Light is immediately turning back off but the automation is only turning lights on

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1

I’m calling a Device action to turn on a light at a given time. When I look into the automation trace, I see that the automation is immediately turning the light back off again, even though I’m not telling it to.

Device is RGBgenie ZB-1003 via DeConz.

Automation:

alias: light timer ON
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: '06:00'
condition: []
action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: <id>
    entity_id: light.light_strip
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: 100
mode: single

Trace information:

"logbookEntries": [
    {
      "name": "light timer ON",
      "message": "has been triggered by time",
      "source": "time",
      "entity_id": "automation.light_timer",
      "context_id": "",
      "when": "2021-05-31T13:00:00.024359+00:00",
      "domain": "automation"
    },
    {
      "when": "2021-05-31T13:00:00.046318+00:00",
      "name": "light strip",
      "state": "on",
      "entity_id": "light.light_strip",
      "context_entity_id": "automation.light_timer",
      "context_entity_id_name": "light timer ON",
      "context_event_type": "automation_triggered",
      "context_domain": "automation",
      "context_name": "light timer ON",
      "message": "turned on"
    },
    {
      "when": "2021-05-31T13:00:01.879370+00:00",
      "name": "light strip",
      "state": "off",
      "entity_id": "light.light_strip",
      "context_entity_id": "automation.light_timer",
      "context_entity_id_name": "light timer ON",
      "context_event_type": "automation_triggered",
      "context_domain": "automation",
      "context_name": "light timer ON",
      "message": "turned off"
    }
  ]
2

I must say I’m not familiar with your actions, but it’s odd that it would turn it on and then off again.

How does this work…?

  action:
    - service: light.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id:
          - light.light_strip
      data:
        brightness_pct: 100
3

I’ll give that a try! It seems to work ok so far, hopefully it keeps working consistently.

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