Automations stopped working - but work individually

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Hello
For some reason one of my light automations has stopped working

several lights both zigbee and lightwaverf dont come on when say the sun sets but when I go into the automation and run the individual automation to turn the light on it works, anyone else have this issue

Thanks

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Post your automation YAML, so we can see the code and triggers.

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Thanks for the reply, sorry but I deleted the Automation and set each lamp up with its own to see if I can isolate, if that doesnt work (i’ll know tomorrow night) I’ll setup up again and try to recreate then post , but thank you

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Running an automation manually only runs the action part - trigger and conditions are ignopred. Maybe that’s where the problem was.

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Ok so the 4 lights that are not turning off\on with an automation are no on individual automations 3 of them did not turn off last night at 23:30 like they were supposed to

1 set of lights are controlled by a frient plug and that worked the other 3 are all Innr bulbs here is the yaml for one of them

alias: Lights Monster Lamp 1 Off
description: “”
trigger:

  • platform: time
    at: “23:30:00”
    condition:
    action:
  • service: light.turn_off
    data:
    transition: 10
    target:
    entity_id:
    - light.signify_netherlands_b_v_lwa004_huelight
    mode: single

the common denominator here is the INNR lamps but how can all 3 be faulty

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What is that character in the condition line?
It might be the cause of it.

Format your post as the guidelines here says: How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question - #3

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Hello

The condition is blank ie no condition is set

I have just deleted the maybe it will work now, i’ll give that a go

Thanks

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Ok so I deleted the from 2 of the new automations reset the time to 9:30 and 9:45
both switched off

So fingers crossed its solved will recreate the full automation to run tonight then see what happens

dont understand where\why are suddenly a problem though

anyway thanks fingers crossed I’ll know at about 23:30 tonight :wink:

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I do not know what that square is, but if it is in a condition, then HA will read it as something that needs to be true for it to trigger and if it is just a square, then only a developer will know how it reacts to that.

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Sorry its not a square its [ ] open and closed square brackets

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ahhh, you really should format your post as mentioned earlier.
The post editor change it to a square, so we have no change to see the real characters.

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In the YAML it now shows null instead of [ ]

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Delete the line completely if you do not use it.

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And please post your automation with the proper formatting.
This might be an issue of a bad indentation and we can not see the indentations without that formatting.

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So I tried to add 2 Innr lights that had stopped responding and they could not befound so I decided to buy a new sonoff zigbee stick E ie latest one flashed the firmware and rebuilt my network, Innr bulbs connected straight away but the auomation below does not trigger the garden lights for some reason, could you take a look and tell me what I have done wrong please

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alias: Lights On All
description: “”
trigger:

  • platform: sun
    event: sunset
    offset: “+10”
    action:
  • service: light.turn_on
    data:
    transition: 60
    brightness_pct: 10
    target:
    entity_id: light.bedroom_lamps
    device_id:
    - 13b83a1cc6d90d0842447a8c3f2f26a0
    - fe2192c8c2fe2038b8ce103d70abec4f
  • service: light.turn_on
    data: {}
    target:
    entity_id: light.coach_lights
  • service: switch.turn_on
    data: {}
    target:
    device_id: 792d00699d6a3c1dcf4ddfbd7b298925
    mode: single

thanks

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Strange garden lights is missing from the yaml but showing in the visual editor

Ill investigate further thanks

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Try to avoid using device ids.
Use entities instead, like light, switch, sensor, binary_sensor and so on.

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