Insteon switchlinc dimmer operates with lovelace but not automation

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Greetings,

I have a number of Insteon devices which all work great with Home assistant except one. It is a switchlinc dimmer. It works fine if I switch it from the Lovelace interface but it will not work from and automation. I can see the automation run in the logs but it doesn’t operate the switch.

My automation is copied from a known working automation, I can with authority say it is not the automation, I’ve written a lot of them. I can include it here if required but…

Has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to debug the internal flow via logging?
All suggestion greatly appreciated.

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Definitely not normal behavior. Entity ID match in the automation action?

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As @Tediore suggests, check and double check your spelling.

Makes sure the automation is on.

Trigger it manually.

4

Yes the automation is on and when triggered manually it does nothing, however, if I replace the specific Insteon light with a different one in the automation, it all works fine. It’s this one specific light, it works fine with Pytomation ( a different home automation program) and as I say it works from Lovelace, I can toggle the light on or off and change it’s brightness.

Could this be a corrupt database?

Setting the Insteon log level to debug doesn’t show much at the best of times. I suppose the next step would be to rename my .homeassistant folder and start a new instance, create an automation and see if it works.

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I know you said you’re confident it’s not the automation, but maybe post it anyway.

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Sure I’ll post it. I just added a debug statement to insteon/light.py, in async_turn_on(), it spits out a debug when using lovelace but not when using the automation. I’m wondering if Insteon has got the device confused. When I look it up in the developer tools it shows as the light.switchlinc_dimmer_17_c0_c7 so that’s what I use.

By the way I can see the script run in the log.

- alias: Hallway on from sensor
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: button_pressed
    event_data: {"entity_id": "switch.office_desk_lamp", "state": "On"}
  action:
    service: light.turn_on
    data:
      entity_id: light.switchlinc_dimmer_17_c0_c7

Here is the output of print_im_all_link_database for reference.

2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon] ALDB load status is LOADED
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon] RecID In Use Mode HWM Group Address  Data 1 Data 2 Data 3
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon] ----- ------ ---- --- ----- -------- ------ ------ ------
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0012    Y     R   N      1 12.E3.54     2    21    55
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0011    Y     C   N      1 12.E3.54     2    21    55
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0010    Y     R   N      1 12.03.BB     1     0    55
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  000f    Y     C   N      1 12.03.BB     1     0    55
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  000e    Y     R   N    251 1F.A9.86     2    42    66
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  000d    Y     C   N    251 1F.A9.86     2    42    66
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  000c    Y     R   N      1 12.07.1F     1     0    55
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  000b    Y     R   N    251 17.BE.33     1    25    56
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  000a    Y     R   N    251 0E.7C.6C     1     0    51
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0009    Y     R   N    251 17.C0.7C     1    25    56
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0008    Y     C   N      1 12.07.1F     1     0    55
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0007    Y     R   N    251 12.06.58     1     0    55
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0006    Y     R   N    251 12.09.02     0     0     0
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0005    Y     R   N      0 12.20.B0     1     1    55
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0004    Y     R   N    251 1C.F9.A5     0     0     0
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0003    Y     R   N      0 1A.58.E8     1    25    64
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0002    Y     R   N    251 1E.39.5C     2    42    66
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0001    Y     C   N    251 1E.39.5C     2    42    66
2019-11-18 12:19:46 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.insteon]  0000    Y     R   N    251 12.20.B0     0     0     0
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@horga83 Not sure if you ever got this solved but here is an automation from my HA setup:

- id: Security_Sunset_On
  alias: Security Sunset On
  trigger:
  - event: sunset
    platform: sun
  action:
  - alias: Office Light
    data:
      entity_id: light.keypad_dimmer_46_2f_24_main
    service: light.turn_on

This definitely works. If you trigger your automation manually does it work?