I am not sure where to ask this. Since the last update of either core or OS (absolutely not sure) I think time triggered automations and helpers do not work properly anymore. For example this thingy here is supposed to switch off the coffemaker, but didn’t do so since 3 days:
As you can see, I already switch off twice to be sure, so I assume it comes from the time trigger part. I also tried moving it away from exactly 08:00 (to prevent having too much going on at exactly 8am), didn’t help.
Also, an energy meter helper is supposed to reset to zero at midnight but didn’t do so twice or three times in a row.
Anybody having the same troubles since a few days?
No, I didn’t try removing, because I need the days part of it. I have many automations like this and it worked perfectly in the past. EDIT: I just found out, I CAN remove the time interval. If I remember correctly, that was not possible in the past.
How can I access ‘the trace’?
The scene just switches a Shelly to off. It works ‘manually’ and has been used hundreds/thousands of times.
What about the meter helper? As you can see, three days ago it started to reset not exactly at midnight. The delay increased further until today no reset happened at all:
Yesterday I noticed that other time triggered automations are also affected. The following shows a multiple socket outlet with a Shelly, that is supposed to be triggered every half hour (/30) and stay ‘on’ for 10 minutes. Again, the timing is completely off, it seems to go on and off as it pleases:
But in the meantime I tried restarting HA via Preferences->System-> Restart HA, to no effect.
Today I shut down the whole VM gracefully and restarted it. This seems to have solved it for now.
I will report back if I was wrong.
There seem to be states or events, that can completely throw off all time triggers. This is my observation, I do not know what caused it. Developers should be aware of this.