# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Home Assistant no-op events consuming cooldown fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug was identified where Home Assistant no-op state_changed events were consuming the cooldown period, suppressing subsequent real state changes. A fix was proposed and/or applied to prevent no-op events from triggering cooldown consumption.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #12062: Home Assistant no-op state_changed events consume cooldown and suppress the next real change

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#12083: fix: do not let no-op Home Assistant events consume cooldown**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `f7689f40a4`, `#132469`
- **#12170: fix(homeassistant): don't consume cooldown on no-op state_changed events (#12062)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `stale_abandoned`; implication `active`
- **#123905: fix(homeassistant): no-op state_changed events no longer consume the cooldown (salvage #12083)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `f7689f40a4`, `#132469`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `gateway`