I think the biggest improvement for now would be conditions. there is someone that wished to have a control panel to automate lights,switches and more? "Turn on heating in 8 hours"). - To add the Calendar card to your user interface, click the menu (three dots at the top right of the screen) and then Edit Dashboard.Click the Add Card button in the bottom right corner and select from the card picker.. All options for this card Thank you! The configuration of your schedules is stored in the .storage folder in the HA configuration directory, in a file called scheduler.storage. Of course, its the same with my wife. WebWorkday. The timezone used by the addon is written down in the grey footer. In this case, you can add new events by clicking the Add event button in the lower right corner of the calendar dashboard. When the scheduler integration will be ready, this addon will become useless. They can change the Start or End times, and click Propose Time. Else, make sure to include this file in your backup. - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - In HA, go to Configuration > Integrations. i really like your user interface for the switches clean and well arranged. Climate - how to turn on only at specific time? With a mobile-friendly Lovelace card for managing it. I use a couple of automations with time trigger and they never disappointed me. This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. Look at the two automation links on the right side of the page. What is the best way to control Eurotronic Spirit Z-Wave thermostats in a time and week This component can really be a HA smash hit! The automation in the background is really simplistic and took loads of lines. You might need to clear you browser cache for the integration to show up. A 30-day retention policy is This helps to understand how things should be done. Maybe you have to redo the engine to make it more user friendly (to install) but Im sure it will be worth it. The time tracking and execution of the action happens on the background. 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). Simple configuration via gui is probably not the first priority for a programmer. There is simple way to make automatic schedule (time on , time on off , days etc) for each deviceby using UI. Hi petro, You can also click the following button to be redirected to the Helpers page of your Home Assistant instance. Just off the top of my head I can think of a few things that I would expect 90% of home automation users are going to want to implement. Note that only the parameters that should be changed have to be provided, if a parameter is not provided, the previous value will be kept. The idea is that it has to be simple, so that my wife could use it. It will automatically place a check-mark next to the topics title which signals to other users that this topic has been resolved. Try to reload the data by click on refresh button, Brilliant!! Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, New Lovelace GUI card for per-day schedule actions, Week scheduler (including really nice example UI). The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence detection as part of your automations. On the other hand, there are obviously many web designers who come up with really nice solutions for a successful Lovelace frontend. Yes I understand this, and my comment was not meant as criticism. For example, the garden season starts. So that the lights will only be turned on, when the sun is below the horizon. I made a very crude version of this as a picture elements card, just to control my heating. To clarify. Does it support sunset / sunrise? It is a worthy if not always achievable for practical reasons goal of any project to be accessible to as wide a range of people as possible. Another option could be a combination of Google Calendar and MQTT Messages. (Did I say very?). Correct; theres no officially-supported scheduler. The name will also be used for the entity_id of the schedule. I hope I was clear. And, as often said: All things seem possible in May!. I mean that first I choose which device I want control , second what the time for turn on and off, and last one which days this schedule should work. More entities: Im not sure it would be cozy. I have HA installed on an Intel NUC based on Ubuntu and Docker containers. A scheduler entity defines an action at a certain time, for example 'turn on my lamp at WebHome Assistant Climate Scheduler A Home Assistant component to facilitate the automation of climate entities. Uuhm, I am not familiar with HA add-ons. You can treat these entities in the same way as other switch entities in HA, meaning that you could place them in any Lovelace card for quick access. It would stand a better chance of maturing than half a dozen separate community ad-ons that duplicate a lot of each others goals. A single switch to turn this behavior on and off could be manually flipped or automated by other events by more advanced users. It was easier this way. A simple scheduler and a universal scheduler. *. But for more advanced config - yeah, YAML is still important. WebUsing other (first party) smart device apps, for example Lifx or Shelly, I can very very very easily set schedules like "lights on at 7:30 weekdays, "lights on 60% at 5pm all days", etc. But as I said in main post, it has to be easy. Then, they can add a message and click Send. I think what youre looking for is State Attributes. Ok, lets see. Make sure you have HACS installed. The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence detection as part of your automations. