Hi,
Newbie to HA and I think I’m missing the obvious. Can’t find what I need online so help would be greatly appreciated.
I’m trying to close our Somfy blinds at sunset+30 but not later than 23:00. I therefore created two triggers: one for sunset+30, one for 23:00.
I don’t want to run the automation twice though. E.g. in the winter when sunset is at 16:00, I want the automation to run at 16:30 (sunset+30). However, I don’t want to run the automation again at 23:00 since it’s possible that we manually opened the blinds at 18:00 because of strong winds and they then shouldn’t close again at 23:00. (my wind sensor is not coupled to my smart home… yet…)
I was thinking of using the ‘last triggered’ state and make sure the automation only runs once a day. However I cannot figure out how to check if the automation already ran “today”.
Here’s my code, currently without the condition in there:
- id: '###'
alias: Close blinds (every day)
description: Close the blinds 30 min after sunset on any day but not later than
23:00
trigger:
- platform: sun
event: sunset
offset: '30'
- platform: time
at: '23:00'
condition: []
action:
- device_id: ###
domain: cover
entity_id: cover.room
type: set_position
position: 0
mode: single
I read about using a flow variable but understood this doesn’t “survive” a HA restart so I consider that a no-go. Any other ideas are more than welcome of course!
Thanks for your help 