I noticed that things were not working properly and I had only ZHA Attribute Updated event was fired notifications in my log book. the problem was listed here and here but both issues seemed to be closed off and i get the impression this was related to an update issue. I ended up working back on the problem and found that removing this from my configuration.yaml
recorder:
include:
domains:
- input_boolean
corrected the issue. thought I would contribute this to the community as I find it valuable in fault finding and making me dream big for my automations. please remove/edit if this sort of post is not appropriate.