time_pattern is not correctly triggering automations for me.
This does not work reliably:
alias: Indoor Air Quality Check
trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
minutes: "5"
condition:
(etc...)
Also tried this:
alias: Indoor Air Quality Check
trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
minutes: 5
condition:
(etc...)
Every 5 minutes I want to check if my indoor air sensor is above a certain value (set to 15 for testing). If so, I turn on an input_boolean which I use to show a notification on my dashboard.
However, after I clear the notification by setting the input_boolean back to off, I want the input_boolean to be set back to true if after 20+ minutes the air sensor is still above the set threshold (which I do with a template checking how long ago the state of the input_boolean was changed).
It will occasionally work with the time_pattern if I set it to 10 seconds (for testing), but not reliably, nor did setting it to 5 minutes work. I even tried removing the quotation marks around the 5, didn’t seem to make a difference.
I’m using a time_pattern since a numeric_state condition won’t trigger again until it’s dropped below the stated value and I want it to trigger again if the value is still too high after I’ve cleared it. As a secondary question, is there a better way to do this?
Here’s the full automation:
alias: Indoor Air Quality Check
trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
minutes: "5"
condition:
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.purpleair_inside_air_quality_index_epa
above: 15
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ as_timestamp(now()) -
as_timestamp(states.input_boolean.indoor_air_quality_particles_high.last_changed)
> 20*60 }}
action:
- service: input_boolean.turn_on
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.indoor_air_quality_particles_high
mode: single
This all works as expected if I use a custom sensor that changes every minute:
This works as I would expect:
alias: Indoor Air Quality Check
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- sensor.time_simple
condition:
(same code as above)
This sensor returns the time, like “5:23” and changes once a minute:
time_simple:
friendly_name: "Time Simple"
value_template: "{{ now().strftime('%-I:%M') }}"
icon_template: "mdi:clock"
I’m running the latest version of everything as of this post:
Home Assistant 2022.9.2
Supervisor 2022.08.6
Operating System 8.5
Frontend 20220907.0 - latest
