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Hi!
For example, we have a simple automation.
Sunset - light on
Sunrise - light off

Today sunset at 7:15PM, but at 7:00PM - power outage.
For example, power restored at 9pm.

My question is: how to solve the issue for restoring missed event at 7:15pm?
The same issue with sunrise event as well.

NB: checking for status “is on” + time period every N min is ugly. IMHO.

Thank you!

WBR,
O.

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home assistant fires this event when it’s restarted. you can trigger off of that instead of checking every minute. you’d still have to check the expected state tho.

trigger:
  - platform: homeassistant
    event: start
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HASS on the UPS. =) It doesn’t care =) It can work above 10h

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it’s OK. Thank you Taras.
but. If I have for example 2 lights.* 3 switch.* I should create groups entity that represents multiple entities of the same type and handle lights and switch together via and
is_state('light.exterior', 'on') and is_state('switch.exterior', 'on')

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If you want, you can do it like this:

alias: 'Scheduled Exterior'
trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    attribute: elevation
    below: 1.8
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    attribute: elevation
    above: -3.1
  - platform: homeassistant
    event: start
action:
  - variables:
      e: "{{ state_attr('sun.sun', 'elevation') | float }}"
      entities:
        - light.one
        - light.two
        - switch.one
        - switch.two
        - switch.three
      entities_on: >
        {{ expand(entities) | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on')
          | map(attribute='entity_id') | list }}
      entities_off: >
        {{ expand(entities) | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'off')
          | map(attribute='entity_id') | list }}
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - "{{ e <= 1.8 }}"
          - "{{ entities_off | count > 0 }}"
        sequence:
          - service: homeassistant.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: "{{ entities_off  }}"
      - conditions:
          - "{{ e >= -3.1 }}"
          - "{{  entities_on | count > 0  }}"
        sequence:
          - service: homeassistant.turn_off
            target:
              entity_id: "{{ entities_on }}"
    default: []

EDIT

Correction. Added missing | to templates for entities_on and entities_off.

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OMG! yep, Sir. I forgot what we can define entities via list.
Thank you so much!

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you miss |

{{ expand(entities) | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on') |
          map(attribute='entity_id') | list }}
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