Its just that I see HUGE potential and some relatively minor improvements that could greatly improve usability. 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. At the beginning of my work with my custom integration I developed simple python scripts that sent messages to HA via MQTT. The timezone used by the addon is written down in the grey footer. James for presence simulation you can simply create automations via the GUI, right? Thermostat Card with multiple modes/operations. You need to be careful with your wishes because if you simply call homeassistant.turn_on/turn_off service it might end up like this, tl;dr for automations it should be automation.trigger service rather than homeassistant.turn_on/off. The card automatically checks which entities you have in HA and they will show up with their actions. there is someone that wished to have a control panel to automate lights,switches and more? Home Assistant Core 2022.5! In my house I have quite some devices that I want to control based on the time and day. switch light x or light group Y on at a certain time and off at a certain time At the moment I wonder if I should continue with Schedy or if there is a solution that is stable and relliable and at the same time offers a reasonable GUI. Home assistant does not have a native GUI for handling this, and most are using automations to change the setpoints. Seend me a feedback. Multiple entity/actions Support for turning on several devices at the same time. Click the '+' button on the bottom of the page, search for "scheduler component", choose it, and click install in HACS. Yes I understand this, and my comment was not meant as criticism. Other noteworthy changes More entities or conditions got the potential to make it a difficult Scheduler. really good would be thermostats. Thanks a lot. 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 am aware that it it a bit cumbersome and confusing to configure the card. Timers are also possible, nice to see that people like neliss make life easy by creating great GUI integrated solutions. Trigger Type: Time Awesome thank you very much! Home Assistant that can be used to trigger or make decisions in your Seconds are not allowed - - there is no powerful scheduler out of the box? Sure thing! You can create new rules, modify existing rules and temporarily disable rules. - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - F A Q - - - - - I hope I was clear. A schedule entitys state exports attributes that can be useful in If you removed default_config: from your configuration, This will not show any history but will display 5 minutes of live data once you load the page. Thanks petro (Petro) February 25, 2018, 8:04pm #2 Any feedback will be appreciated. The scheduler integration is an alternative for HA automations which use the time or sun as trigger. But for more advanced config - yeah, YAML is still important. This is all maintained by the scheduler-component. - - Hi everyone. but i dont know if this is possible with static json files. @Kaizen28, did you test the solution and did it work for you? It was rather long for posting here, so i added it to the repo. Use Git or checkout with SVN using the web URL. Likewise. It works nicely together with the Lovelace scheduler card. Ok, lets see. A scheduler controls its assigned climate entities based on user defined profiles and schedules. Yes! manually: From the configuration menu select: Devices & Services. Many users have walked the same road as you do, so its usually a quick fix. Just put the word sunset or sunrise in the time field! Translations The card is available in 10+ languages. Each scheduler is represented as a switch entity which can be toggled on or off. If yours is not there, it can be added with a little bit of help from your side. In addition, the following services are available. Or turn on the radio, set it to FM, and change the volume. Then, they can add a message and click Send. Select workdays or weekends in the scheduler and the schedules are adjusted for it. The preferred way to configure a schedule is via the user interface at Settings -> Devices & Services -> Helpers. You will be able to add condition checks that check the state of HA entities before the actions are applied. WebHome Assistant Climate Scheduler A Home Assistant component to facilitate the automation of climate entities. Ofcourse they will be still there after you restart HA. [NEW ADDON] Simple Scheduler Share your Projects! After the Scheduler assistant mailbox has been created, you must designate the mailbox as the Scheduler assistant mailbox. This can be used to make automations that act differently on weekdays vs weekends. Schedy seems to be a possible solution. GitHub - arthurdent75/SimpleScheduler: An Home Assistant AddOn to schedule Heaty - a flexible heating control, facilitating schedules and manual intervention. The end time to mark as inactive/off again. I realise I could just change the time and so very happy to be using this as it is. A disabled schedule will not keep track of time, and will not execute any actions. Thats all small improvements that make sense in my opinion. A scheduler entity can have the following states: Since schedules follow the switch platform, you can use the switch.turn_on and switch.turn_off services to enable and disable schedules. automations and templates. Some calendar integrations allow Home Assistant to manage your calendars directly from Home Assistant. To me the more components a solution depends on - the worse. You could bring schedy to Lovelace to get a visual interface, but this seems to much work for me. and then choose the Schedule option, or click the My button below. WebThis is a Lovelace card for Home Assistant that can be used to create a time schedule for your smart devices. The schedule integration provides a way to create a weekly schedule in Simple automation that turns a light on/off according to a schedule entity. but i dont know if this is possible with static json files. 