How to invoke automation at value update

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#1

Can anybody give me a hint, what I am doing wrong. I want to invoke a MQTT Message when a Value (mileage of my car) is changing. I made thist config, but it only works at the configured time at 23:59h. There is no update when the mileage is going up.

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Any hints what I did wrong, may be the uper and lower values, but they make not realy sense in this context.

Thanks in advance

#2

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Can you please share the YAML config for this automation?

Correctly formatted for the forum (see point 11 here).

#3

Here you can find the YAML Code of the automation:

alias: 'Audi KM Stand Änderung '
description: Audi KM Stand Änderung zu IP Symcon
trigger:
  - type: value
    platform: device
    device_id: f702140dd6727c59e1d75c9879f72301
    entity_id: sensor.audi_a6_55_tfsie_mileage
    domain: sensor
    above: 1
    id: sensor.audi_a6_55_tfsie_mileage
  - platform: time
    at: '23:59'
condition: []
action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      payload_template: '{{ states.sensor.audi_a6_55_tfsie_mileage.state }}'
      topic: /home-assistant/audi/mileage
mode: single
#4

This trigger:

  - type: value
    platform: device
    device_id: f702140dd6727c59e1d75c9879f72301
    entity_id: sensor.audi_a6_55_tfsie_mileage
    domain: sensor
    above: 1
    id: sensor.audi_a6_55_tfsie_mileage

will only fire when the value crosses from below 1 to above 1. Going from 4 to 5 for example will not cause it to fire.

If you want to trigger on every change, use this trigger:

  - type: value
    platform: state
    entity_id: sensor.audi_a6_55_tfsie_mileage

This will fire every time the state (or any of the sensor’s attributes) changes. If the attribute changes are an issue we can add a condition to reject that.

#5

I changed to this:

alias: 'Audi KM Stand Änderung '
description: Audi KM Stand Änderung zu IP Symcon
trigger:
  - type: value
    platform: state
    entity_id: sensor.audi_a6_55_tfsie_mileage
  - platform: time
    at: '23:59'
condition: []
action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      payload_template: '{{ states.sensor.audi_a6_55_tfsie_mileage.state }}'
      topic: /home-assistant/audi/mileage
mode: single

And get the error message: Message malformed: extra keys not allowed @ data[‘type’]

#6

Sorry I edited the device trigger incorrectly, try this:

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: sensor.audi_a6_55_tfsie_mileage
  - platform: time
    at: '23:59'
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#7

Perfect, now it works! THX