State Restoration? What works what dosent

Can someone point me to some documentation on what is working withe state restoration?

I am unable to get automation states (enabled/Disabled) to persist between reboots. input_booleans and sliders show the same broken behavior.

Am I missing something?

From the automation documentation it states you must specifiy an intial value for restoration to work but this seems to go against other things I have read.

from: Automating Home Assistant - Home Assistant

As of version 0.42 you have to set an initial state in your automations in order for Home Assistant to restore them upon restart. text - alias: Automation Name initial_state: True trigger: …

Hello.

Do you have recorder component in your configuration.yaml?

This is what I use for this purpose.