Automation: Triggers only once, when conditions not met. When conditions change it does not retrigger

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I have a simple automation to turn on some core lights when it is approaching sunset but also on dark days when the illuminance falls below a certain value. I didn’t want it coming on while I was asleep so I put a condition on it not after 23:00 and not before 09:00.

Everything has been working fine but this morning I noticed that it was quite dark but the lights had not come on at 09:30. I looked at the traces for the automation and noticed that it had triggered (illuminance below 1400 for 2 minutes) at 08:56 and as that had not met the condition it hadn’t turned on the lights.

But the illuminance stayed below 1400 and even when the conditions changed i.e. after 09:00 the automation did not retrigger. So it seems like it will only trigger once and then not again if it stays below the 1400 illuminance level. How do I get it to trigger again even if the light level stays low?

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It would help if you share the automation.

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That’s what is supposed to happen. The trigger is light changing from 1401 to 1399. If the light then stays below 1400 the trigger doesn’t fire again.

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That’s how triggers and conditions work.

The automation only starts processing when a trigger becomes true. You’ll want to add the illuminance level as a condition, and a time trigger of ‘09:00:01’ too.

This has an example.

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I see, that makes sense.

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That link you posted was very helpful. Just duplicate the conditions and triggers.

Thanks.

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