I am testing some triggers for automation with temp from multisensors, and did a simple automation to fire a telegram message to myself.
Triggers:
Action:
Notification in Telegram:
I’m trying to figure out why this is causing 2 or 3 messages to be sent (not always the same number, but seems to always be more than 1). There’s something going on with the state change that I don’t understand.
Because you have not specified a from or to state the automation will fire whenever the state or attributes of the sensor change.
If you want it to be triggered every time the temperature changes, you could add a Template condition with this as the value_template:
{{ trigger.to_state.state != trigger.from_state.state }}
You could tweak this to only do it if it changes by more than a certain number of degrees by something like this
{{ (trigger.to_state.state | float - trigger.from_state.state | float) | abs >= 5}}
That will only apply if the absolute difference between the old and the new state is at least 5 degrees.
@tom_l Thanks! I had no idea attributes were even changing during this time but makes sense. Wish it was easier to just dump out the states and attributes changes more easily.
@Steven_Rollason Thanks so much. You over delivered by anticipating my next question. I just added a template condition to that automation. Much appreciated! I had no idea that you could get the from and to states with that generic of a statement.
