You can find your answers as for the above quote. The time MUST be set in HH:MM format HA Scheduler Addon hassio-addon michelebossa (Michele Bossa) April 14, 2020, 11:00am #1 Hi All, I have made a New addon to handle a simple week schedule to turn on or off the entities on Home Assistant. A pretty simple example is another scheduler. You signed in with another tab or window. Based on your feedback and that of others, I can determine if this should be a priority. Having discovered it only a few weeks ago Home Assistant is fantastic and has HUGE potential but the out-of-box experience is far more frustrating than it needs to be and the learning curve is quite steep, I cannot currently see myself recommending it to non-technical people who could benefit from the lack of cloud dependence but do not wish to spend hours perusing forums and tinkering with yaml files. Control repeat behaviour after triggering. but i dont know if this is possible with static json files. You can set for every days of week a trigger based on time or sunset/sunrise + offset. So Ive just created it on my own. After you designate the Scheduler assistant mailbox, Cortana will be available to schedule meetings on behalf of your users. WebYou can find the calendar dashboard in the main sidebar of your Home Assistant instance. WebYou can find the calendar dashboard in the main sidebar of your Home Assistant instance. Use a State Trigger to detect when the schedule entity changes state from off to on (a scheduled time period has started) and from on to off (a scheduled time period has finished). In this case, you can add new events by clicking the Add event button in the lower right corner of the calendar dashboard. Almost all existing consumer home automation solutions are fatally flawed in that they are completely dependent on the cloud infrastructure they are locked into. Covers work beautifully in my setup. Hi petro, (Imagine it would if it supports generic switches), Hi @Coedy Since then, community members have introduced their own solutions but none of the scope that was to be the official Scheduler. As far as I'm aware, Automations and maybe scenes are the only way to set this up, and frankly, it's pretty limited and frustrating. Simple automation that turns a light on/off according to a schedule entity. You will need it this as well. WebThis is a Lovelace card for Home Assistant that can be used to create a time schedule for your smart devices. Likewise. I posted the link for @Coedy, because he asked for heating support. Then, they can add a message and click Send. It will automatically place a check-mark next to the topics title which signals to other users that this topic has been resolved. WebSchedy is a highly-configurable, comfortable to use multi-purpose scheduler for Home Assistant that controls different types of actors such as switches and thermostats based on powerful rules while still facilitating manual intervention at any time. A tag already exists with the provided branch name. I developed a custom component (integration) and learned its architecture and it is really good. Thank you. They expect X but discover it is Y. You can download the files directly from GitHub and add them to your HA config, but also HACS is supported. Make sure you have HACS installed. People looking for a consumer-oriented experience (SmartThings, Wink, Philips Hue, etc) have come to the wrong place. Webhomeassistant-scheduler A basic scheduler integration for HomeAssistant This component is fully functional but needs some testing and user feedback before submitting it to Home Assistant core. Its just that I see HUGE potential and some relatively minor improvements that could greatly improve usability. This looks good @ArthurDent1975 I hope I was clear. In top of the screen click the tab: Helpers. Is there something else I should be doing? but i dont know if this is possible with static json files. You can also look at this link to see it written out in yaml. Very nicely done. The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence detection as part of your automations. What I have done so far in the yaml config was not that complicatet. WebHome Assistant Climate Scheduler A Home Assistant component to facilitate the automation of climate entities. configuration. I have worked professionally as a software QA engineer for many years so I tend to focus on the faults and deficiencies, and a significant part of my work is trying to look at software from the perspective of a user. WebThe Calendar card displays your calendar entities in a month, day and list view (7 days).. Screenshot of the Calendar card. The integration can be used to define rules (schedules) such as: These rules are represented as switch entities in HA. Like set climate to 21, but only if somebody is at home. A scheduler controls its assigned climate entities based on user defined profiles and schedules. and then choose the Schedule option, or click the My button below. An Home Assistant AddOn to schedule entities on/off on weekly base - GitHub - arthurdent75/SimpleScheduler: An Home Assistant AddOn to schedule entities on/off on weekly base If you also like so much my work and you want to convince me to stay up at night on that just