Adding time conditions to notification

Configuration
1

I have a garage door open alert:

garage_door:
  name: Garage door is open
  entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_door_open
  state: "on"
  repeat:
    - 10
    - 20
    - 30
    - 60
    - 120
  can_acknowledge: true
  skip_first: true
  title: "Garage door"
  message: >
    The garage door is open
  done_message: "The garage door is now closed"
  notifiers:
    - PushoverAlexa

The notifier ‘PushoverAlexa’ is a service that sends to both Pushover and Alexa. I also have a PushoverOnly notifier.

What I want to do here is add both notifiers and trigger the PushoverOnly one if the time is 20:00 - 07:00, else trigger the PushoverAlexa notifier.

Is that possible here? Thanks!

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2

Not within the Alert configuration itself. See the docs for advice:

template:
  - binary_sensor:
      - name: "Garage door open 2000-0700"
        state: "{{ 'off' if 7 < now().hour < 20 else states('binary_sensor.garage_door_open') }}"

then you’d need two Alerts.

3

Thanks!

Doesn’t look like it’s possible to add time conditions to the notify config either.

What do people generally do when they want different notify destinations at different times?

4

Two sensors and two Alerts, one for each sensor with the appropriate notifier.

template:
  - binary_sensor:
      - name: "Garage door open 2000-0700"
        state: "{{ 'off' if 7 < now().hour < 20 else states('binary_sensor.garage_door_open') }}"
      - name: "Garage door open 0700-2000"
        state: "{{ states('binary_sensor.garage_door_open') if 7 < now().hour < 20 else 'off' }}"
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5

Thank you!