In the UK we have some energy saving sessions which are announced about a day in advance and during that period we can save money on any reduction in energy usage.
I have an automation which turns off a few big energy consumers but currently this is just an automation with a time trigger and has a fixed one hour wait in it.
This works OK but it is a bit of a faff to remember to disable the automation afterwards, manually amend the start time and duration…
What is the best way to say enter a start time and duration and then have HA do the rest but only run at that date / time for that duration ?
Thanks yes I was looking the helpers but couldn’t see option to set a time trigger based on a helper rather than a fixed time…
That should make things a lot easier thanks.