Send notification and go offline

ESPHome
1

Hello. What is the best way to send an notification when a device gets online from deep sleep? I tried an automation, but it never fires:

alias: Send Pushover
description: ""
triggers:
  - entity_id:
      - sensor.floor_esp32.wifi
    from:
      - unavailable
      - unknown
    trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: notify.pushover
  ...

When i start it manually, the notification comes as expected. As far as I understand this may not work due to undefined states of the sensor? So how does one resolve this? An on_boot action to let the device do the thing? The ESP device is quite simple: just wakes up from deep sleep by an external trigger signal, connects to wifi and goes to deep sleep again after 10 seconds. No sensors, no actions.

2

Wifi component offers on_connect automation.

3

Thanks. Tried this, but it never fires. Even if the device is on for 60s. The device is also allowed to use actions/scripts. Is there something else to consider? API timings? Can't figure out.

  on_connect:
    then:
      - homeassistant.action:
          action: notify.html5
          data:
            message: "test"
4 
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.floor_esp32.wifi

I use just the trigger of state without a from or to so when my esp comes online it triggers. I use MQTT so that may result in a different response than API.

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When esp connects to mqtt server and HA gets a sensor reading it then sends esp back to deepsleep which is tipically within 60ms.

5

See your logs, best way to debug. On_connect is for wifi, api is likely not yet available at that moment.