Automation turning off switch, then turning it back on 1 second later | Home Assistant | Page 1

frigid beacon Jul 3, 2025, 10:39 PM

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Have an automation to turn off a zwave light switch at midnight. For the most part it works fine, but last night I'm finding that it turned off, then turned it back on immediately one second later [see attached image]. Only change is that I updated the home assistant docker container yesterday.
What the heck happened, and how can I assist on getting this fixed?

mortal quarry Jul 3, 2025, 10:40 PM

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you'll need to share the YAML

rustic quartzBOT Jul 3, 2025, 10:41 PM

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frigid beacon Jul 3, 2025, 10:42 PM

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The specific automation config is:

- id: '1728224315258'
  alias: Outside mini cans off at midnight
  description: Turn the outside mini can lights off at midnight
  triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at:
      entity_id: sensor.sun_next_midnight
      offset: -00:05:00
  conditions: []
  actions:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: 0feb0a1d50c8906b1363ac7bffc29869
    entity_id: 0349b09bf4e9fd358a11e3cce7942c9f
    domain: switch
  mode: single

mortal quarry Jul 3, 2025, 10:44 PM

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there's no "turn on" in there at all

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I suggest looking at the automation traces for those runs

frigid beacon Jul 3, 2025, 10:45 PM

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Right! 😕

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How can I look at automation traces?

mortal quarry Jul 3, 2025, 10:46 PM

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https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/troubleshooting/#traces

frigid beacon Jul 3, 2025, 10:52 PM

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I believe that says about the same 😕

mortal quarry Jul 3, 2025, 10:57 PM

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The only thing that I can think of is that it's either something about the device itself, or that switch is actually a template switch that has some additional actions in it

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you can run that action yourself and see what happens

peak karma Jul 4, 2025, 8:22 AM

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frigid beacon Have an automation to turn off a zwave light switch at midnight. For the most pa...

If you click the "outside mini cans off at midnight" of the line that turns them on, does that give you the same automation? Aka, you didn't accidentally make a second automation with the same name?

frigid beacon Jul 4, 2025, 2:27 PM

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Clicking on it brings me to the same automation.
This is weird now, last night, it was successful

#Automation turning off switch, then turning it back on 1 second later