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. The start time to mark the schedule as active/on. I developed a custom component (integration) and learned its architecture and it is really good. Almost all existing consumer home automation solutions are fatally flawed in that they are completely dependent on the cloud infrastructure they are locked into. Thanks. A 30-day retention policy is 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; This will not show any history but will display 5 minutes of live data once you load the page. WebThis is a custom component for Home Assistant, that is used for controlling your existing devices based on time. Also see Services below. Automations which are the core part of the system do not require YAML. The 'firmware version' represents the installed version number. (Imagine it would if it supports generic switches), Hi @Coedy The integration can be used to define rules (schedules) such as: Turn on the garden lights at sunset, turn them off at sunrise Set my thermostat to 20C every morning at 8:00 Trigger a script to back-up my HA config, every Sunday at 21:00 I was hoping for a feature to be able to turn individual days on or off, without having to remove a time. However, its a slow process, complicated by the fact theres no published roadmap managed by a central authority (its a community-run project and the core development team vets users contributions). It works nicely together with the Lovelace scheduler card. The workday binary sensor indicates whether the current day is a workday or not. Trigger Type: Time Or you can make a second addon. How do I get my automation to work with the schedule for my security light plug? You can download the files directly from GitHub and add them to your HA config, but also HACS is supported. If something doesnt fire tat means either integration (component) issue, or automation conditions were not fulfilled. "Turn on heating in 8 hours"). 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.. If you set multiple times in one box do not use commas or other chars as separator. What is the scheduler integra. Alternatively, a schedule can also be created and configured via YAML But only when somebody is at home and also the start point should be controlled by the position of the sun. A pretty simple example is another scheduler. In the bottom right, click on the Many improvements are introduced by volunteers and are based on what they feel is important. For issues (bugs) and feature requests, please use GitHub. Be sure to set the correct timezone in Settings->General Like set climate to 21, but only if somebody is at home. Time schemes Time schemes allow you to divide the day in time slots. I want develop generic code that will be good for any device/ switch (scrolling menu maybe?) Are you sure you want to create this branch? Works an absolute charm. There is some improvements towards GUI based configuration, but still it is not as easy to use as I wanted it. In other words, home automation will probably only be accepted by everyone in a building if there are no disadvantages for the normal user. Just for my trace of new request i have opened these issue ill hope to add this in a very short time. Vacation mode, add a collection of lights and switches to a group and have them turn on and off at various intervals to roughly simulate somebody being home and moving about the house. I dont think you have tried the Scheduler Card yet. Thank you for sharing this useful addition to Home Assistant. I use a couple of automations with time trigger and they never disappointed me. Also see Services below. They are friendly and they help a lot. But I saw there is there is a straight-forward method to set timers within the custom component, so it seems quite possible. "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. Is there a solution? I was thinking to use Google Calendar to create the Schedule (easy to use) and then use the Google macros to call to HAs API (using the UrlFetchApp.fetch(HA_url, options); to activate/deactivate different components in HA. yes I know, but can give some guidelines how to do that ? They can change the Start or End times, and click Propose Time. My wife only use the android app. Well done neliss. This is an open source product, everything is going to be a bit of a challenge to set up. WebUse the official Home Assistant apps, a convenient companion to quickly control your devices and be notified when things happen in your home, even on your wrist using the Apple Watch. Automations will adjust the target temperature based on the current thermostat mode. Last but not the least, Implement a condition engine in the addon would be very very very very complicated. And for something like garbage or vacation I have added them into different google calendars. The language setting is automatically detected from your HA account. 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. Home Assistant continues to evolve with the goal of making it more approachable for non-hobbyists. You can set for every days of week a trigger based on time or sunset/sunrise + offset. I could add it, of course. 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. ), because I need to find out how to create entity persistence (without having to define them in YAML). In the meanwhile, I hope it helps the community! We have to take into account here that we are in a non-commercial environment. For example: Alias for the schedule. Ok i have understand you request i think i can do something like this. Id like to respectfully request if this could be expanded to include input_booleans and automatons as well? You can set for every days of week a trigger based on time or sunset/sunrise + offset. People looking for a consumer-oriented experience (SmartThings, Wink, Philips Hue, etc) have come to the wrong place. They can change the Start or End times, and click Propose Time. Node Red Light Scheduler similar function in Home Assistant? You can choose to trigger a schedule at sunrise or sunset and add an offset. Turn a light on at dusk and off at dawn, classic photocontrol behavior, probably nearly as common (domestically) as timers. 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 The entities in HA are created from the scheduler.storage file upon (re)starting HA. They always fire. 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 the table click the 'Scheduler' device, and you should see the Device info. An action is a combination of a HA service with entity_id. A scheduler entity defines an action at a certain time, for example 'turn on my lamp at And, as often said: All things seem possible in May!. Your GUI is very good. just buy me a beer, - 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. Timeplan in Helpers (Weekplan) / more accuracy in Time, Heads up! Then there is the scheduler-card. WebThis is a custom component for Home Assistant, that is used for controlling your existing devices based on time. Make sure you have HACS installed. 