How to retry an automation later if it doesn't meet a condition?

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I have an automation which turns off the Smart Plug powering my AV system at a specific time unless it is being used. It detects if my Apple TV status is not ‘playing’ as one of the conditions:

  - condition: not
    conditions:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: media_player.living_room_appletv
      state: playing

If it doesn’t run because it fails to meet this condition, I’d like it to try again every 15 minutes.

Is this possible?

2

Is there a reason you can’t add a second trigger for the media player state changing from playing? That is generally the preferred method rather than using continuous polling.

3

I don’t want the power to be turned off if I press pause for a few minutes. I guess what I am trying to acheive is:

If the time is after 11pm
and the Apple TV has not been in the “playing” state for 10 minutes
then turn off the smart plug.

It’s the after 11pm bit I don’t know how to achieve. Also, if I wanted the time to be after midnight, then I would want the rule to only trigger between say 1am and 5am to avoid things getting turned off during a long pause during daytime.

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trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: " 23:00:00"  (or Whatever your specific time is)
  - platform: state
    entity_id: media_player.living_room_appletv
    from: playing
    for: "00:10:00"
condition:
  - condition: time
    after: "23:00:00"
    before: "05:00:00"
  - condition: not
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: media_player.living_room_appletv
        state: playing
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Thanks.

If it hits 11pm or the Apple TV has stopped being in playing state for more than 10 minutes, then it will check the conditions.

If it is between 23:00 and 05:00 and the Apple TV is not playing, then the action is triggered.

Will try. I have some other ideas now in case it doesn’t meet my need.

Thanks very much indeed!