I agree. It shocked me when I first started that you couldn't do desired state automation. I ended up creating poor-man's controllers in automations where ther

I agree. It shocked me when I first started that you couldn't do desired state automation. I ended up creating poor-man's controllers in automations where there's a timer, a switch to override the automation, triggers for many different events - like at first start, then when the timer runs out, others - just so it would ensure things wouldn't just get out of what because one event was lost, or an addon was down for a minute, or I had a networking glitch, you name it.