I’m trying to see if there is a ‘not’ in the conditions - I cannot see it but I may just have missed it.
Basically I want an automation to take an action except between certain a certain time in the day so not during that period of time (and specific days).
I’m sure it is obvious but I can’t see how to do it or find a relevant example.
All I can think is to do an or for firing the action between 00:00 to 12:00 OR 14:00 to 23:59. Is that the best solution?
You want a condition like this
condition:
- condition: time
after: '22:30:00'
before: '05:00:00'
This is not a NOT.
The example above will only run the automation between 10:30pm and 5am.
I’m sure you can adjust as needed.
Are the times listed above what you’re looking for if so
condition:
- condition: time
before: '12:00:00'
after: '14:00:00'
Should work? At least I assume it would
Ok great, thanks. I have ended up with this as it was not the same every day 
It is getting your head around the fact the trigger does the action except between the before & after times.
- condition: or
conditions:
- condition: time
after: '16:00:00'
before: '14:30:00'
weekday:
- mon
- tue
- wed
- thu
- condition: time
after: '16:00:00'
before: '12:30:00'
weekday:
- fri
- condition: time
weekday:
- sat
- sun
Cheers.
That depends on how you have the times set up.
the before and after is in relation to midnight (00:00:00).
So “before: 14:30:00” means from midnght to 14:30:00. “after: 16:00:00” means after 16:00:00 but before midnight. so the way you have it it will only fire from midnight to 14:30 or 16:00 till midnight.
If you had the before and after reversed it it would run from 14:30 to 16:00 since the “before: 16:00” is limited by the “after: 14:30” and the “after: 14:30” is limited on the other end by the “before: 16:00”.
Hopefully I didn’t confuse it any more…
No that is fine and exactly what I want. Ididn’t want it to fire between 14:30 to 16:00.