Troubleshooting a simple automation that didn't trigger

@chewitt86 wrote:

In my attempt to learn Home Assistant all it’s different facets I am attempting some very basic automations. Simply put I have an automation that will create a notification in Home Assistant when I enter a specific area. The code I am using is:

- alias: Notify HA when James is at Didcot
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - entity_id: person.james
    event: enter
    platform: zone
    zone: zone.didcot_station
  condition: []
  action:
  - data:
      message: James is at Didcot
    service: persistent_notification.create

Last night, the automation worked fine. This morning when I entered the zone again nothing happened. I could see within the front end that the person was polling as being in the zone but for some reason it didn’t trigger. Is there an easy way for me to troubleshoot why?
I looked in the logbook and I could see the entity entering the zone.
I checked the logs and there were no obvious errors around that time.
So I am a little stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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