Here’s an example of an automation that can be triggered by either one of two input_booleans or time. It records to the logbook whichever trigger activated the automation.
- alias: 'My Automation'
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.flipper, input_boolean.toggler
- platform: time
at: '16:34:00'
action:
- service: logbook.log
data_template:
name: "My Automation"
message: "Triggered by {{'time' if trigger.now is defined else trigger.to_state.entity_id }}"
As per Petro’s comment, you have to be careful with how you handle the trigger object. For example, if time triggered the automation, trigger.now will be defined but trigger.to_state will not. In contrast, if one of the input_booleans triggered it, then trigger.to_state will be defined but trigger.now will not.
The result of triggering the automation looks like this:
It’s kind of interesting that the “Triggered by time” message appears before the system-generated “Time changed to 16:34”. Nevertheless, it’s clear from the log what was responsible for triggering “My Automation”.