Trying to trigger action hassio.host_shutdown

[Scott8586 (Scott Presnell)]

I’m trying to create an automation which would shutdown my pi if the UPS it’s attached to is down to 600s of time left on battery. I’ve setup an automation like the one below (in automations.yaml), but I can’t seem to get the shutdown to happen. I see the automation on the main screen, and if I flip the switch, the log says “Initialized trigger UPS based shutdown” but the host does not shut down. Is there something more I need to add to the action to trigger the shutdown? I’m running hassio in a Pi 3B+, installed as a hassos image? Thanks for your help, this is my first automation

UPS Shutdown

- alias: "UPS based shutdown"
  initial_state: 'off'
  trigger:
    - platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: sensor.basement_ups_battery_runtime
      below: 600
  action:
    - service: hassio.host_shutdown

[tom_l]

How long have you been running hassio?

Using automation to shutdown home assistant pi

yes, as long as you are using hass.io with hassOS. If you upgraded hass.io when it was using ResinOS, then it will not work. So, if you upgraded hass.io from 0.74 or lower to 0.74 or higher, hassio.host_shutdown will not work. If you installed hassio 0.74 or higher, that uses HassOS and you should be good to go.

[Scott8586 (Scott Presnell)]

Since just a few days ago, from an image that was apparently hassio 2.11, 64bit. Not a convoluted upgrade path.

[petro]

any errors in the logs? What happens if you try this button

[Scott8586 (Scott Presnell)]

No errors, in the log - if I click host system shutdown from the Hass.io page, it works to shutdown the entire host.

[Scott8586 (Scott Presnell)]

OK, got it solved - manual triggering wasn’t working as I expected.