I have discovered, that when a new release is pushed, that my automations are always affected.
Timers are not running.
Also when an automation is waiting for a timer to expire (state change) and I am doing an update in between, the automation will never fire although this was announced in an earlier release this year.
Anyone else with same findings?
All automations are stopped when Home Assistant restarts. This is the way it has always been.
There is no way to save and restore a running automation.
This is why you should avoid long delays or long wait_for_triggers in automation actions.
If you share a problematic automation we may be able to offer an alternative solution.
I think the op means the announcement in the 2022.4 release note:
Ah. I see.
So the title should have been “Timers paused after new release”.
I’m not exactly sure of the situation that the OP is experiencing.
In one sentence they say that the timers aren’t running. So after a restart the timers are paused.
based on the newest update to timers my understanding is that should no longer be the case.
but in the next sentence they state that the automation “is waiting for a timer to expire” implying that the automation is actually running at the time the restart happens.
That is completely different than the timer pausing itself during restarts. It’s the automation itself that is the problem, not the timer.
on restarts all automations are interrupted so any automation that is currently “waiting on a timer to expire” will be cancelled so the actions won’t be run until the automation is triggered again.
So tom’s first post is likely correctly assessing the situation.
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Thank you all.