Alerts activating every 270 minutes instead of 30?

Configuration
1

This alert used to work fine on the previous version of Hassbian. It would send an email or text every 30 minutes. After upgrading to the newest version of Hassbian, the alert now only sends a message every 270 minutes. Does anyone know why this happened?

alert:
  doors:
    name: Door Open
    entity_id: group.doors
    state: 'open'
    repeat: 30
    skip_first: True
    notifiers: 
      - gbsms
      - gbemail
2

No one else has seen this? No matter what I set repeat to, it only sends a message every 270 minutes.

3

I am using the alert component for every 5 minutes and it is working fine. Based on your configuration the first alert should not show up until 1 hour as you have skip_first: true then they should show up every 30 minutes after that. Mine works fine without skip_first maybe try making sure true is lowercase?

4

I’ll try removing skip first. If I set repeat: to 5, the first alert comes in 245 minutes (4 hours 5 minutes) after the alert is triggered. It seems the first alert is always 4 hours plus the repeat: amount.

5

hmm did u try checking your system time and make sure you have the correct time zone in home assistant and your pi.

6

Ah, that was it! My timezone was 4 hours ahead. For some reason that was causing alerts to be delayed by 4 hours. Other things were working at the right time though. HA must use the timezone inconsistently.

7

alert is a core component, different components have different integrations.