Any good example of X-Mas lights ON/OFF... automation?

Third party integrations
1

I looked for some example, but could not find fast solution… I have ‘Sonoff switch’ integrated with ‘ESPHome’
I need, example:

  • ON; work-days at 05:00AM
  • OFF; work-days at 06:30AM
  • ON; work-days at 04:00PM
  • OFF; work-days at 11:30PM
  • ON; weekend at 06:00AM
  • OFF; weekend at 07:00AM
  • ON; weekend at 03:00PM
  • OFF; weekend at 03:30AM

If possible to easy modify, not in the ‘.yaml’, but on the ‘card’ with mouse click, etc.

2

Not on the card, but you can use the automation editor.

3

Well, yes… But maybe someone already did something more sophisticated,…
And can share the settings/code…

4

Just turning a switch on or off at a time, can’t make it more sophisticated

- id: '1570596979101'
  alias: xmas_lights_on_workdays_morning
  trigger:
  - at: '05:00'
    platform: time
  condition:
    condition: time
    weekday:
    - mon
    - tue
    - wed
    - thu
    - fri
  action:
  - data:
      entity_id: switch.name_of_your_sonoff
    service: switch.turn_on
5

Yes, but this is fixed and running all the time… If you want to modify (because of party or friends coming,…), you must go to the automation and make changes… Right?

6

No you don’t. You just on the switch in the frontend.

7

Yes, you can manually ON/OFF.
But if you would like to change from ‘04:00PM’ till ‘04:30PM’ and forget; then you must go to ‘automation’. And make changes…
My question was: if someone invented ‘code’ to do the changes in the ‘card’…?

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8

If you want to be able to change times easier replace your time trigger with an ‘input_datetime:’

input_datetime:
  open_curtains_time_early:
    has_date: false
    has_time: true

- alias: Open Curtains Early
  trigger:
    - platform: template
      value_template: "{{ states('sensor.time') == (states.input_datetime.open_curtains_time_early.attributes.timestamp | int | timestamp_custom('%H:%M', False)) }}"

That’s how I do it for my curtains.

Have a look in my GitHub for the full setup. curtains_blinds.yaml
Also if you look in the heating one you can see how to have conditions for specific days of the week. Or even use Google calendar etc.

9

Yes, this is close that what I wanted… I’ll look. Thx…