buy me a beer CIAO! For the first, it is working fine. Ive seen in your code you already handle it. Many users have walked the same road as you do, so its usually a quick fix. This mismatch causes frustration and the common complaint Its too difficult. Thats just another way of saying I didnt expect to have to learn so much to use it.. In HA, go to Configuration > Integrations. config data) because you want to keep that between HA restarts then Im not sure whats the best way, but I know a common solution is to output such things to a file. Use the Microsoft 365 admin center to create a user mailbox. Scheduled tasks are in my opinion one of the most important points for home automation. These statistics will represent your entire Home Assistant instance, giving you insight in how your hardware is handling your day to day tasks. Hi @Se7enair Question: How to Use the Scheduler / Helper Function in the 2022.9 Release. You can create new rules, modify existing rules and temporarily disable rules. This is an open source product, everything is going to be a bit of a challenge to set up. The scenario could be having the lights come on at a certain time but knowing youll be away on a particular day, you turn it off for that day and then put it back on again, when your schedule returns to normal. A scheduler controls its assigned climate entities based on user defined profiles and schedules. How do I control my lawn irrigation using irrigation unlimited integration, Room by room heating with smart thermostat and zigbee valves, How to run automation at first Satureday of month. {{ trigger.to_state.state }} to homeassistant.turn_{{ trigger.to_state.state }}, Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled. A single switch to turn this behavior on and off could be manually flipped or automated by other events by more advanced users. your next beer is paid i just automated all the switches on the road and removed the previous automation. See it in action: Installation click to show installation instructions Ideally, for example, my wife could change schedules for heating in a graphical interface after the structure is configured accordingly under the hood. It could be input slider or number, but input number would do the job just fine. But it requires some javascript and a little effort to achieve that. interface, by using this My button: If the above My button doesnt work, you can also perform the following steps As far as I'm aware, Automations and maybe scenes are the only way to set this up, and frankly, it's pretty limited and frustrating. I hope you will get my point, I call service.turn_on and service.turn_off which works for both switches and lights. For something like am alarm clock I use time triggers as well. Last but not the least, Implement a condition engine in the addon would be very very very very complicated. I can imagine people dont like setting up the scheduler-app, so I will definitely investigate if I could merge all its functionality with the custom component. HELP - How to Turn on switch at adjustable time, turn off switch at adjustable time? Three different options for setting up the thermostat: Week Scheduler (with Away mode) Countdown; Manual; State report through a NEST style thermostat: OFF; ON Idle; Heat; Away mode (that limits the maximum temperature) Chart; "Turn on heating in 8 hours"), How to: HA controlled DIY pet feeder with camera and laser, Turns on at a specific time and turns off after a given time. Other noteworthy changes WebIf they click Tentative and Propose New Time, they get a dialog box that looks a lot like the Scheduling Assistant. Also the groups/domains/entities configurations are currently mandatory, meaning that you will have to put at least 1 item (so above example is also close to a minimum configuration). Once I switched my development to a new approach of building a custom component directly in HA - my work gained traction with users and people just started using it because it was easy, as easy as other integrations in HA. You can choose to trigger a schedule at sunrise or sunset and add an offset. But I dont know if they became more reliable over time. Automation to switch on and off on 15 minutes off 10 minutes? Upcoming breaking change in the Template integration, Create persistent virtual sensors and group them, Configure Timer to start/stop with Time input, Eurotronic Spirit Thermostats firmware issues. There is simple way to make automatic schedule (time on , time on off , days etc) for each deviceby using UI. If nothing happens, download GitHub Desktop and try again. HA definitely needs something like this! Id like to respectfully request if this could be expanded to include input_booleans and automatons as well? WebThis is a Lovelace card for Home Assistant that can be used to create a time schedule for your smart devices. Maybe you have to redo the engine to make it more user friendly (to install) but Im sure it will be worth it. You can, then, open the proposal and decide whether to Accept it, Delete it or Reply to the proposal. Adding Schedule to your Home Assistant instance can be done via the user Hass.io addons are basically a container. Scheduling lights throughout the day, or over weekends? For example: Alias for the schedule. Maybe it works but at the wrong time! HELP - How to Turn on switch at adjustable time, turn off switch at adjustable time? Scheduled tasks are in my opinion one of the most important points for home automation. Turn a light on for a set amount of time when motion is detected, also extremely common this is already reasonably well supported by an automation blueprint. In the table click the 'Scheduler' device, and you should see the Device info. In order for the newly added integration to be loaded, HA needs to be restarted. Does it support sunset / sunrise? * and light.