So I have an automation for tracking my washing machine, and (intention) report via the app and alexa when it finishes.
The Washing Machine is running on a smart plug, so I get current measurement. Over 1.0A is used as my trigger.
I then wait for it to be below 0.2A for 4 minutes and that is meant to trigger the alerts. However it doesn’t.
If I remove the “wait for trigger” and “run actions”, it all works as expected. But if I leave “wait for trigger” in, it never fires.
I have tried changing the thresholds (current and time) for the purposes of testing, but no dice.
Any thoughts?
This might be no use for you, but I’ve seen a lot of examples of folk using device instead of state triggers recently. I’ve always used state triggers and have read multiple times that this is preferable for some reason. And I’m pretty sure I came across a post the other day very similar to this with someone else suggesting trying state triggers too. Perhaps worth a shot, and doing so means your automation will work if you change the plug (keeping the entity_id the same obviously).
Your trace indicates you triggered the automation manually so that makes it skip the trigger and proceed immediately to the action where the wait_for_trigger executed when it detected a value of 0.11 (which is below 0.2).