Error handling in automations | Home Assistant | Page 1

graceful cave Oct 19, 2025, 5:09 PM

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Hey all, is there any way to react to bona-fide errors in automations that are nor readily checkable beforehand like this one: Received a different content type than expected: Expected type 'image/jpeg' but received 'text/html', response: [ { "cmd" : "Snap", "code" : 1, "error" : { "detail" : "device offline", "rspCode" : -99 } } ]

tepid bay Oct 19, 2025, 5:40 PM

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see https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/scripts/#continuing-on-error .... unless you were looking for a real catch/throw kinda thing.

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graceful cave Oct 19, 2025, 5:41 PM

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does that set any kind of flag I can react to in subsequent actions or conditions?

tepid bay Oct 19, 2025, 6:16 PM

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I don't think so, unfortunately. you can see some alternatives that are not quite hacks in this discussion thread: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/notify-on-error-continue-remainder-of-automation/621540/24

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Notify on error, continue remainder of automation

and same as Old one but today I got this and it didn’t continue. The notify service wqas not available at this point in time: How can I use continue_on_error that it does continue? Thought that it is exactly for this. Or did I use it in a wrong way?

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