Create a sensor for holidays/workdays

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Hi, I’m trying to create a sensor indicating if a given date is considered workday or holiday.
I would like to do this for two differen contries, Italy and US.
I created two binary sensors for both countries as below
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Giorni lavorativi Italia

  • platform: workday
    country: IT
    name: “Giorni lavorativi Italia”
    workdays: [mon, tue, wed, thu, fri]
    excludes: [sat, sun, holiday]
    add_holidays:
    • 2021-12-24
    • 2021-12-31
      remove_holidays:
    • 2021-01-06
    • 2021-06-02
    • 2021-11-01

Giorni lavorativi USA

  • platform: workday
    country: US
    name: “Giorni lavorativi USA”
    workdays: [mon, tue, wed, thu, fri]
    excludes: [sat, sun, holiday]
    add_holidays:
    • 2021-01-18
    • 2021-02-15
    • 2021-04-02
    • 2021-05-31
    • 2021-07-05
    • 2021-09-06
    • 2021-11-25
    • 2021-12-24
      remove_holidays:
      …
      I tried many ways to connect this sensor to input.date entity but non success. Anyone who has the same need or already accomplished this task?
      Thank you for your help
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Please see the sticky post on how to correctly format code (point 11).

That aside, what do you mean by connect this sensor to input.date entity but non success?

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Hi, basically what i want is an “input field” where to set a given date and a sensor that tells me if that date is a holiday or not (would be nice for two countries at the same time but I do not think is feasible).
I do have a sensor for for workadays but I DID NOT FIND how to relate this sensor to the input field.
As shown in the pictures I want to input a date in the input date field and get from the sensor if that date is a workday or not.

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# Giorni lavorativi USA
  - platform: workday
    country: US
    name: "giorni lavorativi usa"
    workdays: [mon, tue, wed, thu, fri]
    excludes: [sat, sun, holiday]
    add_holidays:
      - 2021-01-18
      - 2021-02-15
      - 2021-04-02
      - 2021-05-31
      - 2021-07-05
      - 2021-09-06
      - 2021-11-25
      - 2021-12-24
    remove_holidays:

Here is the sensor in formatted text

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I use the hacs garbage collection for holidays. Here is my sanitized configuration.yaml code

#
# Use garbage collection to set events and holidays
#
garbage_collection:
  sensors:
  - name: Cleaning day
    frequency: even-weeks
    collection_days: thu
  - name: wife birthday
    frequency: annual
    date: '01/01'
  - name: my birthday
    frequency: annual
    date: '01/02'
  - name: daughter birthday
    frequency: annual
    date: '01/03'
  - name: Anniversary
    frequency: annual
    date: '01/04'
  - name: son birthday
    frequency: annual
    date: '01/05'
  - name: New Years Day
    frequency: annual
    date: '01/01'
  - name: Independence Day
    frequency: annual
    date: '07/04'
  - name: Halloween
    frequency: annual
    date: '10/31'
  - name: Christmas
    frequency: annual
    date: '12/25'
  - name: Watering Days #summer months 
    frequency: "weekly"
    collection_days: 
    - tue 
    - thu
    - sun
    first_month: "apr"
    last_month: "oct"
#

It creates all the entities and you can operate against them. I also use this for irrigation.

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Hi, thank you for the hint; I’ll check if suitable for me. Actually what I’m trying to do is a calendar for the stock markets where opening and closing days vary year over year (easter, thanksgiving, etc.). Using the workday platform would automatically update most of them leaving just a few to be entered manually.