Creating an automation based on 'home precipitation' being less than x for xx hours - not working

[jackjourneyman (Jack)]

You might try having the automation trigger every time the state of the sensor changes, then you could put the 5mm etc in the condition section. There’s some thoughts about this is the Home Assistant Cookbook:

Automations #1: trigger only fires when it changes from not true to true

In an automation written to run when the heating drops below 20C, the trigger will fire when the temperature changes from 20 to 19. trigger: - platform: numeric_state entity_id: - climate.study for: hours: 0 minutes: 10 seconds: 0 below: 20 It will not fire again until the temperature rises above 20C and drops for a second time. A trigger is an event… Not a state, but a change of state. You can have more than one trigger: trigger: - platform: numeric_…