Input select and input slider as trigger not working

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1

Has something changed recently? I’ve had a quick look around and can’t find anything that would affect this. I also can’t say when this became a problem with the lighter evenings, but I first noticed it yesterday when I was on 45.1 and it’s still here in 46.

I have some input_selects on a card with my living room lights to trigger scenes, and selecting one of the scenes used to trigger an automation that sets the scene:

alias: trigger_scene_livingroom_bright
trigger:
  platform: state
  entity_id: input_select.living_room_scenes
  to: 'Bright'
action:
  service: scene.turn_on
  entity_id: scene.livingroom_bright

Activating the automation manually works.

Setting the input select fires the event (or so it says in the little black pop-up), but fails to run the automation.

Any ideas?

2

Should add…

No errors in the logs, in fact no relevant entries in teh log file at all. Log book shows that the input_select was changed to ‘bright’ (or whichever option was selected), and (as expected) does not show the automation firing afterwards.

3

if the input select is changed to ‘bright’ maybe testing against ‘bright’ instead of ‘Bright’ might work.

4

Sorry, that was lazy typing on my part, it is Bright with a capital B and is consistent through the various files that would be affected.

5

I’ve just realised that the only automation I have that is triggered by an input_slider is no longer working either - must be a change in how triggers for input booleans and sliders are handled in automations? Perhaps because it’s just a state change with no ‘from’ or ‘to’ or whatnot?

6

I just set this up in my environment, and it works fine.
Here’s the config:

input_select:
  living_room_scenes:
    name: scenes
    options:
     - Bright
     - Dim
    initial: Bright
    icon: mdi:panda

and here’s the automation

- alias: trigger_scene_livingroom_bright
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_select.living_room_scenes
    to: 'Bright'
  action:
    - service: notify.ios_tr7p
      data:
        message: "now its bright"
7

Hmmm - ok - thanks for doing that :thumbsup:

The only difference between yours and mine was that I had quotes around the options in the input select - I’ve removed the quotes and rebooted and it’s still not triggering, so it’s obviously not an issue with the code, and an issue with my instance of HA.

Anybody got any ideas how I can fix that without a full reinstall. I’ve literally just upgraded to 0.46, so the HA core package has only just been reinstalled. Any funky commands I can run to make whatever has borked rejuvenate itself?

…or better, anyway to work out why it’s not triggering on my instance?

8

Don’t know if this helps, but I’m still on 0.45

9

Arrrrggghhh - I’ve sussed it - I just un-hid all the affected automations so I could manually trigger them etc to try and work out what was going on and they were all turned off! I have no idea why, or when, or how they’ve got turned off, but they were, and now I’ve turned them back on they’re working!

Thanks for trying to help me though @treno , it’s much appreciated :thumbsup:

10

Cheers for this, I just spent 20 mins trying to work mine out before seeing this, same here, for some reason the automatons linked to the input select were off, all automatons now altered to;

initial_state: on