When state changes to same state

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Hi!

Can someone please tell me if there is any chance to make an automation which triggers everytime when a sensor state change even if the state is the same like last time? Let’s say that I have a device which send the state every 1 minute. Now is “OFF” state", but I want to trigger even if the device will send “OFF” state again, not only different than “OFF” :smiley: Hope you can understand what I said here…

Thank you!

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Or maybe to trigger when MQTT receive something? I have a door sensor and I want to trigger something even when the state sent is from OFF to OFF … I don’t know to explain it better :frowning:

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If state was off and becomes off, there is no state change. Bur you night try an mqtt trogger.

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Can you explain me more? Thanks!

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Like nickrout said, if the state did not change, then there will be no state change. Example: if a sensor has a value of 0 at 13:00:00, it will be 0 with that time stamp until it is no longer 0. If a device sends an update and the sensor is still at 0, HA interprets this as the sensor has not changed.

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Short answer, try an mqtt trigger

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I’m very new to mqtt, If you can help me with stright information, it will be great. I don’t understand how should I aproach this

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This is my binary sensor for getting the door sensor on/off state… But I want to refresh the state even if I get the second state similar with the first state…

- platform: mqtt
  state_topic: "tele/RF_Bridge/RESULT"
  name: "Kitchen Door"
  value_template: "{{value_json.RfReceived.Data}}"
  payload_on: "BNNBC84E"
  payload_off: "BNNBC847"
  device_class: door
  qos: 1
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Oh, wait, I think I know what you say… About creating an automation with the trigger of MQTT, and ok, yes, right, sorry, i’m stupid :smiley: Thanks, I will try more

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Ok, this is very very new to me… I don’t know what to write on payload, to trigger if I get the same payload from the binary sensor :frowning:

This is what I tried, but it is not working, as a trigger:

platform: mqtt
topic: tele/RF_Bridge/RESULT
payload: value_json.RfReceived.Data == "8N1NCD47"

Solved with:
{{ trigger.payload_json['RfReceived']['Data'] == "8N1NCD47" }}

Done for tonight :smiley: