Automations stop on error

Configuration
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Is it possible to have an automation continue after an error?

My scenario when an automation is triggered:
Send pushover alert
Open garage door
Set switch state to off

What happens is if for some reason the first step fails then the automation stops at that point. If no error that I can detect and use. Needed me to manually debug it to figure the root cause and the automation behaviour out.

It would be nice if the automation exited with an error that could be detected somehow or if it continued onto the next action.

Maybe this is possible now?

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No it’s not and it can be really annoying.

I tried adding my actions that failed regularly (ios notifications) to a script and called that in the automation actions instead. Unfortunately I can’t remember if that worked. I changed to Telegram not long after.

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My issue is I need automations to carry on even if one part errors / fails. At the moment they just simply stop and I can’t figure out how to get an error from them. If they generated an abnormal termination error we could use this information to know about it. Feature request?

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break out the notification into it’s own script. It will error in the script but the script that called it will be fine.

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