Hi There, Im trying to set the volume of our Lenovo wall tablet to a low volume before playing a sound and then turning it back up again. If i do these actions manually from the automation, then the it plays at the correct volume, but when the automation runs it does not. Any ideas?
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But at first glance there seems to be nothing wrong, check the traces to see what is happening.
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Thanks for the reply… Here is the entire automation. Basically locking and unlocking our cat door at specific times of the day. The cats didn’t understand when it was unlocked in the morning as does it silently, so we added a cat noise - after a while, now they understand that specific noise is their door unlocked 
Note: We have an input select helper for the cat door setting, there is another automation that actually triggers the cat door setting based on the choice of the input select - so we can have a manual choice on our kitchen dashboard.
id: '1748579200504'
alias: Cat Door
description: ''
triggers:
- trigger: time
at: '07:00:00'
id: Morning
- trigger: time
at: '14:00:00'
id: Afternoon
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- input_boolean.good_night_mode
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
id: Night
conditions:
- type: is_connected
condition: device
device_id: 9e28697dc8726bd7c897c72421bb3b47
entity_id: a3834f4f434c74f8f7cfa6dec6b21a0c
domain: binary_sensor
- type: is_connected
condition: device
device_id: 2bd1c9899ef539311219afce6b93125e
entity_id: 26239b96df676df6665f581e10a3b141
domain: binary_sensor
actions:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- Morning
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: zone.home
above: 0
sequence:
- action: input_select.select_option
metadata: {}
data:
option: Unlocked
target:
entity_id: input_select.cat_door_setting
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 1
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
- action: media_player.volume_set
metadata: {}
data:
volume_level: 0.1
target:
entity_id: media_player.lenovo_tab_m10_plus_3rd_gen
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 5
milliseconds: 0
- target:
entity_id: media_player.lenovo_tab_m10_plus_3rd_gen
data:
media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/Media/Sounds/cat.mp3
media_content_type: audio/mpeg
action: media_player.play_media
- action: media_player.volume_set
metadata: {}
data:
volume_level: 0.8
target:
entity_id: media_player.lenovo_tab_m10_plus_3rd_gen
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- Afternoon
sequence:
- action: input_select.select_option
metadata: {}
data:
option: In Only
target:
entity_id: input_select.cat_door_setting
- action: media_player.volume_set
metadata: {}
data:
volume_level: 0.05
target:
entity_id: media_player.lenovo_tab_m10_plus_3rd_gen
- target:
entity_id: media_player.lenovo_tab_m10_plus_3rd_gen
data:
Looking at the race time line, it does not look like those things are actually happening… am i missing something here?
Update here - I figured out what was going on, I needed a delay in between playing the media and turning the volume back up. It was triggering media_player.play_media and then media_player.volume_set - but the delay in the tablet playing the media was obviously more than media_player.volume_set