New Automation issues

Configuration
1

I changed my automation file yesterday to the new requirements and this morning and last night I realized that they don’t seem to be firing. For example, I have certain lights turn on each morning and before the changed the automation worked great. Afterwards I have to manually trigger the automation for it to work. Below is my script that I use:

- id: automatic_morning_time
  alias: 'Automatic Morning Time'
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '6:30:00'
  condition:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_5_0
      state: 'on'
    - condition: time
      weekday:
       - mon
       - tue
       - wed
       - thu
       - fri
  action:
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_5_0
      data:
        brightness: 255
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: light.kitchen
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: light.gameroom
2

Hello.

Can you please try:

- id: automatic_morning_time
  alias: 'Automatic Morning Time'
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '06:30:00' #Military time format
  condition:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_5_0
      state: 'on'
    - condition: time
      weekday:
       - mon
       - tue
       - wed
       - thu
       - fri
  action:
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_5_0
      data:
        brightness: 255
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: light.kitchen
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: light.gameroom

Issue should be with the fact that your time trigger was not in military time format.

3

also looks like your automation is set to only trigger if the light is already on, so if the light is off at 06:30:00, this automation will not trigger

4

That was one of my first automation pieces. I’m not sure why I had that in there. I’ve removed it and we’ll see what happens tomorrow.

5

… And finally, have you double checked that the automation is switched on, as moving them around tends to switch them off.

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6

I’ve updated to military time so we’ll see what happens tomorrow.

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7

Fingers crossed!

8

Now that I notice, any reason why you are using service homeassistant.turn_on instead of light.turn_on?

I have a similar automation as yours, and I’m using successfully light.turn_on.

9

No reason other than that’s just what I saw first.

10

Try using the Development Services to run both services manually just to check that it works properly.

11

I was able to manually trigger but when the the automation was supposed to trigger nothing happened. I’m waiting for a real scenario to make sure everything is working. I believe the main issue was the hidden feature initial_state: True was really set to False.

12

I cleaned up the code and made sure the initial status was set to true and it worked this morning.

Thanks.