One time automation

[radinsky]

Hi

Is it possible to configure the automation to run only one time only?
For example if I set alarm clock to morning, can it became disabled after fired once?

[ih8gates (Scott Reston)]

I do something similar with a input_boolean. You can see an example here:

Turn on lights with first motion in morning

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Knowing what I know now, I’d probably just have the last action in the automation set turn off the automation like @chrio did here:

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You could have an action turn the automations back on at, say, midnight to reset for the next day.