Automate Drop down Helper

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Hello I use a drop down helper to control all my automations, - sleep, kids sleep, wake- every morning we forget to change the drop down from sleep to wake up and I was wondering if any one knew a way to do this automatically so at 7 the helper changes from sleep to wake or change the drop down to something else to do this.

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Use an automation with a time trigger and input_select.select_option action…

trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "07:00:00"
condition: []
action:
  - service: input_select.select_option
    target:
      entity_id: input_select.YOUR_HELPER
    data:
      option: wake up
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Thank you so much i been racking my brain trying to work out how to do thi.

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In case you want to add additional triggers and conditions to the same automation I mocked this up to show how it could be done. The conditions keep it monday-friday and the trigger id’s allow for choose statement in actions.

  id: 'Control Helper Actions'
  alias: 'Control Helper Actions'
  description: Set the value of the helper based on time
  trigger:
  - id: 'wakeup'
    platform: time
    at: input_datetime.wake_up
  - id: 'sleep'
    platform: time
    at: input_datetime.sleep
  - id: 'bedtime'
    platform: time
    at: input_datetime.bedtime
  condition:
  - condition: time
    weekday:
      - mon
      - tue
      - wed
      - thu
      - fri
  action:
  - choose: 
    - conditions: "{{ trigger.id == 'wakeup' }}"
      sequence:
      - service: input_select.select_option
        target:
          entity_id: input_select.YOUR_HELPER
        data:
          option: wakeup
    - conditions: "{{ trigger.id == 'sleep' }}"
      sequence:
      - service: input_select.select_option
        target:
          entity_id: input_select.YOUR_HELPER
        data:
          option: sleep
    - conditions: "{{ trigger.id == 'bedtime' }}"
      sequence:
      - service: input_select.select_option
        target:
          entity_id: input_select.YOUR_HELPER
        data:
          option: bedtime
    default: []
  mode: single

I thought this might be your next requirement.