#Automation Triggering when Disabled

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frosty hedge
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Hi,

Automation (A) is disabled
Automation (B) triggers Automation (A) with Skip Conditions = true
Automation (A) still runs

I had presumed that "Skip Conditions = true" meant the conditions within (A) and it would still respect the fact that (A) itself is disabled.

Am I just wrong about this? (evidence suggests I am)
Is there any setting I'm missing that can change this to work (IMHO) logically and not trigger disabled automations?

background if you care: I have various automations around heating which trigger based on schedule, override helpers etc... probably over complicated but I had it working.

One of the overrides disables these automations as I still have a partially dumb house and choose to turn the heating off manually in the summer so I don't see the point in the automations running loads when they can't do anything.

pastel ocean
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no, disabling an automation will just disable the triggers.

In my opinion it's best to:

  • Don't use automation.trigger other then for testing
  • Leave the automation disable as last resort to disable an automation manual aka not use automation.turn_off, automation.turn_on or automation.toggle anywhere