I have one sensor that tends to restart due to power loss.
There is automation triggering due to the reboot.
I’d like to set up a condition in the automation, telling it to NOT fire in case the last reboot time is below 5 minutes from current time.
I can see there are conditions in the automation, one of them (Value of a date/time helper or timestamp-class sensor) seems to be like the thing I am looking for, but I cannot formulate it properly.
The current automation (without the time condition) looks like this:
alias: Garage door opened notification
description: ""
trigger:
- type: turned_on
platform: device
device_id: XXXXXX
entity_id: binary_sensor.switch1
domain: binary_sensor
condition: []
action:
- service: telegram_bot.send_message
data:
message: Garage doors opened at {{ now().strftime('%H:%M') }}
target: XXXXXX
disable_web_page_preview: true
mode: single
Thanks for the tip, but it does not seem to work. For some reason, even if the sensor restarted, it still reports ~5 minutes ago - seems like it counts restart time of home assistant, not of the sensor.
Oh! sorry, didn’t read your post carefully enough. My fault.
As I doubt you have any entities recording the sensor reboot time, take a look at the sensor history and the automation trace. Is it being incorrectly triggered by a change from unavailable or unknown to on? If so, rewrite your trigger like this, getting rid of all the device cruft:
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.switch1
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
(and remove my HA restart condition).
That way, it will only trigger if it goes on from a prior state of off.
Here’s an automation trace from my system, showing a binary sensor going from off to on: