Recall from my earlier post that an incorrect activation was occurring at 1:15 PM. Earlier this morning, before setting up and running my testcases, I started by deleting the devices. After doing so, I verified that the ST app displayed no devices and no automations. I then added the two window shade devices back and set up and ran my tests described above.
Well, it is now 1:23 PM and I just checked the ST app’s history to see if the invisible 1:15 PM automation activated again. Sigh - it did. Even though it activated, at least it didn’t cause any device action, as seen by a lack of such entries in history.
Although that invisible automation now does not cause any device activity, it does leave annoying activation messages in history (yeah, I’m particular that way 
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I really want to avoid resetting my ST hub to factory settings to scrub it, but I also want those annoying activations to go away. I tried one more thing to see if I can get rid of the hidden activations, as follows:
I repeated my above testcase, identical to the automation screen shot from earlier in this post, but the new testcase was set up before 1:30 PM, and was to first create it to activate at 1:35 PM, and then edited to activate at 1:32 PM. I then went into “Automations”, “Delete”, and then instead of deleting selected automations, I clicked “all”.
After 5 minutes or so, 1:32 PM arrived and no activations; so far, so good. Then the critical 1:35 PM rolled around and (oh joy!), no activation occurred. I still need to see whether that pesky 1:15 PM automation activates tomorrow before this can be called a success, but I’m hopeful. I’ll post on that tomorrow.