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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ran into issues with it conflicting with other routines that control the fish tank pump too

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not sure how that would conflict with anything.. Maybe a schedule? Then just add an override toggle helper that you check in your schedule.

    I feel like you're trying to use it in your specific way. Instead of using home assistant as intended. Sure that's a valid criticism for your use cases. But it doesn't make home assistant objectively terrible imho.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How do you build controls to toggle automations as you described?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You can either directly disable an automation e.g. automation.turn_off: ... or set/read the state of a helper entity that you use to disable certain functionality in another automation. There are probably more tricks too. Though I try to make my automations as atomic as possible so they don't need to be connected this way.

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