*. Thanks This widget allows you to control the climate element of the Home Assistant, expanding its functionality. Remove scheduler from HA: Use a State Trigger to detect when the schedule entity changes state from off to on (a scheduled time period has started) and from on to off (a scheduled time period has finished). What impact would this have on overall system performance and CPU usage? Upload it (with some documentation) to Github and have a word with an author of HACS. Then the Scheduler Card might be a good choice. I think HA has extensive possibilities, but almost everything requires YAML skills. I made some progress with the custom_component, the timekeeping which was done in the Node.js app, is now a part of the custom_component. You have to type though, not click interface. See here: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/d058802325598ab44e319f65525045295781e366/homeassistant/components/google/init.py#L392. I dont think you have tried the Scheduler Card yet. Im fixing the last bugs. Here are a few others: Thank you for sharing this useful addition to Home Assistant. Introduction Home assistant does not have a native GUI for handling this, and most are using automations to change the setpoints. Click the add button I think what youre looking for is State Attributes. Step 3: Add integration to HA (<--- this is a step that a lot of people forget). Yeap, you could use that or just register your component to listen for a proper time-date event. If something doesnt fire tat means either integration (component) issue, or automation conditions were not fulfilled. A scheduler entity defines an action at a certain time, for example 'turn on my lamp at automations and templates. At first, as i said, conditions and supporting climate entitites. Well done! HA is very reliable in my opinion. I cant see how to give you feedback on Github, so Ive done it here instead. I use a couple of automations with time trigger and they never disappointed me. Hi Taras, You need to learn yaml. WebHome Assistant Climate Scheduler A Home Assistant component to facilitate the automation of climate entities. -, I set a timer but it switchs on/off at a wrong time @ArthurDent1975 at first I would start to support climate entities. Weird. Schedy seems to be a possible solution. Thats all small improvements that make sense in my opinion. Google-Nest Offical Device Access Console Finally Released! A simple scheduler and a universal scheduler. Once event fires your code will intercept it and can act upon it. https://github.com/michelebossa/HA-Scheduler One from On-to-Off and the other from Off-to-On? But as I said in main post, it has to be easy. The best place to start is the link I provided, which is the automation editor. My wife only use the android app. Trigger Type: Time As with many engineers, once I solve the difficult technical problems Ive been obsessing over I often have trouble finding motivation to tie up the loose ends and fix the stuff I planned to fix later. It would be great if we could come up with 5-10 common user scenarios and make sure that they are as painless as possible to set up out of the box. I cant see on github how to provide feedback or request something. The timezone used by the addon is written down in the grey footer. Automations will adjust the target temperature based on the current thermostat mode. That was a great idea with shading the days that are not enabled as well, This looks like a really nice addon. If you set multiple times in one box do not use commas or other chars as separator. They can change the Start or End times, and click Propose Time. In this case, you can add new events by clicking the Add event button in the lower right corner of the calendar dashboard. Settings -> Devices & Services -> Helpers. You can create new rules, modify existing rules and temporarily disable rules. I am not much of a python wizard, so the custom component I made is now very simple, it only forward calls from the Lovelace card to the node.js app through MQTT. Each scheduler is represented as a switch entity which can be toggled on or off. any idea how I could switch the helper apart from the schedule? For a while I have been looking for an easy way to set up and manage the automations that control them. After the Scheduler assistant mailbox has been created, you must designate the mailbox as the Scheduler assistant mailbox. Restart HA to make all traces of the component disappear. But I saw there is there is a straight-forward method to set timers within the custom component, so it seems quite possible. 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