Question About Time Trigger Automations

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I would like to make sure I understand how time trigger automations work, does setting the minutes to “/16” as shown below mean the automation runs once an hour on the 16 minute mark (8:16, 9:16, 10:16) or does it mean it runs every 16 minutes inside the hour (8:16, 8:32, 8:48)

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I’m looking for a trigger that runs every 16 minutes (8:16, 8:32, 8:48) so if the screenshot above is not how you do that what trigger should I use?

thanks in advance.

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What you have posted is the closest basic trigger to run every 16 minutes inside the hour, but will also trigger on the 0 in addition to 16, 32, and 48. If you don’t want that you can use a template condition to reject the 0 trigger.

condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ trigger.now.minutes != 0 }}"
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That’s fine if it runs on the 0 minute mark.

Thanks for your help.