Automation Triggers with state times

Configuration
1

Hi,

I have just made an automation with template triggers, but they only trigger when a certain condition has been the same for 72 hours, example below:

platform: template
value_template: >-
  {{ states('sensor.average_temperature_week') | float <=
  states('input_number.winter_temp') | float}} 
for:
  hours: 72
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 0
alias: Winter
id: Winter

Lets say 48 hours have passed and HA is restarted, what happens to this trigger? Does it start again from 0? Does it not trigger at all?

Thanks

2

It won’t fire until the template renders false then renders true for 72 hours.

3

Thanks for the reply I thought that might be the case.

Is there anyway to overcome this? I did think of making a helper that would have a timestamp of when the template is true and then use that in the automation (when now is more than 3 days from timestamp) but that seems like Im over complicating it.