Hello!
A strange problem appeared last week; this sensor updates no longer trigger my automation in any way: numeric value or template.
I have an automation to track the MAX value of illuminance; this value corresponds to sunny weather, so my automation announces that today is a sunny day and saves this as a calendar event.
But from the last update, my automation is no longer triggered, no matter what.
I’ve created a separate sensor to be double-sure I covered everything from my side.
It will register changes as soon as I restart the Zb2MQTT addon or HA completely.
I’ve tested everything, and I can force this automation to work if I directly trigger it by the time of the day 18:00 to check if there WAS a peak in illuminance during the day.
Are there any changes to how it now triggers?
Why don’t any of the template checks won’t pass, even when template debug shows them all true?
Custom sensor:
Code
sensor:
# Rain Sensor Illuminance (from raw value)
- platform: statistics
name: "Rain Sensor Illuminance Raw Max"
entity_id: sensor.rain_illuminance_raw
unique_id: rain_sensor_illuminance_raw_max
state_characteristic: value_max
sampling_size: 1000
max_age:
hours: 24
Statistics
And the graph is working as expected:
Code
type: custom:plotly-graph
title: Інтенсивність Світла
entities:
- entity: sensor.rain_illuminance_raw
name: Світло
filters:
- filter: i=1
- resample: 1m
- exponential_moving_average:
alpha: 0.1
show_value: true
line:
width: 1
color: rgba (255, 200, 100, 100)
logarithmic_scale: true
hours_to_show: 240
refresh_interval: 15
grid_options:
columns: 12
layout:
dragmode: pan
height: 450
margin:
b: 120
legend:
itemwidth: 80
xaxis:
rangeselector:
"y": "-.3"
buttons:
- count: 3
step: hour
- count: 6
step: hour
- count: 12
step: hour
- count: 1
step: day
- count: 2
step: day
- count: 7
step: day
- count: 14
step: day
- count: 30
step: day
config:
scrollZoom: false
doubleClickDelay: 600
Log
The activity is ok:
Last updated: recently and just fine.
Debug
Automation
And the automation:
Note: disabled parts are for debugging.
Code
alias: Sunny day calendar event
description: |-
Register a sunny day in Sunny Day calendar.
Check if event is already exists.
triggers:
- trigger: numeric_state
entity_id:
- sensor.rain_sensor_illuminance_raw_max
above: 6100
id: sunny_day_max
- trigger: numeric_state
entity_id:
- sensor.rain_illuminance_average_20min
above: 6100
id: sunny_day_max_2
- trigger: numeric_state
entity_id:
- sensor.rain_illuminance_maximum_today
above: 6100
id: sunny_day
enabled: true
- trigger: template
value_template: >-
{% if states('sensor.rain_sensor_illuminance_raw_max')|float > 6100 %}{{
True }}{% endif %}
id: sunny_day_trigger
- trigger: template
value_template: "{{ states('sensor.rain_sensor_illuminance_raw_max')|float > 6100 }}"
id: sunny_day_trigger_2
- trigger: template
value_template: "{{ states('sensor.rain_illuminance_raw')|float > 6100 }}"
id: sunny_day_trigger_3
- trigger: template
value_template: "{{ states('sensor.rain_illuminance_average_20min')|float > 6100 }}"
id: sunny_day_trigger_4
- trigger: time
at: "18:00:00"
id: check_the_day
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- input_boolean.test_input_boolean
from: "off"
to: "on"
id: from_off_to_on
enabled: false
conditions: []
actions:
- variables:
today_is_sunny_day: 0
- if:
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.rain_illuminance_maximum_today
above: 6100
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.rain_sensor_illuminance_raw_max
above: 6100
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ states('sensor.rain_sensor_illuminance_raw_max')|float > 6100
}}
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ states('sensor.rain_illuminance_average_20min')|float > 6100 }}"
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ states('sensor.rain_illuminance_raw')|float > 6100 }}"
then: []
enabled: false
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- sunny_day
- from_off_to_on
- sunny_day_max
- sunny_day_max_2
- sunny_day_trigger
- sunny_day_trigger_2
- sunny_day_trigger_3
- sunny_day_trigger_4
sequence:
- action: calendar.get_events
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: calendar.sunny_day
data:
start_date_time: "{{ now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0) }}"
end_date_time: "{{ now().replace(hour=23, minute=59, second=59) }}"
response_variable: today_is_sunny_day
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{% for event in
today_is_sunny_day["calendar.sunny_day"]["events"] %}{{ true
}}{% endfor %}
then:
- action: persistent_notification.create
metadata: {}
data:
title: Sunny day
message: >-
Today was a sunny day!
