August Smart Locks: Locking Door Issues when already locked

[distant spear]

I made an automation for my August Yale lock (with SmartSense) to lock every night and it seems like it keeps trying to lock an already locked door - thus exceeding API limits. why doesn't it first check if the door is currently locked before trying to lock it?...

is there any way to add a script whenever something calls lock.frontdoor to check its status first? internally within the August/Yale integration

[autumn kite]

Use a condition in your automation. either as a main condition, or if your automation does other stuff too then you can just use an if block and set it as a condition for that specific action.

[distant spear]

Can you please share how to do this?

[autumn kite]

Can you share your current automation yaml?

[jade horizon]

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[distant spear]

I can't find the correct tick on my iPhone sorry. I was wondering if there is a way in the device settings script when lock is called so it's global whenever lock entity is called instead of specific automation

If you post the ticks in a message I might be able to copy and paste them

[autumn kite]

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[distant spear]

Fixed thank you

[autumn kite]

ok so you look like this currently (with less errors)

add an if block to actions

move the lock action into the block as "else"

then add a condition in the box. this condition needs to check that the state of the lock is set to LOCKED. I cant show exactly how it would look as I don't have the device.

so the flow is:
trigger - check if do is locked - if locked do nothing - else send lock door command.

[autumn kite]

hopefully that all makes sense.

[distant spear]

@autumn kite i am at my desk now reviewing this. however, from my scripting knowledge, won't an "and if...x", like for if not unlocked - stop the whole automation? for example, i have security alarm also turning on. so if the door is locked, won't this prohibit the full automation from running its remaining tasks

[distant spear]

@autumn kite I'll just make separate automation instances though