Automation - Turn Heater On Every 2 Hours

[petro]

add this condition for even:

- condition: template
  value_template: "{{ now().hour % 2 == 0 }}"

add this condition for odd:

- condition: template
  value_template: "{{ now().hour % 2 == 1 }}"

[pokemonas (Valdas)]

thanks Petro.
I’ve done exactly so as “workaround”, I just thought there is more clever solution.
anyway - thanks for quick response.

regards,
Valdas

[petro]

It’s not a work around, it’s the current way unfortunately. Maybe in the future they will add a attribute to trigger that filters even and odd. I doubt it’s even on the dev’s radar. Might want to add a feature request.

[brendan]

Condition would be best way to do the odd hour thing. I don’t think any automation system, commercial or DIY, are granular enough on the triggers to split odd/even hours like that without using a condition.

[solomos (Gerasimos Solomos)]

@petro

  trigger: 
    platform: time
    hour: '/2'
    minutes: 0
    seconds: 0
  condition:
  - condition: time
    after: '23:00:00'
    before: '06:00:00'

so, anyone knows when the automation will run for first time?? at 23.00.00 or 01.00.00 ???

[calisro (Rob)]

‘after’ means 01:00:00

[Tinkerer (aka DubhAd on GitHub)]

@solomos

so, anyone knows when the automation will run for first time?? at 23.00.00 or 01.00.00 ???

Neither

See the time pattern trigger docs:

You can prefix the value with a / to match whenever the value is divisible by that number

Yours will first run at midnight.

[solomos (Gerasimos Solomos)]

thank you! It runs exactly every 2 hours and the first run is at midnight!

thanks