Are alerts working?

Configuration
1

Noticed a couple days ago that alerts weren’t sending notifications to me anymore.

Thought it may have been package splitting, templates, or invalid character, so I created a new one. Copied from my notify.yaml and a different notifier but no dice. I see the alert start but I receive nothing. 87 docs added templates, but didn’t see anything on the 88 docs.

Running 88.0

notsure_door:
  name: 'alert notsure door open'
  message: "NOTICE - Notsure door has been open for minutes!"
  done_message: "NOTICE - Notsure door is closed."
  entity_id: binary_sensor.notsure_win
  state: 'on'
  repeat:
      - 1
      - 2
  can_acknowledge: True
  skip_first: True
  notifiers:
    - walrus_email
2

A bit of clarification. I am receiving notifications from automation actions, and checked that the timezone is correct.

Changed skip_first to false and received a notification, but setting to true does nothing.

Updated to 89.2. Running on Ubuntu via Docker.

4

Goodness gracious…

After leaving the sensor open overnight, I was receiving a notification once every 5 hours and 1 minute. With DST active, I’m at GMT-5…

The System Health area listed the correct timezone, but forgot to set timezone as a volume when looking at my compose file. I had a feeling I had overlooked something simple.

Namely:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro