Switches going from unkown to off or on

[MinaHanna34 (Mina)]

Hello,

I have been having this problem where entites will go from unknown to on or off the orignal state. This will cause the entity to trigger the automastion again and cause problems. Is there a homeassistant setting or way to stop an automastion from running if it went from unknown to on or off?

[JulianDH (Julian Hall)]

Make you trigger specific to which state to which state I.e.
Off → On

You will see there are two boxes in triggers to do this

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

@MinaHanna34

Is there a homeassistant setting or way to stop an automation from running if it went from unknown

@CentralCommand

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.some_sensor
    not_from: ["unavailable", "unknown"]
    not_to: ["unavailable", "unknown"]

@tom_l

triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.your_entity_here
    to: "off"
    not_from:
      - unknown
      - unavailable

[MinaHanna34 (Mina)]

that makes sense and I understand, so just call on it as an entity and have off to on. Is there a golbal wide settings that ignore unknown to off because this is obviously not an intended action?