Brrr (UK workday sensor)

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I woke up this morning to a cold house. Possibilities ran through my mind in the shower: hallway sensor (DS18B20 + ESP8266) broken / offline? Boiler packed up? Alarm clock actually an hour early?

Logged into HA: everything seemed to be working, but the climate was in night-time mode. It turns out that the workday integration thinks that today is a UK holiday, so was assuming I’d be having a lie-in.

It is a holiday in Scotland (St Andrew’s Day), but that doesn’t affect the rest of the UK, and there’s no way to differentiate in the workday configuration.

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Ah, this is why my alarm didn’t go off this morning as I have that configured to use the workday integration.

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:smiley: that’s brave! I was cold, but at least I wasn’t late for work!

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Ironically I forgot that I actually have the day off today so luckily the alarm not triggering had no consequences.
That said, there’s still a bug in the workday sensor as it shouldn’t have triggered a holiday.

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Must be secretly Scottish.

I’ve updated my config:

- platform: workday
  country: GB
  remove_holidays:
    - '2021-11-30'
    - '2022-11-30'
    - '2023-11-30'

Hopefully the holidays module will have sorted this by 2024.

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My system correctly recognises today is a workday (although ironically I have the day off).

Configuration:

  - platform: workday
    country: England
    workdays: [mon,tue,wed,thu,fri]
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Oh! The integration docs suggest that a country code is required — but if England works then problem solved!

Thanks!

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Bingo, my country code is set to UK so no wonder it failed, I’ll set it to England instead. Great tip!

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Is anyone else’s workday sensor turned on today (in England) when today is the Early May Bank Holiday, even when using the ‘country: England’ code in their config?

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Not here:

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No not with the config I posted previously.

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Mine worked this morning but my config is still set to UK rather than England.

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Ahhh…I hadn’t excluded ‘holiday’ from the config. It now works as intended for me. Thanks!

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In 2022.3 things seem to change for those wanting to use ‘England’.

Looks like you need to specify country and province - see docs at Workday - Home Assistant for a link to the list of provinces… for me the below brought things back to life…

 platform: workday
  country: GB
  province: England
  workdays: [mon, tue, wed, thu, fri]

Hope this helps one of you lot, or anyone stumbling in this thread looking for an answer :slight_smile:

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Yup I got an error in my logs so changed my config and its been OK since

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@squiggleuk @TazUk

Hi,

Is workday registering 29/08/22 as bank holiday for you?

I have the below

# Example 1 configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: workday
    country: GB
    province: England
    workdays: [mon, thu, fri]
    excludes: [sat, sun, holiday]

However my schedule still shows Monday as a working day? is this the same for you guys?

Thanks

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How are you checking the future date?

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I am using the scheduler card to controller a generic thermostat. https://github.com/nielsfaber/scheduler-card

It shows the next run time for any schedule, and it is showing next monday at 7am. If i have my config like as below, it shows next run time as thursday.

binary_sensor:
  - platform: workday
    country: GB
    province: England
    workdays: [thu, fri]
    excludes: [sat, sun, holiday]

So it seems like it isn’t coming through as a holiday date, based on the next run time.

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Ah okay, thanks for explaining (I thought I might be missing some built-in functionality).

I’ve got no ability to look ahead in HA so can’t really help here I’m afraid.

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In fact from playing a bit more, I think it’s actually an issue with the component. I don’t think it has visibility of upcoming holidays. Hard coded reoccurring days, yes but not as hoc holidays.

Thanks for your replies. Will see how it behaves on Monday.