Inconsistent Automations on WIFI

Hello everyone :wave:

I have just started using HA and I wanted to run it on a Raspberry Pi 3 but that barely worked so I changed it to a Pi 4 with only 1GB of RAM; the difference was night and day, everything worked smoothly.
I am running HA on WIFI and I am starting to notice inconsistent behaviour with my first automation… sometimes it triggers and other times it doesn’t.
I want my TV to trigger my Goovee ambient lighting whenever it power on and off. It’s very simple to setup so I don’t think there is anything wrong with the automated settings.

Is it possible that I get inconsistent behaviour because it’s connected to WIFI or could it be that my Pi with only 1GB of RAM is struggling because of limited hardware resources? Thanks for reading!

Could we see your automation?

Sure I have added a screenshot of the automation. The second one is the same but it turns on my lights when the TV is turned on. Both Automations work around 70% of the time…it’s weird.

Connect it to a spare port on your router if you have and see if the behavior changes.

Thanks for your suggestion; I will try that for sure. I would have liked to keep my last LAN port free that is why I wanted to try HA via WiFi first.

If you are short of ports you can find pretty cheap switches.

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