Automation triggers even though time condition should prevent it

Configuration
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I need another pair of eyes on this automation.

I have a weird issue, where my Samsung tv will automatically turn on and off again once every night, usually around 12:30 am.
Unfortunately, I have an automation that gets triggered by the TV.

The simplest solution was to add a time condition to my automation. However the automation still gets triggered every night.

Is there an error in the config?

id: chillout_when_tv_on
alias: Chilloutmodus aktivieren wenn abends TV an
trigger:
  platform: state
  entity_id: media_player.fernseher
  to: "on"
condition:
  - condition: time
    after: "19:30:00"
    before: "23:00:00"
action:
  - service: script.chilloutmodus

Thanks for your help

Lukas

2

I take it the script works fine inside those hours ? What system are you running, as I’m Ubuntu box didn’t ‘spring’ forward this year. I didn’t notice till one late night, and was most confused that it was before my bedtime, but I’d been asleep…

3

The cause for your Tv turning on without interaction is probably the automatic search for firmware updates.

The reason for the condition not working is probably that you are providing a (single item) list of conditions, whereas the documentation does only allow this nested below „or“ and „and“ condition. Try this:

condition:
  condition: time
  after: "19:30:00"
  before: "23:00:00"

Also, check time and timezone, especially when running HA inside a Docker container.

4

I am running Home Assistant (hass.io) on a RPi3. The time seems to be correct, judging by the timestamps in the log files. Not sure where else I could check the system time.

I will try changing the condition entry to a single item. There are however examples in the documentation for lists of conditions:

5

This can’t be issue, HA doesn’t care whether you provide a single item or a list containing only one item

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6

so script.chillmodus starts even though the time is outside 19:30 - 23:00?

Can you please try ro use this as an action and check if it shows the correct time?

action:
  service: persisent_notification.create
  data_template:
    message: "Die aktuelle Zeit ist: {{ now() }}"
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7

Well, that is interesting :slight_smile:

image

Thank you very much!
A couple of weeks ago I switched the main configuration from yaml to the UI, that is probably where the issue occured.

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