I have both an Alert and an Automation setup to tell me when a door is open. The automation always emails me after 5 minutes and works fine. The alert doesn’t always email me. When it does, sometimes it’s 4 hours after the door state changes to “open”. Am I doing something wrong?
sensor basementdoor:
platform: mqtt
name: Basement Door
state_topic: sensor/switch600194013092
qos: 0
alert:
basementdoor:
name: Basement Door Open
entity_id: sensor.basement_door
state: 'open'
repeat: 2
skip_first: True
notifiers:
- gremail
automation basementdoor:
alias: Basement Door Status
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: sensor.basement_door
state: 'open'
for:
minutes: 5
action:
- service: notify.gremail
data:
title: Home Assistant Door Open!
message: Basement was left open! (automation)