Why didnt you use HA event bus for attaching triggers? There is simple way to make automatic schedule (time on , time on off , days etc) for each deviceby using UI. - - You can set for every days of week a trigger based on time or sunset/sunrise + offset. The preferred way to configure a schedule is via the user interface at Settings -> Devices & Services -> Helpers. So its nice to see that people like neliss make life easy by creating great GUI integrated solutions. (RPI 2) About the question on the Script or Automation the answer is yes. Well done neliss. But besides the IT level there is also the user level. Control repeat behaviour after triggering. 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. Disable slider: well, you problably didnt consider the mobile version. (Imagine it would if it supports generic switches), Hi @Coedy Let me know what you think about it. Live view The overview of the card will show how much time remaining until a next action is triggered, for each schedule. Hi, I like your UI style. The start time to mark the schedule as active/on. After the Scheduler assistant mailbox has been created, you must designate the mailbox as the Scheduler assistant mailbox. Then you can change the checkboxes in the edit view to the same circles you use in the normal view. And, as often said: All things seem possible in May!. Thanks. After that it would be nice to get some conditions to control the schedule. Again, I was not intending to criticize, I completely understand the challenges of achieving a polished user experience. 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.. Personally I run HA as a Docker in raspbian, so for me there is no need for using the add-ons, but I could provide support for it, sure. You will be able to add condition checks that check the state of HA entities before the actions are applied. Looks awesome! Click the button with the 3 dots and click 'Uninstall'. I primarly focused on the functionality. 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 Example like some people set routine turn on their certain lights at certain time and day as at home A scheduler controls its assigned climate entities based on user defined profiles and schedules. WTH I can not use the schedule integration for scheduling devices? WebWorkday. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, New Lovelace GUI card for per-day schedule actions, Simple automatic schedule for each device. WebThe preferred way to configure timer helpers is via the user interface at Settings -> Devices & Services -> Helpers and click the add button; next choose the Timer option. Yeah I had seen that but not being a scripter I was immediately put off the idea of even trying it. I put the word simple in the name for a reason I advise you to have a chat with HA core developers in Discord. With a mobile-friendly Lovelace card for managing it. Each scheduler is represented as a switch entity which can be toggled on or off. WebHome Assistant Climate Scheduler A Home Assistant component to facilitate the automation of climate entities. So if you want to keep it simple, its already perfect. You can find your answers as for the above quote. i tried schedy, but it really lacks a graphical user interface. 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. Be sure to set the correct timezone in Settings->General In the Scheduler integration card, you should see a link with '1 device', click it. Features split the days in 4 time segments, separately for workdays and free days (morning, daytime, evening, nighttime) schedule different temperature levels for each time segment adjust the main thermostat based on the average temperature of all the rooms provide an override method for holiday/party mode @Kaizen28, did you test the solution and did it work for you? Question: How to Use the Scheduler / Helper Function in the 2022.9 Release. Also see Services below. 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. I hope I was clear. Thanks petro (Petro) February 25, 2018, 8:04pm #2 It would be easy to tap on that by mistake. Extra parameters to use in the service call. The preferred way to configure a schedule is via the user interface at Settings -> Devices & Services -> Helpers. This could be a very good alternative to schedy! Scheduling in home assistant Configuration Christof January 2, 2021, 4:10pm #1 Do I understand it correctly: in ha there is no powerful scheduler out of the box? Turn a light (or whatever) on/off at set times/days, this should include sunrise/sunset triggers and the ability to specify a random +/- offset to create an impression that someone may be home turning the light on and off. I think the biggest improvement for now would be conditions. To make a minor improvement to use it with everything that can be turned on or off: @huuub I think you need to change homeassistant. WebIf they click Tentative and Propose New Time, they get a dialog box that looks a lot like the Scheduling Assistant. Maybe you have to redo the engine to make it more user friendly (to install) but Im sure it will be worth it. Of course it is true that even a free project should take into account what normal users need. Thank you. For example: Alias for the schedule. A scheduler entity defines an action at a certain time, for example 'turn on my lamp at In addition, the following services are available. WebIf they click Tentative and Propose New Time, they get a dialog box that looks a lot like the Scheduling Assistant. Home Assistant that can be used to trigger or make decisions in your This will not show any history but will display 5 minutes of live data once you load the page. Customization The card can be set up in YAML mode or with UI editor. And there is also google calendar integration that can help you in scheduling recurring meeting. Are two Automation routines required? This is an open source product, everything is going to be a bit of a challenge to set up. 