Automation with time condition always runs

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Hello,

I’ve created a really simple automation in HA core 0.118.5 which should turn on a light if the current time is before 08:00:00. I’ve created the automation via the gui editor.

When I trigger the automation manually by pressing the “trigger” button on the automation page after 08:00:00 the action still gets triggered.

If I press the button at 13:21:00 for example, the lights turns on. But it should stay off, because it’s after 08:00:00 and not before.

This is the resulting YAML from automatations.yaml:

- id: '160932516564'
  alias: timetest
  description: ''
  trigger: []
  condition:
  - condition: time
    before: 08:00:00
  action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 6a258c2847bb65646848
    entity_id: light.livingroom
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: 5
  mode: single

I just don’t know why the automation is always running the action, even if it’s after 08:00:00. Maybe its because I manually trigger the automation?

Thanks in advance for your help!

2

When you trigger an automation manually, all conditions are ignored and it goes straight to the action part.

3

There is an option to manually trigger an automation in the developer tools services menu that forces the service to not ignore conditions.

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4

Thank you two so much! That solved that problem. When I trigger the automation from the developer tools witht the “skip_condition” parameter set to false it seems to work.

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I did not know that !

Saves sticking the spare input boolean in as a trigger and then having to remove it later