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled. Time (in 24 hours format) on which the schedule should trigger, Time (in 24 hours format) on which the timeslot ends, Conditions that should be validated before the action(s) may be executed, Logic to apply when validating multiple conditions, Watch condition entities for changes, repeat the actions once conditions become valid, Entity to which the action needs to be executed, HA service that needs to be executed on the entity. This is very practical with restarts of HA. Is this the way of installing externals when running hass.io? The Schedule helper was introduced in Home Assistant 2022.9, and it's used by, monday|tuesday|wednesday|thursday|friday|saturday|sunday. WebThe schedule integration provides a way to create a weekly schedule in Home Assistant that can be used to trigger or make decisions in your automations and scripts. For the impact on system performances i have no significant difference on my configuration. Scheduled tasks are in my opinion one of the most important points for home automation. Then there is the scheduler-card. Customization The card can be set up in YAML mode or with UI editor. After you designate the Scheduler assistant mailbox, Cortana will be available to schedule meetings on behalf of your users. Thanks! That doesnt exist. Automations which are the core part of the system do not require YAML. If nothing happens, download Xcode and try again. Did you find anything useful? Thanks alot I will try something and I will update. This card is a user-friendly interface for controlling the component. 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. 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. Then the Scheduler Card might be a good choice. 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. It is a bit of a cliche, but did you try (force) refreshing the browser? Many improvements are introduced by volunteers and are based on what they feel is important. 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. I have developed a few open source projects myself that are far, far less complex than Home Assistant and Ill be the first to admit that my documentation sucks. I hope you will get my point, I call service.turn_on and service.turn_off which works for both switches and lights. trigger type is time. Some calendar integrations allow Home Assistant to manage your calendars directly from Home Assistant. See it in action: Installation click to show installation instructions Alternatively, a schedule can also be created and configured via YAML Neat custom integration though. With a mobile-friendly Lovelace card for managing it. Well done neliss. It works nicely together with the Lovelace scheduler card. Scheduled tasks are in my opinion one of the most important points for home automation. I know I could do it with an automation but: would it be possible to include covers to the entities? Woah that looks bad! The end time to mark as inactive/off again. Timer is finished and the action is executed. Learn more. It works! In this case, you can add new events by clicking the Add event button in the lower right corner of the calendar dashboard. You could bring schedy to Lovelace to get a visual interface, but this seems to much work for me. WebYou can find the calendar dashboard in the main sidebar of your Home Assistant instance. Compatibility Nearly all entity types can be scheduled, together with all possible actions (services). A tag already exists with the provided branch name. Awesome thank you very much! For the time being the custom_component still relies on retained messages on MQTT for discovering the entities after restarting HA, but Im looking into a proper way (such as generated YAML or database storage). Its not visual like Simple Scheduler, but it works with heating. The time will automatically be adjusted with updates of the sun entity. Entity ID of the existing scheduler entity. The project could benefit greatly from having a lot more users and to get those users its necessary to look beyond the hardcore tinkerers. Adding Schedule to your Home Assistant instance can be done via the user Some calendar integrations allow Home Assistant to manage your calendars directly from Home Assistant. Same for editing or deleting schedules. Trigger Type: Time I mean that first I choose which device I want control , second what the time for turn on and off, and last one which days this schedule should work. Example like some people set routine turn on their certain lights at certain time and day as at home Each scheduler is represented as a switch entity which can be toggled on or off. To be clear, discussion started a year ago and its unknown how much more time is needed before it is ready to be released. UI layout can also be built quite quickly just by clicking. The service parameters are the same as for scheduler.add, except that the entity_id needs to be provided of the schedule which needs to be modified. I cant see how to give you feedback on Github, so Ive done it here instead. Multiple entity/actions Support for turning on several devices at the same time. it lists all entities that starts with switch. The workday binary sensor indicates whether the current day is a workday or not. but i dont know if this is possible with static json files. I use a couple of automations with time trigger and they never disappointed me. In HA go to Configuration -> Integrations. Maybe I will wait a few to understand what could be useful to community and add those features. Do I have to raise an issue on gitbub, in order to make a feature request? have default_config: in your configuration.yaml, it should already Hi Taras, Thanks petro (Petro) February 25, 2018, 8:04pm #2 This widget allows you to control the climate element of the Home Assistant, expanding its functionality. I have added the covers with version 0.7 ill hope it works. I guess you could say that the scheduler-component is kind of the brains behind the operation. See here: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/d058802325598ab44e319f65525045295781e366/homeassistant/components/google/init.py#L392. Something where you can turn on/off a device at a specific time of day on specific days of the week? The card works on top of the scheduler custom component. 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