Is there any way to have an automation survive HA restart?

[primal sequoia]

I have an automation that shuts off, waits, and turns on a smart switch when a sensor reports excessive errors.
To avoid an infinite loop situation, whenever that automation fires, in addition to notifiying me and restarting the device, it increments a counter. When the helper.counter hits 3, it stops restarting the device and only notifies me.

I want to make another automation that fires whenever helper.counter is incremented, and counts out 24 hours. If 24 hours pass without changes, it should reset the counter to zero.
My understanding, however, is that such an automation will not survive a HA restart. Am I correct? Is there any way to make it survive a restart, meaning if I happen to restart HA during the 24 hours it will still reset the counter to zero?

[warm quest]

Use a timer or a datetime helper to keep track of the 24hrs and trigger on that

[pliant magnet]

I only think it's still ridiculous there is no way to see if a timer finished during a restart 😐

But yeah, it's the best there is.

[warm quest]

Huh, what do you mean, timer triggers work after a restart, even if the timer finished while HA was down.

[pliant magnet]

@warm quest Have to say I didn´t tried it recently but this is the big note in the documentation still:

[warm quest]

Hmm, okay, could be I'm wrong then

I probably am, based on that note