Turn off automations for just one instance of Home Assistant

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Hello

I’ve just set up my config files to be in git

I have a dev branch and a master branch

For testing on dev, I’ve spun up another instance of home assistant on my RPI3, my master instance runs on RPI4

Is there a way, without changing the config files (as I need to be able to merge changes from dev to master) to be able to turn off all automations on the dev instance?

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call a service from UI? something like

automation.turn_off
  entity_id: all

?

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Hi Ahmad

This does work, but was hoping for a more automated way, as this will require me to run it with each restart to the dev instance - which may be many times

Although i wouldn’t be able to do this as a automation on start up, as when I merge to master for the main instance, it would go over also

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have you tried? I believe that automations restore their state after HA restart

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Hello

Yes just restarted and their all now back active

I know you can set an initial state on the automations, but that wouldnt work for my case

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Hello

Sorry! My mistake, I disabled them on dev but then checked my master after restarting

They have remained off so will mark your original answer as the solution, thank you!

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Cool. You don’t normally need to us initial_state nowadays :wink: