling them as an “until” condition. The part I can’t figure out is how to create a follow-up action if the counter hits 20 (aside from creating a subsequent automation to listen for the counter to hit 20, send the notification and then reset the counter to 0):
alias: Fireplace On
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: time
at: '05:00:00'
- platform: state
entity_id: group.family
from: not_home
to: home
- platform: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.openweatherdetailed_temperature
below: '2'
condition:
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.openweatherdetailed_temperature
below: '2'
- condition: state
entity_id: group.family
state: home
- condition: time
after: '04:59:00'
before: '21:31:00'
action:
- repeat:
until:
- condition: state
entity_id: climate.fireplace
state: heat_cool
- condition: state
entity_id: counter.fireplace_on
state: '20'
sequence:
- service: counter.increment
target:
entity_id: counter.fireplace_on
- device_id: 3a934fde44e100dbab83f72180951938
domain: climate
entity_id: climate.fireplace
type: set_hvac_mode
hvac_mode: heat_cool
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 5
milliseconds: 0
mode: single