Automations continuing to actions despite conditions not passing

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Hey guys,

I have been trying to add a boolean switch to create a Vacation Mode in my home which then stops certain automations from running eg: heating

When I add this to the conditions of my automation and test it, it works as expected ie: “condition did not pass” when Vacation Mode is on.
However very strangely, when I run the automation, it somehow bypasses this condition and moves straight to the actions! it is so frustrating and I don’t know why???

Any help would really be appreciated.
thank you

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If you mean manually running the automation, then that skips all triggers and conditions and just runs the actions.

If you run the automation from Developer Tools → Services and choose the automation trigger service there is an option to not skip the conditions.

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‘WOW!!! I cannot believe how simple the answer was. And I searched for an hour on this forum trying to find it before writing this post.
Thank you so much @tom_l for the answer, that was the problem.’

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