I’m trying for hours now to get this simple time automation to work. It should start my heating/warm water at specific times. However, it’s not working and I don’t understand why. I made the automations with the automations builder so it should be correct. There are two simple mqtt/tasmota switches.
Problem : As soon as the time reaches the given value nothing happens.
I have this error in my log but I guess that’s just a problem with darksky
Error doing job: Fatal error on transport TCPTransport (error status in uv_stream_t.read callback)
16:43 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py (ERROR)
I’d verify they actually work. Even going with the automation editor, all it will do is create the yaml for you. It may have added quotes for you knowing that it is a common mistake.
In Chris1’s case I’d say yes.
I just created a new test automation and this time the quotes were placed in the yaml file. However, when I edited the time of one of my existing ones, it left the quotes off.
Yeah, that automation helper isn’t the greatest. It’s great for starting out. Once you get the swing of things it’s recommended to learn the yaml way. Maybe one day the editor will be rock solid.
I think that line is automatically put in there by the automation config editor.
That tool is kind of confusing. But it looks like there is some improvement since the last time I’ve seen the output of someone using it. At least now the trigger, condition, action order is logical in the resulting automation.
What happens to me, using the automation configurator, is that quotes are automatically added for the starting time (after: ) but not for the stopping time (before: ).
Moreover, when you change something in any of your automations, the quotes I’ve manually inserted in the stopping times are removed from every automation in the automations.yaml file!
At the end of the day, if I make any change in any automation using the configurator, I need to manually insert again the quotes in every (before: ) line of each automation.
Any other with the same problem?