WTH keep for part in automation alive while restarting HA

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
1

If I have a trigger like this.

  trigger:
  - platform: device
    type: turned_on
    device_id: 30acf7e150eb4818243709b045f8b34e
    entity_id: switch.lamp_trapkast
    domain: switch
    for:
      hours: 2
      minutes: 10
      seconds: 0

but during those 2 hours HA get’s restarted, the trigger won’t fire.
I can fix this using input_datetime but this is in my opinion to complicated.
Automation actions(also delay btw) should be kept alive during the restart.

2

What happens if Home Assistant is offline longer than the for: time?

3

good question,
maybe it should be a setting to either cancel, or continue the automation at this point.
in my example, the light should be turned of anyway, but I can imagine that some users want different behavior.

also, what should happen if the specified automation is modified in the meanwhile?
I think at that point the automation should stop, but maybe it’s better not to this is something to consider and I don’t have a straight answer for it.

4

FYI, the for time used to survive reloading/restarting. It was a deliberate change, but I am not sure of the reasoning.

1 Like