Phone need to be on?

[Ryan1976]

Hi, 

   I have Google automations set to turn on my lights to wake me up in the morning at 5:45. Sometimes it works, sometimes it turns them on 5 minutes late. Sometimes it fails to turn them on at all.

    Silly question, but because a lot of the advice has been to restart the Google home app, does it matter that I completely turn my phone off at night?

[David_K · Accepted solution]

No your phone doesn't need to be on for the automation to run. Popular times occasionally seem to have issues, so try changing it to 5.46 as an example.

[Ryan1976]

Oddly, this worked.  Thanks!