WTH Timers reseted for automation when I restart HA

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

I have a boiler, I set and automation to stop it after two hours of runing, if HA in restarted during that runing period the boiler is never shutted of.

platform: state
entity_id:
  - switch.boiler
to: "on"
for:
  hours: 2
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 0

Those triggers should be relaeded at startup to avoid this kind of annoyance

2

Use timers instead, they survive restarts

3

There is another WTH about the delay feature resetting, but it’s essentially the same issue and the same workarounds apply:

4

You should be aware, it’s not just if Home Assistant restarts, it’s also if you edit any automation. Basically any action that causes Home Assistant to reload all the automations.

5

Thanks for the tip, but using helper is not an optimized workflow from my point of view