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; Icon to display in the frontend for this schedule. The project could benefit greatly from having a lot more users and to get those users its necessary to look beyond the hardcore tinkerers. This is close to what you are looking for: I did create a timer that would work on any entity using a handful of components and automations, but you are creating a timer yourself. We have to take into account here that we are in a non-commercial environment. Yeap, you could use that or just register your component to listen for a proper time-date event. Sure thing! I dont think you have tried the Scheduler Card yet. "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. Just for my trace of new request i have opened these issue ill hope to add this in a very short time. You can choose to trigger a schedule at sunrise or sunset and add an offset. It would be the foundation upon which a GUI could expose its scheduling abilities. I think HA has extensive possibilities, but almost everything requires YAML skills. Thank you Taras for guiding me. You can download the files directly from GitHub and add them to your HA config, but also HACS is supported. Home Assistant Core 2022.5! Your addon is exactly what I was looking for!! Trigger Type: Time My wife only use the android app. WebThe Calendar card displays your calendar entities in a month, day and list view (7 days).. Screenshot of the Calendar card. The time tracking and execution of the action happens on the background. I would like to drop the MQTT asap as well, but this was the best i could achieve for now. You can use it to define how your workweek looks like and which days are your holidays. https://github.com/michelebossa/HA-Scheduler, New feature to be able to turn individual days on or off, Add brightness set for light entity (BETA), Fix group name into addon_stdin functionality, Check at reboot if there is an entity to set on based the scheduled time, Add new option in config to set background color, Add temperature set for climate entity (BETA), Add hassio.addon_stdin function to enable or disable the schedule, Add the possibility to turn individual days on or off (Request 1). The idea is that it has to be simple, so that my wife could use it. Thanks! The timezone used by the addon is written down in the grey footer. also, this is a notification and service that I use. In order for the newly added integration to be loaded, HA needs to be restarted. 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. Step 3: Add integration to HA (<--- this is a step that a lot of people forget). I use a couple of automations with time trigger and they never disappointed me. Condition: Thats far away from the pourpose of this addon. Some calendar integrations allow Home Assistant to manage your calendars directly from Home Assistant. Try to reload the data by click on refresh button, Brilliant!! Use the Microsoft 365 admin center to create a user mailbox. You will need it this as well. What does HVAC_MODE_AUTO exactly do for thermostat? It works nicely together with the Lovelace scheduler card. In stock Home Assistant theres not a very usable time picker car so with this UI Im using a custom card called time-picker-card (also installable using HACS). 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. In my house I have quite some devices that I want to control based on the time and day. People will really appreciate it. so just the basics. A scheduler entity defines an action at a certain time, for example 'turn on my lamp at But for more advanced config - yeah, YAML is still important. Else, make sure to include this file in your backup. Thanks. I can search it for you. Just wondering how it scales up with lots of entities. WebWorkday. What experiences have you made what runs stable? Entities that are part of the scheduler integrations will have entity id following according to pattern switch.schedule_, where is a randomly generated 6 digit code. thanks a lot for this app! You need to learn yaml. Hi All, There was a problem preparing your codespace, please try again. Keep up the great work! Wow! I have added the covers with version 0.7 ill hope it works. 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. "Turn on heating in 8 hours"). Then whenever you want to store something in there just call self.async_schedule_update_ha_state(True) and you should be fine. A quick look on this page tells me an HA add-on is little more than a Docker container, so it definitely looks doable. A condition is used for defining a rule that needs to be validated, before the scheduled action(s) may be executed. Hopefully someone has a simpler solution to make a input for 24hrs basis without preset every hour and minute timer, it would be saving so much time @ArthurDent1975 at first I would start to support climate entities. Many Git commands accept both tag and branch names, so creating this branch may cause unexpected behavior. Custom component for HA that enables the creation of scheduler entities. Then, they can add a message and click Send. i really like your user interface for the switches clean and well arranged. Checkbox: Yes, that was my first idea. James for presence simulation you can simply create automations via the GUI, right? WebScheduler Addon for Home Hassistant This addon handles a week of configuration for: automation climate cover fan input_boolean light script switch Edit section: We can make a group and set on or off action every day with following format: No Fill ( No action on this day ) HH:MM:SS ( Time format ) Find the card for scheduler integration, click the button with the 3 dots, and click 'Delete'. More entities or conditions got the potential to make it a difficult Scheduler. You configure the card (in YAML) so that others can use it (in the UI). Choose Integrations under HACS. Simple automation that turns a light on/off according to a schedule entity. In HA, go to Configuration -> Integrations. I have HA installed on an Intel NUC based on Ubuntu and Docker containers. I cant see on github how to provide feedback or request something. You should know that there once was a plan to