Temp Alert - Initial then followup alerts - do I need 2 scripts?

Configuration
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I have the following 2 scripts that work as intended, but as a Newbie I’m not sure if this approach is appropriate or a combined script would be better? Ideally, I’d like

  • Alert sent when the threshold is passed
  • Additional Alerts sent each hour the threshold stays passed

What I have is as follows:

  1. This scripts sends the alert once when the threshold is passed
id: '1653113982402'
  alias: Cellar Temp Warning
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.cellar_air_temperature_2
    above: '18'
  condition: []
  action:
  - data:
      filename: /tmp/snapshot.jpeg
    service: camera.snapshot
    target:
      entity_id: camera.cellar_high
  - service: notify.iot_mail
    data:
      title: Cellar too warm
      message: Cellar Temp is {{ states('sensor.cellar_air_temperature_2') }}°C, and
        Humidity is {{ states('sensor.cellar_air_humidity_2') }}%
      data:
        images:
        - /tmp/snapshot.jpeg
  mode: single
  1. This scripts sends the alert once per hour (at the 30min mark) when exceeding the threshold
- id: '1653114654701'
  alias: Cellar Temp Warning - Continuing
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    minutes: '30'
  condition:
  - type: is_temperature
    condition: device
    device_id: 150f04c90b1335570567847a36b62065
    entity_id: sensor.cellar_air_temperature_2
    domain: sensor
    above: 18
  action:
  - data:
      filename: /tmp/snapshot.jpeg
    service: camera.snapshot
    target:
      entity_id:
      - camera.cellar_high
  - service: notify.iot_mail
    data:
      title: Cellar too warm - continuing
      message: Cellar Temp is {{ states('sensor.cellar_air_temperature_2') }}°C, and
        Humidity is {{ states('sensor.cellar_air_humidity_2') }}%
      data:
        images:
        - /tmp/snapshot.jpeg
  mode: single

Thanks
Nathan

2

you should look into using the Alert integration for this. It will do what you want to do.