When a zigbee device fails it breaks an automation now (new behavior)

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Something changed this year in how zigbee devices are handled by automations. If a device goes offline, is unreachable, or whatever, the automation actually breaks and stops running. Any further operations do not happen.

This is definitely something new as I would have failed or offline (like holiday lighting) devices that were unreachable but all it would do is generate a log error, not completely stop the automation.

I have been slowly moving my devices off of the ZHA integration+interface on to a Conbee+zigbee2mqtt setup to maybe help alleviate this problem.

I agree I should not have devices that generate errors, but something will eventually break or be offline and I feel like it shouldn’t stop an automation from continuing to process the other actions.

Any thoughts here?

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Example log entries:

2024-11-16 00:01:24.104 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.daily_timed_events_midnight_lighting_changes] Daily timed events: Midnight changes: Choose at step 1: choice 1: Error executing script. Error for device at pos 7: Failed to send request: Failed to deliver message: <sl_Status.ZIGBEE_DELIVERY_FAILED: 3074>

2024-11-16 00:01:24.105 ERROR (MainThread) 
[homeassistant.components.automation.daily_timed_events_midnight_lighting_changes] Daily timed events: Midnight changes: Error executing script. Error for choose at pos 1: Failed to send request: Failed to deliver message: <sl_Status.ZIGBEE_DELIVERY_FAILED: 3074>

2024-11-16 00:01:24.105 ERROR (MainThread) 
[homeassistant.components.automation.daily_timed_events_midnight_lighting_changes] Error while executing automation automation.daily_timed_events_midnight_lighting_changes: Failed to send request: Failed to deliver message: <sl_Status.ZIGBEE_DELIVERY_FAILED: 3074>

2024-11-15 05:30:15.141 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.daily_timed_events_morning_lights_on] Error while executing automation automation.daily_timed_events_morning_lights_on: Failed to send request: Failed to deliver message: <sl_Status.ZIGBEE_DELIVERY_FAILED: 3074>
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Did you try “Continuing on error”?

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I don’t think that feature works for me. Does it not work in an automation?

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OK, it has to be part of an ACTION, not the main automation. It took the command when I added it to one action.

So this will take me a while to add it to all the automation actions but it’ll be worth it if it fixes my issue.

Thanks!

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