implement a Scheduler function that was led by members of the core development team. Use the Microsoft 365 admin center to create a user mailbox. Make sure you have HACS installed. I hope I was clear. Automations which are the core part of the system do not require YAML. What I have done so far in the yaml config was not that complicatet. Your GUI is very good. Then, they can add a message and click Send. I was hoping for a feature to be able to turn individual days on or off, without having to remove a time. Long story short, they encountered an intractable architectural problem and the project was abandoned. I tried this card with the default HA theme, do you maybe use an alternative theme? See it in action: Installation click to show installation instructions Or you can make a second addon. Conditions are greatly implemented in HA, and they are mented for advanced user. schedule.reload service allows one to reload the schedules configuration without restarting Home Assistant itself. This would be great, thank you for adding. i tried schedy, but it really lacks a graphical user interface. They can change the Start or End times, and click Propose Time. Create helper button. Just wondering why it needs MQTT and node.js? I guess you could say that the scheduler-component is kind of the brains behind the operation. Have seen Scheduler card of Nellis already which seems to be a smart aproach. The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence detection as part of your automations. It is in alpha stage. It works nicely together with the Lovelace scheduler card. This widget allows you to control the climate element of the Home Assistant, expanding its functionality. Select workdays or weekends in the scheduler and the schedules are adjusted for it. Here are a few others: When installed with HACS: really good would be thermostats. If you run into trouble setting up the integration in HA or you dont know how to use the scheduler, please ask your questions here in this thread. Scheduler integration for HA Yes I understand this, and my comment was not meant as criticism. This addon want to add something that was missing in HA, for (almost) everyday use. If time is provided: the schedule overlapping the provided time is triggered. be there by default unless you removed it. This component can really be a HA smash hit! Correct; theres no officially-supported scheduler. It is a bit of a cliche, but did you try (force) refreshing the browser? It worked well, but administrating this was sometimes a bit painful. Thanks petro (Petro) February 25, 2018, 8:04pm #2 Optionally also conditions can be specified that need to be validated before the actions may be fired. What is the scheduler integra. But as I said in main post, it has to be easy. 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. 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. I have plenty of time triggers and theyve never missed a beat. If you removed default_config: from your configuration, After you designate the Scheduler assistant mailbox, Cortana will be available to schedule meetings on behalf of your users. Scheduled tasks are in my opinion one of the most important points for home automation. Well, to be honest HA requires less and less YAML skills almost with ebvery release. WebThis is a custom component for Home Assistant, that is used for controlling your existing devices based on time. Scheduling lights throughout the day, or over weekends? There is some improvements towards GUI based configuration, but still it is not as easy to use as I wanted it. Ok guys, if someone wants to beta test the add-on, I published it on GitHub. Its not visual like Simple Scheduler, but it works with heating. The card automatically checks which entities you have in HA and they will show up with their actions. I posted the link for @Coedy, because he asked for heating support. Sun integration The scheduler component has support for the sun integration. The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence detection as part of your automations. Installation Copy the schedules folder into your custom_components subfolder of your Home Assistant config dir. UI layout can also be built quite quickly just by clicking. I developed a custom component (integration) and learned its architecture and it is really good. 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. To be clear, discussion started a year ago and its unknown how much more time is needed before it is ready to be released. interface, by using this My button: If the above My button doesnt work, you can also perform the following steps This helps users find answers to similar questions. The 'firmware version' represents the installed version number. Im fixing the last bugs. Persistent storage Once a schedule is created with the card, it will be added to HA and starts watching the time. Same for editing or deleting schedules. This can be used to make automations that act differently on weekdays vs weekends. 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. You can also set up your own entity configurations with custom actions, and define your own entity groups (YAML only). 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. 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. 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. WebScheduler Addon for Home Hassistant This addon handles a week of configuration for: automation climate cover fan input_boolean light script switch Edit section: We can make a group and set on or off action every day with following format: No Fill ( No action on this day ) HH:MM:SS ( Time format ) Home assistant does not have a native GUI for handling this, and most are using automations to change the setpoints. What is you favorate? I think what youre looking for is State Attributes. Thank you! The scheduler integration is an alternative for HA automations which use the time or sun as trigger. This certainly includes a scheduler that is easily configurable graphically. 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