Failed automation notification? | Home Assistant | Page 1

unborn halo Aug 25, 2025, 4:39 PM

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Is there a way to trigger a notification when an automation fails to run?

worn night Aug 25, 2025, 4:40 PM

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how would you know?

unborn halo Aug 25, 2025, 5:19 PM

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given automations track it in traces, logs, etc, i would assume they would just fire a trigger, but can't find one (I see some people asking for one from a while ago)

worn night Aug 25, 2025, 5:22 PM

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if an automation doesn't trigger, there's nothing to notify about

unborn halo Aug 25, 2025, 5:49 PM

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Sorry, when it doesn’t actually complete because of an error from something, not when it doesn’t run in the first place

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I changed some camera things that broke a service call from an automation and didn’t notice for a while

worn night Aug 25, 2025, 5:59 PM

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I don't think there's a straightforward way to do that. You can use continue_on_error: true to not have the automation stop due to errors and then notify that it was successful, or set an input_boolean at the end to true to indicate that it completed, and then notify if the automation was triggered but the input_boolean was never set to true. Or other similar strategies

#Failed automation notification?