Reboot automation if no connection

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hello everyone, I would like to create an automation that checks the status of the internet connection every hour and if this is absent, restart the home assistant.
I created a new binary sensor:

binary_sensor:
 - platform: ping
   host: 8.8.8.8
   count: 2
   scan_interval: 1800
   name: state_connection

And its automation:

alias: Restart connection
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    hours: '1'
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.state_connection
    state: 'off'
action:
  - service: homeassistant.restart
    data: {}
mode: single

If I debug the automation, I get the message “No traces found” and I can’t understand if the automation would work or not.
Also, in the sensor settings I get this message “This entity (" binary_sensor.connection_state ") does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the user interface. See documentation for more details.”

The sensor works perfectly. How could I fix these errors?

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  1. If you don’t have an internet connection, it’s unlikely that restarting HA will fix the issue, unlike it’s something very specific to your setup
  2. You won’t get automation traces because I don’t think those survive an HA restart
  3. Trigger directly on the binary_sensor state, no need for a time pattern, here. If you want to wait a while for the connection to come back by itself, use for: on the trigger