Hello all! Noticed my automations have been acting strange, especially since upgrading to 2026.3. Now some of the issues were strangely resolved by duplicating the automation, removing the old one and it seemed to work again. But i’ve got an automation that seeminly will not execute the action, des…

I think i found the issue. Very stupid of me :sweat: I had another automation that basically had the same trigger to turn on the soundbar, this was in case the soundbar was off when wanting to play music. I did not think throughly when making that automation, so the 2 IR sending actions (one for so…

Firstly what does the trace say? Secondly try to use entities instead of devices for triggers. [image] Why and how to avoid device_ids in automations and scripts Community Guides Background When you start writing automations, a device trigger seems the obvious choice. E…

The trace just mentions that it successfully ran, looks the same as when i do it manually. Full automation trace: { "trace": { "last_step": "action/0", "run_id": "1d4872a783dc9eb66168b39660de8f92", "state": "stopped", "script_execution": "finished", "timestamp": { "star…

Hi, just an idea out of experience: try by adding small time delays between the actions. Sometimes the next action is fired while the current is not finished which can make an automation to fail overall.

You need to trigger it with this sort of thing. trigger: state entity_id: - media_player.your-player to: - playing

Hi, good that it got solved! Also: please take the time to mark the post that holds the solution. You do that by selecting the three dots under the post: [image] Then select the check box: [image] By doing so: this thread can be useful to other users as well (this thread comes up as solution…

Sorry for the late reply. Have done so, thanks!

Automation will not trigger despite tracing

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Arh March 21, 2026, 9:25am 2

Firstly what does the trace say?

Secondly try to use entities instead of devices for triggers.