Tibber sensors never seem to trigger automation

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Hello!

Been testing Home Assistant for a few weeks now and I mostly got things working. I have one weird problem though. I have added integration with Tibber, and I can see the prices for electricity etc without problems. But I wanted to try adding an automation that would change the color of a Shelly lightbulb whenever the price is a certain value.

  • The lightbulb works and I can manually change color, turn it on and off etc (from Home Assistant).
  • I can create another automation that changes the color of the light at a certain times, this works.
  • When I instead set that the light should change color when the price is above or below a certain value, it never ever triggers.

My first attempt involved adding a trigger with

  • entity “Electricity price Home”
  • attribute “Avg Price”
  • Above mode, fixed number above “0.03”
  • Below mode, fixed number below “0.11”

Then I added similar automations for other ranges to give different colors. This was my first try and nothing happened. Since then I’ve messed around with templates a lot and tried the following for one trigger:

{% if(state_attr('sensor.electricity_price_home', 'avg_price')|float) >= 0 %}true{% endif %}

This as well does nothing and it never triggers. If I go into “Developer Tools” / “Template” and type the following template:

{{state_attr('sensor.electricity_price_home', 'avg_price')}}

It will at this very moment print: 0.633

I am currently out of ideas and I’m really hoping someone here can push me in the right direction. Would really appreciate it!

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Im pretty sure this will always show “true” (unless the price is below 0 )

Even i got average price 0.633, at this moment :wink:

However ( not sure how your “automation” looks like cording to your “cryptic” description

This would seems like you want an automation which “Triggers”

  • When price goes “Above 0.03” … which it already is !
  • When price goes “Below 0.11” … Which it already is !
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The first one, yes, it will always show true. So why doesn’t it trigger? : |

Sorry about the cryptic description.
Will try a bit harder and entertain you with a picture worth at least 1000 words.

I changed it so that it should (as far as I understand) trigger when it is below 1.0, which it is now. Yet it never triggers.

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Yes it is now, that why it doesn’t “Trigger” a Trigger is “like a button” it does something when you “press it” … so , IF it is Above 1.0, it will trigger when it gets Below ! (Trigger 1 time) , never again

Again A trigger-event occur WHEN something(specified) happens AND only then,

So change your automation( if you want to use an automation for this ) and add “Conditions”.( if price is above, change color )

Maybe you should try to look at Templates for this , you can specify much more in details.

I.E

For your Shelby-Light-entity

IF el-pris-state <=0.1, then Shelby-Light-entity_color=green, elif el-pris-state >0.1 then Shelby-Light-entity_color=yellow, elif el-pris-state >=1.0 then Shelby-Light-entity_colo=red