Light turns on again by itself

[dominikruffing]

The problem

An automation switches on a light for me at sunset, which is integrated via Hue. The light should be turned off at 11 p.m. Since a radio signal can sometimes be lost, I created a loop that tries to turn off the light until it is off. This also works, but as you can see in the picture, the light suddenly turns on again after about 1 minute. But through what?

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.10.1

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Philips Hue

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/hue

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

alias: Fassadenbeleuchtung
description: ""
triggers:
  - event: sunset
    offset: "00:15:00"
    id: Sonnenuntergang
    trigger: sun
  - at: "23:00:00"
    id: Ausschalten
    trigger: time
conditions: []
actions:
  - alias: Licht einschalten
    if:
      - condition: trigger
        id:
          - Sonnenuntergang
    then:
      - action: light.turn_on
        metadata: {}
        data: {}
        target:
          device_id:
            - a1d0bf86adaa1bb55f6793b73620cde2
      - action: light.turn_on
        metadata: {}
        data:
          rgb_color:
            - 251
            - 0
            - 255
          brightness_pct: 100
        target:
          device_id: 772a7a4c0be2f5d468d7de2561991a6e
  - alias: Licht ausschalten
    if:
      - condition: and
        conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - Ausschalten
    then:
      - action: light.turn_off
        metadata: {}
        data: {}
        target:
          device_id:
            - 772a7a4c0be2f5d468d7de2561991a6e
      - repeat:
          while:
            - condition: state
              entity_id: light.dimmable_light_1
              state: "on"
          sequence:
            - delay: "00:00:01"
            - action: light.turn_off
              data: {}
              target:
                entity_id: light.dimmable_light_1
mode: single

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

No response

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[EF01]

Same issue.

[cgilis]

Same here in the middle of the night.. strange

Diagnostics here: config_entry-hue-8585045bab121883caa2f9d1a4ca3341.json

[tomas123]

same issue In my case the lamps are not switched by a home assistant script. The sunset timing is controlled by the hue bridge. After I have integrated the Hue bridge into HomeAssistant, the lamp sometimes switched on again a minute later (about once a week)

[Capcave]

I have been seeing this recently as well - the hue light will come on by itself, possibly as a result from a disconnect from the bridge although it's 2m away? It consistently seems to be the same light in a group of 4 and it's the slowest one to connect when you power the bridge up.

[illascanbe]

I have some automations for controlling lights (via HUE integration) depending on corresponding motion sensors.

When a light is switched via such an automation, a helper should also be set to a corresponding state at the same time so that the system knows that the light has been switched on by motion control and can also be switched off again automatically.

As sometimes (usually a few times a day) the light switches on again “automatically” (as described in this issue), the helper is not set accordingly and the light remains on longer than desired as a result.

I have been trying to track down this behavior for some time now. And I have already tried several iterations of workarounds. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a way to improve the behavior, or even correct it.

[Eikwerno]

I have the same issue. The lamp is not even part of any automation but still turns on randomly.

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