Google Time Travel Automation help

Configuration
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Hi, I’m trying to get a simple notification from google time travel. But it doesn’t trigger. Here the automation. Have I to use a time trigger?

- id: alertTimeToWork
  alias: Time to Work
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.Home_To_Work
    above: 5
  condition:
  - condition: time
    after: '06:00:00'
    before: '08:20:00'  
  action:
  - service: notify.telegram
    data_template:
      message: 'Much traffic on the road to work. {{ states("sensor.Home_To_Work")
        }} min. '

And here the google time travel object:

- platform: google_travel_time
    name: Home_To_Work
    api_key: !secret GOOGLE_API_KEY
    origin: zone.home
    destination: zone.work
    data_template:
      scan_interval: >
        {% if is_state('sensor.traveltime2work.state', 'true') %} 300
        {% else %} 600
        {% endif %}
2

I don’t think that will work. should be :slight_smile:

        {% if is_state('sensor.traveltime2work', 'true') %} 300
        {% else %} 600
        {% endif %}
3

Thanks, but that should affect the if else block only, shouldn’t it? So if every 300 or 600 seconds (the latter will be 3600) the notification should be sent.
Anyhow I will correct it and check if it change.
As of now the notification is sent only on restart.

4

sorry Having had a quick glance at your code that’s what I picked up first :slight_smile:
I’ve set up my notification slightly differently, in case you want to have a go:

- alias: Tell Lolo of a long drive home
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.lolo_to_home
  condition:
    - condition: time
      after: '15:30:00'
      before: '18:00:00'
    - condition: template
      value_template: '{{ states.sensor.lolo_to_home.state |int(0) >= 65 }}'
    - condition: template
      value_template: '{{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states.automation.tell_lolo_of_a_long_drive_home.attributes.last_triggered | default(0)) | int > 3600)}}'
  action:
    - service: notify.gmaillolo
      data_template:
        message: 'There is a long drive home ({{states.sensor.lolo_to_home.state |int(0)}} min)...'
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5

Don’t worry you’ll never know, often is just a “detail” that stops a process to work, so I’m not excluding that mine will work after your correction, and I surely will try yours, cause that’s more or less the outcome I’m looking for. It’s just that I was trying to write it from scratch! So I hope to debug it first. :slight_smile:

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6

I’ve fixed that error and even changed the platform from numeric_state to state and then used an if block, still the automation triggers only on HA restart.
I now think the google time travel doesn’t work as I thought, apparently it doesn’t trigger by “itself”, so I need to find a trigger, like a time trigger, and put the sensor into the condition block. Any suggestions? I mean, it’s the right way or not?

7

the above automation works well for me so it does trigger.
Is your google sensor moving from below to above your 5min target?
Can you share your automation

8

The automation is the one I posted in the first post. But to answer your question no, my sensor is always above 5 minutes target. I thought to put a lower value to make it always trigger. Does it trigger only when it moves from below to above the value? I thought it would trigger each time the sensor pinged google server and found that the value was above.
Basically what I’m trying to do, for now, is to have a message that tells me the duration regardless the above value in a window of time.