Irrigation delay when it's raining

Configuration
1

Hey everyone, so i am quite new to this and quite enjoy home assistant. Now I wanted to make an automation, that when the weather service reports rain above 5mm (not fixed yet), the irrigation programm get’s stopped.
I am sure there are better ways to do this, but i also want to understand why it’s not working.
I did this in the UI, not in yaml but anyways, here is the automation i came up with, sadly it doesn’t work, it never get’s triggered, what am i doing wrong here?

thanks everyone!

alias: RainDelay
description: ""
triggers:
  - type: precipitation
    device_id: 9cafed4b07f63e84167e4f53aabf0938
    entity_id: d7e7a96aedd5ad90df6b933935764f34
    domain: sensor
    trigger: device
    above: 0
conditions: []
actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - type: is_precipitation
            condition: device
            device_id: 9cafed4b07f63e84167e4f53aabf0938
            entity_id: d7e7a96aedd5ad90df6b933935764f34
            domain: sensor
            above: 5
        sequence:
          - action: switch.turn_off
            metadata: {}
            data: {}
            target:
              entity_id: switch.enable_program
      - conditions:
          - type: is_precipitation
            condition: device
            device_id: 9cafed4b07f63e84167e4f53aabf0938
            entity_id: d7e7a96aedd5ad90df6b933935764f34
            domain: sensor
            below: 5
        sequence:
          - action: switch.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data: {}
            target:
              entity_id: switch.enable_program
mode: single
2

Hi, welcome to the forum!

Have you checked the automation traces? (right hand upper corner while viewing/editing that automation)

3

Maybe try to use wait for trigger in your automation and use for trigger your condition.

4

yes, problem is, it doesn’t seem to get triggered when the entity changes it’s state for some reason…

5

Try this:

trigger: numeric_state
entity_id:
  - sensor.your_rain_sensor_here
above: 0
6

what exactly do you mean by that?

7

You can try wait for trigger action.

8

thanks, i worked it out i think. i changed the whole trigger from device to entity. I chose the wrong trigger for this kind of automation, so now it’s

alias: RainDelayNew
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.wien_innere_stadt_precipitation
conditions: []
actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: numeric_state
            entity_id: sensor.wien_innere_stadt_precipitation
            above: 5
        sequence:
          - action: switch.turn_off
            metadata: {}
            data: {}
            target:
              entity_id: switch.enable_program
      - conditions:
          - condition: numeric_state
            entity_id: sensor.wien_innere_stadt_precipitation
            below: 5
        sequence:
          - action: switch.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data: {}
            target:
              entity_id: switch.enable_program
mode: single

that does the job, i guess i just need some kind of timer or something, so that the program doesn’t just start directly after the rain, because then everything would be wet anyway…