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. WebHome Assistant Climate Scheduler A Home Assistant component to facilitate the automation of climate entities. The Node.js app was also responsible for storage of the entities (persistence), this is moved to the custom_component as well. By the way you can never say, Oh my, theres a lot of stuff in here Since about a year ago I stopped using automations with a time: trigger, since they didnt always fire. WebThe Calendar card displays your calendar entities in a month, day and list view (7 days).. Screenshot of the Calendar card. If you don't, run wget -O - https://get.hacs.xyz | bash - in HA. Maybe I will wait a few to understand what could be useful to community and add those features. But if you want to expand the capabilities of your addon, just put my notes to a future feature list and think about it Its not visual like Simple Scheduler, but it works with heating. Weird. 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. In the Scheduler integration card, you should see a link with '1 device', click it. It would be the foundation upon which a GUI could expose its scheduling abilities. 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). Custom component for HA that enables the creation of scheduler entities. Create helper button. If someone would try and do some beta testing, just let me know. 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. 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). This sounds like exactly what I came here looking for, Im going to have to play with a few of these and see which one I like. Actions list may only consist of a single service/service_data combination (multiple actions may only have different entity_id). Hi @Se7enair 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 should know that there once was a plan to implement a Scheduler function that was led by members of the core development team. Just those five use cases ought to cover a vast range of needs, particularly the first four, making that super easy out of the box would make Home Assistant far more approachable, for many less technically inclined folks it might be all they ever need. I tried the addon. I know that I will kick myself but here goes Once I have created a schedule using the new Helpers function in the 2022.9 release, how do I link it to an entity or to an automation? Home assistant does not have a native GUI for handling this, and most are using automations to change the setpoints. Entity will wait for 1 minute and then reset the timer. And there is also google calendar integration that can help you in scheduling recurring meeting. 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. Since I install home-assistant with docker without hassio, Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Simple automatic schedule for each device, https://github.com/denschu/mqtt-google-calendar. The addon is just born! I added the following to my automations.yaml and the event did not trigger, and I dont show any errors in the logfile. After that it would be nice to get some conditions to control the schedule. It was easier this way. At first, as i said, conditions and supporting climate entitites. Very nicely done. you must add it back or, alternatively, schedule: to your This was what I was looking for. Coming soon. What is the best way to control Eurotronic Spirit Z-Wave thermostats in a time and week It also would be nice to select more than one entity. 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. Just wondering why it needs MQTT and node.js? Thank you @SaNewm 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). Each scheduler is represented as a switch entity which can be toggled on or off. Trigger Type: Time If you create a snapshot through HA supervisor, this file should automatically be backed up. I use a couple of automations with time trigger and they never disappointed me. It allows specifying which days of the week will count as workdays and also uses the Python module holidays to incorporate information about region-specific public holidays. Use the Microsoft 365 admin center to create a user mailbox. Conditions Only want to have your robot vacuum start if youre not home? It works nicely together with the Lovelace scheduler card. This is my first addon, so Im a rookie 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? configuration.yaml first, before you can create them via the UI. I didnt try it yet though I am waiting for it to be in a more stable phase and my coding skills are limited. This widget allows you to control the climate element of the Home Assistant, expanding its functionality. The attribute. You can use it to define how your workweek looks like and which days are your holidays. If you like, you can place scheduler-card in any of your Lovelace view. Then, they can add a message and click Send. In order for the newly added integration to be loaded, HA needs to be restarted. A simple scheduler and a universal scheduler. Its difficult to just turn this off, I find bugs and problems in nearly all software I touch. 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. Persistent storage Once a schedule is created with the card, it will be added to HA and starts watching the time. This certainly includes a scheduler that is easily configurable graphically. The workday binary sensor indicates whether the current day is a workday or not. If you want GUI timers on a lot of devices I think it would be easier to use something like Node-REDs Big Timer, but even then it isnt quite what you want. HELP - How to Turn on switch at adjustable time, turn off switch at adjustable time? Then the Scheduler Card might be a good choice. I primarly focused on the functionality. Thank you Taras for guiding me. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled. Thank you. (but Ill give you some UI feedback later) Im having trouble configuring it, mind sharing a full config dump of your card? Sorry, its me who is not being clear. 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