Scripts, continue_on_error default fails, no error displayed if continued - bug?

Configuration
1

This may be in the wrong place, I would appreciate it being moved if so.

On 2025.03.02 and wrote a script to do a few things as I leave home. It’s below.

“Continue_on_error” is supposed to default per the documentation. If I omit those lines below, during the light turn-off, there is one light that sleeps a lot and is unavailable. I get this error (first image below) in the trace and the script does not continue.

With the explicit continiue_on_error the script runs, but the trace does not show the error at all, which is a bit of a surprise. I don’t see it in the logs either. I’ve reproduced this several times as there is a small window (when it wakes up) that the light is available, but it is fully consistent. I also don’t know what the “running_script: false” means in the trace’s yaml.

Is continue_on_error not a default of true? Or am I missing something?

I can obviously fix it (and have) by being explicit but trying to understand what is happening, if I misinterpreted the doc, if it’s a bug, etc.

Linwood

image
image829×627 21.2 KB

leaving_home: 
  alias: "Leaving Home"
  mode: restart
  sequence: 
  - action: light.turn_off
    continue_on_error: true
    target: 
      entity_id: all
  - action: switch.turn_on
    continue_on_error: true
    target:
      entity_id: switch.alerts_quiet 
  - action: cover.open_cover
    continue_on_error: true
    target:
      entity_id: cover.small_garage_door
  - delay: '00:15'
  - action: switch.turn_on
    continue_on_error: true
    target: 
      entity_id: switch.alerts_active
2

The default value for continue_on_error is false.

The continue_on_error is available on all actions and is set to false . You can set it to true if you’d like to continue the action sequence, regardless of whether that action encounters an error.

Reference

Continuing on error

3

Ah… google let me down, and my eyes failed me.

There is a continue_on_timeout that my search found for some reason when I searched for continue on error:

image
image878×551 43 KB

It apparently has a default of true and I conflated that with continue_on_error.

Reading is a skill I am still working on, apparently.

Interesting they default the opposite. But clearly my reading error.

Thank you.

4

You’re welcome!

Please consider marking my post above with the Solution tag. It will automatically place a check-mark next to the topic’s title which indicates to others that the topic has been solved. This helps other users find answers to similar questions.