I have an automation that turns a light on during a motion event and waits 5 minutes before turning it back off or if before it certain time it leave is on at a reduced brightness. When you start getting closer to the house and then the camera picks you up. It seems like during that 5 min wait now the other automation notification event for frigate is now delayed while the motion event is in a wait state. Is it not recommended to use a wait timer on automatons?
#Automation with a wait impact other automations
merry barn
glass lake
I have an automation that turns a light on during a motion event and waits 5 min...
I can tell you that if HA restarts while the wait is happening, it does not resolve cleanly after it reboots. Automations do not survive restarts.
It is often better to have a separate trigger for on and off.
merry barn
I tried doing an automation for the ikea light that was a brightness trigger but the ikea light doesn't seem to report its brightness level to HA in activity that I saw.
static solstice
It won't impact other automations, BUT if the frigate is a trigger on the same automation it will unless it is set to run parallel. Personally I avoid wait's especially for lights. I turn on lights with movement detected on one trigger and have a 2nd trigger which waits for cleared for 5 minutes then turns it off.
gleaming tulip
Can you share the automations?
And never seen an Ikea bulb that doesn't report it's brightness 🙂