automation executed once

[frans0180 (Frans)]

I have made a notification if the battery is more than 80% then send a message to the Iphone. But I keep getting this message if the battery is above this value. How can I ensure that this only happens once?

alias: Peugeot CAR Batt is  >  80%
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: numeric_state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.psa_battery_level
    above: 80
conditions: []
actions:
  - device_id: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Peugeot batt is  >  80 %
mode: single

[AutoDIY (Ettore)]

Hello,

welcome.

I believe you should make an helper that changes state based on the battery value.

Here in this post there is a suggested solution:

Automation only trigger when numeric state changes from a value above 5 to below 1?

You’re describing a threshold sensor, it’s a type of helper you can add. You can set an upper limit of 3 and then a hysteresis of 2. It will turn on when it goes above upper+hysteresis and off when it goes below upper-hysteresis. Then just trigger when that sensor goes from on to off. To do it in an automation without the threshold sensor would be more complicated. You’d need to do one of the following: have two triggers, one for over 5w and one for under 1w. When it goes over 5w then set an …

Then you trigger the automation based on the binary sensor state, binary changes state from 0 to 1 (OFF to ON) message sent.
the state will be ON until the battery charge does not decrease so no other messages.
then the binary state will go OFF because the battery is discharged and the ON again when charge and so on.

hope it helps

[frans0180 (Frans)]

I’m going to try it thanks

[Nick4 (Nick)]

Hi Frans, welcome to the forum!

Strange because I’m doing the same with the exact same trigger and I only get that notification once…

[Troon]

At a guess, your sensor is going unavailable or giving spurious zero readings. Your automation should only run if the battery level changes from below 80 to above 80.

Have a look at the history for that sensor; and look at the automation traces. In particular, look at the from_state and to_state values.