Automations not Punctual

[Guilherme_Salles]

I have two automations with the same problem.

The first one is a daily reminder. This one filters all my tasks for the day in a database and send me a notification with a list 9:00am. The other one (that I am still trying to build) is a workaround for a precise time task reminder.

Both them have a delay that is not tolerable. Like, 4, 5 minutes. For my daily reminder, is quite annoying, but okay. But, for me precise reminder it simple doesn’t work, it’s too much time. I thought that could be related to how big the database is, but I don’t think it’s totally related to that because the database is always growing and sometimes it has a 4 minutes delay, other times it has 2 minutes.

I don’t know what is going on.

[Pch]

Hi @Guilherme_Salles !

This is due to how time-based automations are currently working

My Automations is not on time

Currently automations will hit the queue when server time allows. Sometimes there may be a delay. This is something we will revisit later as we work on a few other items in the system. Automations aren’t guaranteed to run at exactly that time.

So building a precise time-based automation will always be problematic until this feature is improved in some way .

This post might also interest you .

My Automation rule is set for 11am but went off at 11:34, why?

@Connor_McCormick a brief history of this request (2018-11-30) (2019-08-07) (2019-11-18) (2019-11-20) (2020-01-25)

[Guilherme_Salles]

Thanks a lot @Pch! At least I know now that I am not doing anything wrong.