As i understand from the documentation parent id is filled in when triggered by an automation. I’ve two triggers in my automation. A state trigger and a time_interval trigger. When the automation is triggered by the state trigger parent_id is not None. However, when the automation is triggered by …

Yeah, thats also what i found. However, if my light is changed while the automation is triggered by the time pattern trigger parent_id is None.

[image] sjofel: while the automation is triggered So you have long wait delays in your automation?

No, i do not. I’ve added a logbook log statement and i see the following: [image] As you can see home assistant “knows” it is triggered by a template but parent_id is None… The trigger when this happens is the time trigger (I’ve made a blueprint for this): trigger: - platform: state entit…

Made another simple automation for testing purposes: alias: New Automation description: test trigger: - platform: state entity_id: - light.living_room_standing to: null condition: [] action: - service: logbook.log data: name: state of light liv message: > i…

[image] sjofel: Made another simple automation for testing purposes: alias: New Automation description: test trigger: - platform: state entity_id: - light.living_room_standing to: null condition: [] action: - service: logbook.log data: name: state of light liv …

Use a the trace functionality to view all possible context options when automations run. It’ll be in the variables section. You won’t need write these tests all over the place. FYI, if logbook tells you what changed the light, that info will be in your automation somewhere. And when I say logboo…

I did this and as expected considering the linked github issues above parent_id is empty: [image] [image] My workaround now is creating triggered template binary sensor: - trigger: - platform: time_pattern seconds: "/30" binary_sensor: name: Thirty Second t…

You’re looking at the wrong automation. You should be looking at your other automation which should point to the timepattern one. The timepattern one will not have context because it’s a time pattern…

But i would like to know if the light is turned on by the automation or not. So i should look at the light context which is parent == none when turned on/off by a time trigger

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anon11644107 June 8, 2023, 4:26am 2

State.context to UI automation Feature Requests

This nugget was very useful, thank you! With this I can now differentiate the 3 ways a device’s state was changed. [Screenshot 2022-06-21 081430] Here is a sample implementation using the choose action: trigger: - platform: state entity_id: - switch.office condition: [] action: - choose: - conditions: - condition: template value_template: '{{ trigger.to_state.context.id != none }}' - condition: template value_template: '{{ trigge…

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