Create automation with trigger of time and date

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I’m new to HA and I’m trying to figure out how to create a trigger which goes off at a specific time and date. The UI seems to permit a simple time entry but that will go off every day. Is it not possible to create a date and time trigger for an automation in the UI? Separately, I also want to be able to set a trigger which goes off every Wed. at a specific time.

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I use time as both the trigger and the condition. I set the trigger to the time I want and the condtion after to one minute before and set the day

- id: 'xxxxxx'
  alias: yyyyy
  description: zzzzz
  trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: '22:00:00'
  condition:
  - condition: time
    weekday:
    - wed
    after: '21:59:00'

You can do this easily from the UI or through Yaml

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In general it’s much easier to do everything in yaml than in the UI. As @AllHailJ mentioned, in yaml it’s easy to accomplish, you can just copy and paste his solution with appropriate entity_id/service and action.

If you are just starting with HA learning yaml will make your life much easier. It’s also as close to human readable as possible.

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As you are new to HA, here is a screenshot of how to do it in the UI.

Screenshot from 2021-07-28 09-45-50
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I’m happy to try and use YAML. Thanks to you both. The Visual editor is helpful in that I can see what it produces and then edit it or learn enough from it to do it all in YAML.