Any better way for days of the week picker

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Hi all
I’ve been browsing round looking for a simple way of implementing a weekly day checker that I could use in automations (e.g. my kid has PE on Wed and Thu so remind me on those days to pack his kit). But the way used is to add an input boolean for each day. That seems quite messy to have 7 different entities for what is 1 list. Is there a simpler way of doing it? I’ve also seen you can use a calendar but that would spam the calendar with repeating entries every week.
Thanks
Alan

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Hi Alan, you can use multiple calendars and depending on what device you are using, display only what you need.

Also, if you use a HA calendar just for this and create automations from it, you only have to add the schedules and the automation will do it’s work.

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There’s the weekly schedule helper.

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Or a simple template sensor could give you one sensor to use for day of week conditions in automations.

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Thanks for the responses. I’ll look into those.

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It would be nice if we had a dashboard card for the Schedule helper. But that seems a low priority as the request has been up for a while. As it is now you have to click on the entity and then the settings to change it. Lovelace card for schedule-helper

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There is also this custom scheduler-component which goes with scheduler-card in HACS;

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Another option is to use the Workday integration.

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The workday one looks exactly what I’m after. I just need to see how easy it is (with my limited knowledge) to set up a frontend way of easily picking/changing those daya

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Sorry, it is not what you are after. There is no easy way to edit a TOD sensor from your dashboard. It’s a “set and forget” kind of thing.

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Damn. Oh well. Will continue looking at how I can get the calendar working better.
I’ve got the binary sensor working for now but it’s just messy.
Thanks for all the replies

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Tom is right that it can’t be edited from a Dashboard card… but it can be edited relatively easily completely in the UI, through the Integration settings.

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IMHO working with a calendar has multiple advantages:

  • you don’t need to use HA for it, just ‘any’ digital calendar that can be synced with HA
  • easy to use and plan ahead since this is quite natural
  • can be used by multiple people
  • can be used for only this purpose so I will not ‘pollute’ any other calendar
  • if using digital calendars anyway, you immediately see if/how it fits in the overall schedule
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And stupidly I was talking about the TOD sensor, not Workday sensor. :man_facepalming: