Imap_email_content event trigger not working for me

Hi,

I’m trying to setup an IMAP event trigger. When a new email from a specific recipient with a number X in the body comes in, activate my water heater for X minutes. The email body has only the number in it.

I setup the following in configuration.yaml:

sensor:
  - platform: imap_email_content
    server: imap.gmail.com
    port: 993
    name: "email"
    username: XXX
    password: xxx
    senders:
      - XXX@gmail.com

template:
- sensor:
      - name: "Water Heater Manual Time"
        unit_of_measurement: "min"
        state: >
          {% set heater_time = state_attr('sensor.email','body') | int %}
          {{ heater_time }}

I see the email come in:

from: XXX@gmail.com
subject: Water Heater On
date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 01:08:54 -0800
body: 4

and I successfully see the sensor state update with the correct values for each email being received./

When I setup my automation though, I can’t seem to be able to get the event to trigger when a number X larger than 0 comes in. the event never gets triggered - even though under developer tools I can see the value for sensor.water_heater_manual_time gets updated correctly. This is my automation:

alias: Set water heater on - email time
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.water_heater_manual_time
    above: '0'
condition: []
action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: XXX (I deleted this for this post)
    entity_id: switch.water_heater
    domain: switch
  - delay: >-
      {{ '00:{:02}:00'.format(states('sensor.water_heater_manual_time') | int)
      }}
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: XXX (I deleted this for this post)
    entity_id: switch.water_heater
    domain: switch
mode: single

Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated!

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