I attempted to set up an automation with a time pattern as Hours: /3 and starting at 23:00. It did not trigger. Does this mean it will only trigger after 3 hours from 23:00? So at 2am it will proceed with the actions? I thought it would action at 23:00 and then trigger in another 3 hours. Didn’t seem to be the case.
Now I have it modified so it checks every minute and turns on a switch with a delay, switches off and another delay of 2 hours 45 mins.
I’m sure this is not the correct way but before it was not working. These appears long wnded but does seem to work.
Any advice would be appreciated. I’ve a discussion about this before but encountered these issues.
With the triggers at those specific times you can probably delete the conditions, but having said that, it’s belt and braces just in case you add a 16:00 trigger without thinking
According to pnbruckner (aka God, though he won’t like that ! )
After 23:00 actually means => 23:00 and before 17:00 means =< 17:00
Edit: Admittedly this only applies to - time platform trigger and the space is limited hence ‘after’ rather than ‘at or after’ (a bit of a clumsy mouthful, but English is a poor medium to concisely describe these things)