Hi! I want to set a condition that fire a reminder every second week on wednedays. I can’t figure out how to do- plaese help.
You can do the Wednesday bit easy enough:
condition:
condition: time
weekday:
- wed
You will probably have to use an input boolean for the ‘every second week’ bit (unless anyone can come up with a smarter way).
Write an automation to toggle this input boolean every week before Wednesday (every Tuesday at noon for example). So it is on for a week, then off for a week, on for a week, etc…
Then you can just add a condition to check it’s state:
condition:
- condition: time
weekday:
- wed
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.bi_weekly
state: 'on'
Use this thread to figure out what week you are in and then either filter for odd or even weeks…
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This will give you even weeks, add it to your conditions:
{{(as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom ('%U') | int % 2) == 0 }}
change it to ==1 for odd weeks
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Nice! So if the condition is true then it’s fire the actions?
You need a trigger. An easy one would be the time you want the reminder to show.
Then the conditions would be the weekday Wednesdays and the odd/even week.
If all of them are true the action will be performed.
True. Will this work?
alias: Service - notifikation om soptunnan på dagen
trigger:
platform: time
at: '06:00:00'
condition:
- condition: time
weekday:
- wed
- condition: template
value_template: {{(as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom ('%U') | int % 2) == 0 }}
action:
- service: notify.mypushbullet
data:
title: Kom ihåg
message: Ställ ut soptunnan
target: email/[email protected]
- service: notify.mypushbullet
data:
title: Kom ihåg
message: Ställ ut soptunnan
target: email/[email protected]
- service: notify.lg_webos_smart_tv
data:
message: Ställ ut soptunnan idagDid this work for you?
I intergrade Google calender instead.
Hi Henrik,
I’m also using this component, but have you managed to do some sort of Automation based og events from your calendar?
Yes!
alias: Service - notifikation om soptunnan på dagen
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: calendar.privat
to: 'on'
condition:
condition: template
value_template: "{{states.calendar.privat.attributes.message == 'Ställ ut soporna' }}"
action:
- service: notify.mypushbullet
data:
title: Kom ihåg
message: Ställ ut soptunnan
target: email/[email protected]
- service: notify.mypushbullet
data:
title: Kom ihåg
message: Ställ ut soptunnan
target: email/[email protected]
- service: notify.lg_webos_smart_tv
data:
message: Ställ ut soptunnan idag
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Thanks @datamonkey. That worked for me. For future searchers here are 2 automations that fire on alternate weeks using the value_template to identify the week number…
- id: '111'
alias: Email Bin Night Blue
trigger:
platform: time
at: "17:00:00"
condition:
- condition: time
weekday:
- tue
- condition: template
value_template: "{{(as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom ('%U') | int % 2) == 1 }}"
action:
- data:
message: Take out the bins. Tonight it is Recycling (Blue)
title: Bin Night! (blue)
service: notify.gmail
- id: '222'
alias: Email Bin Night Red
trigger:
platform: time
at: "17:00:00"
condition:
- condition: time
weekday:
- tue
- condition: template
value_template: "{{(as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom ('%U') | int % 2) == 0 }}"
action:
- data:
message: Take out the bins. Tonight it is Green Waste (Red)
title: Bin Night! (red)
service: notify.gmail
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thank you using your template this works great.
YOU ROCK.
thank you for this template
you rock.
If you’re interested, you can reduce this:
value_template: "{{(as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom ('%U') | int % 2) == 1 }}"
to this:
value_template: '{{ now().isocalendar().week is odd }}'
Both templates do the same thing; they determine if the current week number is an odd number.
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here is mine for reminder to take cans and if both up. plays a video on tv and announcement on google mini.
- id: '1650599030716'
alias: trash and recycle reminders calendar even days
description: 'play video on TVS and announcement on google mini''s to take up green
recycle and black trash can. '
trigger:
- platform: time
at: '18:29:00'
condition:
- condition: time
weekday:
- wed
before: 00:00:00
after: 00:00:00
- condition: template
value_template: '{{(as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom (''%U'') | int % 2) ==
0 }}'
action:
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.nestmini7847
data:
media_content_id: media-source://tts/cloud?message=both+cans+need+to+go+up+this+week+see+alert+on+tv&language=en-US&gender=female
media_content_type: provider
metadata:
title: both cans need to go up this week see alert on tv
thumbnail: https://brands.home-assistant.io/_/cloud/logo.png
media_class: app
children_media_class:
navigateIds:
- {}
- media_content_type: app
media_content_id: media-source://tts
- media_content_type: provider
media_content_id: media-source://tts/cloud?message=both+cans+need+to+go+up+this+week+see+alert+on+tv&language=en-US&gender=female
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.livingroomtv
data:
media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/bothcans.mov
media_content_type: video/quicktime
metadata:
title: bothcans.mov
thumbnail:
media_class: video
children_media_class:
navigateIds:
- {}
- media_content_type: app
media_content_id: media-source://media_source
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.bedroom_tv
data:
media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/bothcans.mov
media_content_type: video/quicktime
metadata:
title: bothcans.mov
thumbnail:
media_class: video
children_media_class:
navigateIds:
- {}
- media_content_type: app
media_content_id: media-source://media_source
mode: single
- id: '1650637963908'
alias: 'trash reminders ODD week '
description: 'play video on TVS and announcement on google mini''s to take up only
black trash can. '
trigger:
- platform: time
at: '18:29:00'
condition:
- condition: time
weekday:
- wed
before: 00:00:00
after: 00:00:00
- condition: template
value_template: '{{(as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom (''%U'') | int % 2) ==
1 }}'
action:
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.nestmini7847
data:
media_content_id: media-source://tts/cloud?message=Garbage+only++needs+to+go+up+this+week+see+alert+on+tv&language=en-US&gender=female
media_content_type: provider
metadata:
title: Garbage only needs to go up this week see alert on tv
thumbnail: https://brands.home-assistant.io/_/cloud/logo.png
media_class: app
children_media_class:
navigateIds:
- {}
- media_content_type: app
media_content_id: media-source://tts
- media_content_type: provider
media_content_id: media-source://tts/cloud?message=Garbage+only++needs+to+go+up+this+week+see+alert+on+tv&language=en-US&gender=female
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.livingroomtv
data:
media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/garbage.mov
media_content_type: video/quicktime
metadata:
title: garbage.mov
thumbnail:
media_class: video
children_media_class:
navigateIds:
- {}
- media_content_type: app
media_content_id: media-source://media_source
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.bedroom_tv
data:
media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/garbage.mov
media_content_type: video/quicktime
metadata:
title: garbage.mov
thumbnail:
media_class: video
children_media_class:
navigateIds:
- {}
- media_content_type: app
media_content_id: media-source://media_source
mode: single
Your first automation is named:
trash and recycle reminders calendar even days
If it’s meant to only run on even days, why is it using the Template Condition for determining odd weeks?
Or is the automation’s name not indicative of what it’s supposed to do?
well it looks like i copied my test YAML and not my working one. and did not change the == 1 to ==0
thanks for the catch
The problem with using week number is that if you have 53 weeks then you will get two odd weeks after each other.
| Because I'm 1 hours ahead of UTC (I disregard summertime because the int will flatten it out anyways), replace this with your timezone
{{ ((now().timestamp() | int-(86400*5)-(now().hour-1)*3600) / 604800) |int is odd}}
^ because 1970-01-01 was a Thursday
Calculates the number of weeks from UTC and thus should give you a correct every other week condition.
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