How to do <something> (e.g. notify me) next time <something> happens

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Hi there. I’d like to be able to have Home Assistant notify me the next time the temperature goes above 65F. I know how to set up an automation to do it every time, but I’m looking for a one time (ideally simple to set up, ideally able to set up by Assist or Voice) way to do this.

Is there a way people are doing this already I just don’t know about? some HACS or blueprint maybe? Or is this a feature request?

I can imagine saying to one of those commercial voice assistants “let me know when it gets warm outside” (because I want to close up the windows I just opened).

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I do something similar - the last action of the automation is to disable the automation. Therefore it only works (once) when I manually enable the automation.

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If you have the HomeAssistant app installed on your mobile, then this blueprint should do whatever you need.

Note that this is just a suggestion and I don’t use it personally. If you have any further questions, I suggest you post in the blueprint thread.

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The key that’s missing here is I want to be able to just add this alert or notification easily (e.g with an Assist command) and it should only happen the next time happens.

Both the blueprint and alert are powerful complicated affairs (and alert even requires firing up yaml editor).

I want a one-time quick solution… a timer is an example but I want a general case like you’d set up the trigger section of an automation.

The closest in this thread, I guess, is the automation that disables itself on completion.

Maybe I need a service that can easily create these self-destruct automations and have them delete themselves when run.