Hi
I got caught up in the Insteon debacle. I installed HA and I’m watching a lot of tutorials and trying to learn how to use it. All of my Insteon light switches were recognized by the system. Now I am trying to set up a simple automation of having one light turn on at a certain time. For some reason it is not working. Here are the automation settings I am using.
Trigger type - Fixed Time
Conditions - None
Action type - Call Service
Service - light.turn_on
Target - One of the Insteon switches
When the fixed time I set passes, the light does not turn on. However when I click run actions, the target light turns on. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance for any assistance.
Would have to see your automation. Possible to post the YAML for it? Sounds like something is off in the time formatting.
Also please move this to configuration, not community guides.
Mark
Thank you for offering to assist with this. I have no programming experience. The innerworkings of HA are a complete mystery to me. Here is the YML info from the developers tools current entities page.
last_triggered: ‘2022-04-25T14:57:00.001503+00:00’
mode: single
current: 0
id: ‘1650738764220’
friendly_name: turn on column lights
It seems to be working now.
The time I set for these lights to go on was 2:57 pm. I configured and saved this at approximately 2:50 pm on April 23rd. Although the lights did not turn on at 2:57 pm on the 23rd, based on my YML code above they appear to have been triggered to turn on at 2:57 pm today (it is 4:04pm now and they are on). Is there some delay in the activation of the coding (is it possible that if at 2:50 pm, I configure an event to occur at 2:57 pm, there has not been enough time for the coding to take effect)?
I’ll keep trying to mess with this.
I have an update on this. I just reviewed the history and it seems that the lights are turning on at 10:57 am rather than 2:57 pm. I tried to add a screenshot but I’m not sure it will be visible. what would cause this time discrepancy? it looks like it is using GMT. I am on on eastern US time zone.
thank you for any input
What timezone is set up in your ha gui?
thank you for your continued assistance with this. the time zone under “Configuration - General” is set to “America/New_york” which should be US eastern time zone
I don’t know if it makes a difference, but I use “America/New_York”. Since many systems are case sensitive, I’d try changing to the “Y” and see if that helps.
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