Not sure if this is only me or something else. A while ago I setup some notifications in the event someone left the garage door open for over 5 minutes. It used to work without any issues, and then I performed an upgrade about 6 months ago and ever since it repeats notifications as if the garage open and closes.
Now if I open the garage and say leave it open for 3 minutes and then close it, I get a few emails stating that the garage was open, close, open and close again, etc. It makes no sense really.
Here is the code I use:
notify:
- name: notify_email
platform: smtp
server: 192.168.1.14
port: 25
timeout: 15
sender: [email protected]
recipient:
- [email protected]
sender_name: Home Assistant
debug: true
garage_door25:
name: Garage Door-25 is open
done_message: Garage Door-25 was closed
entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_door_25
state: 'on'
repeat: 5
can_acknowledge: False
skip_first: False
notifiers:
- notify_email
Attached is a picture showing the garage entity status and as you can see there is not flapping, it is either open or close.
Any ideas?
Any way to do this with an automation also instead of manual entries in configuration.yaml?
Thanks,
Paul