Zone state change not triggering automation

[Toxicable]

The problem

I've been trying to configure a notification when I leave home. I'm using the companion app on my iphone to provide updates. Which has both an internal and external url configured, along with all update sources enabled The updates are being logged in logbook but they are not triggering the automation.

On top of that, History shows that the zone is still Home even though logbook showed a zone change detected

I can force the automation to trigger by setting my gps coordinates on my iphone in the debug console, but when I set the state it does not trigger the automation.

There's a bit more detail in the Home Assistant discord thread I opened

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.9.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

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Link to integration documentation on our website

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Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

alias: leave home test
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: zone
    entity_id: person.fabian
    zone: zone.home
    event: leave
condition: []
action:
  - device_id: ...
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: test
    title: fabian left
mode: single

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[gjohansson-ST]

On your automation select yaml mode and then copy it and paste here in a code-block 👍

[Toxicable]

@gjohansson-ST Ah yeah, here's that automation:

alias: leave home test
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: zone
    entity_id: person.fabian
    zone: zone.home
    event: leave
condition: []
action:
  - device_id: ...
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: test
    title: fabian left
mode: single

Also I have the track device setup here

[dhoeben]

Your automation action is not correct. Try this:

alias: leave home test
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: zone
    entity_id: person.fabian
    zone: zone.home
    event: leave
condition: []
action:
  - action: notify.fabian
    data:
      title: "Fabian left"
      message: "test"
mode: single

If you are using this automation to see run automations based on if your house is empty or not, I recommend adding more triggers, just because phones don't always update that quick imho.

This is my trigger for presence home:

trigger:
  - platform: zone
    entity_id:
    - person.a
    - person.b
    zone: zone.home
    event: enter
  - platform: state
    entity_id: zone.home
    from: '0'

And this for presence away:

 trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: zone.home
    to: '0'

[Toxicable]

Your automation action is not correct.

@dhoeben This was configured via the UI, so the yaml is generated. I verified this by triggering the notification, which has been successful so I don't think the issue is in the action.

If you are using this automation to see run automations based on if your house is empty or not

The end goal is just for when the one person leaves home, it's not relevant for others

[dhoeben]

Still it does not correspondent to the docs. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/notify/

Might be worth trying as the rest looks correct.