Event created
{% for event in
today_is_sunny_day["calendar.sunny_day"]["events"] %}
{{ event.summary }} started: {{ event.start}}<br>
{% endfor %}
- action: script.turn_on
metadata: {}
data:
variables:
media_id: >-
media-source://media_source/local/HA_Media/uplight-piano-short.mp3
content_type: audio/mpeg
message_to_announce: сьогодні був сонячний день!
target:
entity_id: script.notification_and_tts
else:
- action: calendar.create_event
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: calendar.sunny_day
data:
summary: Sunny day
description: Sunny day
start_date_time: "{{ now() }}"
end_date_time: "{{ now() + timedelta(minutes=5)}}"
- action: script.turn_on
metadata: {}
data:
variables:
media_id: >-
media-source://media_source/local/HA_Media/uplight-piano-short.mp3
content_type: audio/mpeg
message_to_announce: сьогодні сонячний день!
target:
entity_id: script.notification_and_tts
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- check_the_day
sequence:
- if:
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.rain_illuminance_maximum_today
above: 6100
then:
- action: calendar.get_events
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: calendar.sunny_day
data:
start_date_time: "{{ now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0) }}"
end_date_time: "{{ now().replace(hour=23, minute=59, second=59) }}"
response_variable: today_is_sunny_day
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{% for event in
today_is_sunny_day["calendar.sunny_day"]["events"] %}{{
true }}{% endfor %}
then:
- action: persistent_notification.create
metadata: {}
data:
title: Sunny day
message: >-
Today was a sunny day!
Event created
{% for event in
today_is_sunny_day["calendar.sunny_day"]["events"] %}
{{ event.summary }} started: {{ event.start}}<br>
{% endfor %}
- action: script.turn_on
metadata: {}
data:
variables:
media_id: >-
media-source://media_source/local/HA_Media/uplight-piano-short.mp3
content_type: audio/mpeg
message_to_announce: сьогодні був сонячний день!
target:
entity_id: script.notification_and_tts
else:
- action: calendar.create_event
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: calendar.sunny_day
data:
summary: Sunny day
description: Sunny day
start_date_time: "{{ now() }}"
end_date_time: "{{ now() + timedelta(minutes=5)}}"
- action: script.turn_on
metadata: {}
data:
variables:
media_id: >-
media-source://media_source/local/HA_Media/uplight-piano-short.mp3
content_type: audio/mpeg
message_to_announce: сьогодні був сонячний день!
target:
entity_id: script.notification_and_tts
mode: single
The device:
Zigbee Model
TS0207
_TZ3210_tgvtvdoc (Solar rain sensor)
Model
RB-SRAIN01
Related issues:
- The change to the existing illuminance sensor in the Tuya rain sensor (RB-SRAIN01) is not correct. · Issue #30439 · Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt · GitHub
- GitHub · Where software is built
UPD: And as soon as I added one template sensor and reloaded configs, it triggered!
I added another template sensor just for testing:
template:
- sensor:
# Additional state class change
- name: "Rain Sensor Illuminance Lx Fake"
unique_id: rain_sensor_illuminance_fake
state_class: measurement
state: >
{{ states('sensor.rain_illuminance_raw') | int }}
UPD 2: The fake Lx sensor fixed the issue; it now triggers as expected.