Good Days is a HACS custom integration for Jewish households. It shows what’s coming at a glance: the next Shabbat and holidays, candle lighting and havdalah, family dates by the Hebrew calendar, and it runs your Shabbat timers.
What’s in it:
Holidays calendar: Shabbat and Yom Tov as timed events (candle lighting to havdalah), all other holidays, special Shabbatot (Shekalim, Zachor, Parah, HaChodesh, HaGadol, Shuva…), Rosh Chodesh, Israel or diaspora.
Haftarah for every Shabbat, Ashkenazi or Sephardi / Edot HaMizrach, checked against Hebcal for every Shabbat 2024 to 2040.
Family dates by Hebrew date: birthdays, yahrzeits and anniversaries that repeat by the Hebrew calendar (Adar and 30th-day rules), with reminders a day ahead and phone notification buttons.
Shabbat timers: hot plate, urn, water heater, lights, AC… switched on and off relative to candle lighting / havdalah, with profiles, skip next Shabbat and a preview.
Lovelace card: next Shabbat with times and haftarah, upcoming holidays and family dates, merged with your other calendars, Shabbat-conflict warnings.
Sensors (next Shabbat, next candle lighting, next holiday), a calendar subscription link (ICS), Assist (“מה יש השבוע?”), a blueprint for lights before candle lighting.
Hebrew and English, right to left. Works offline (no external API).
Good Days v0.11.0 is out (update in HACS). What’s new:
Fast times
Minor fasts (Tzom Gedaliah, Asara B’Tevet, Ta’anit Esther, 17 Tammuz) now run from dawn to nightfall. Tisha B’Av runs from sunset the evening before to havdalah; when it’s postponed to Sunday, it starts after havdalah.
New options: when minor fasts begin (dawn at 16.1°, or 72 / 90 minutes before sunrise) and when they end (nightfall for fasts at 6.45°, or your havdalah time). Start times match Hebcal to the minute.
New entities: sensor.good_days_next_fast, binary_sensor.good_days_fasting (on during Yom Kippur too).
The card counts a fast in progress down to its end (“ends in 1:12”).
Shabbat timers on fast days
“Applies to” now includes Fast days. On a fast day, “candle lighting” means when the fast begins and “havdalah” when it ends.
New preset Breaking the fast: urn / kettle on 30 minutes before the fast ends, off an hour after.
Omer
sensor.good_days_omer: today’s count (1-49), moving on at nightfall, with the counting sentence in Hebrew or English. The card shows it during the Omer.
Optional nightly Omer reminder (off by default) with a “Counted” button. On Shabbat and Yom Tov nights it’s sent an hour before candle lighting; on the night after, it waits until after havdalah.
Assist
“What’s the Omer count?” / “כמה בעומר היום?”
“When does the fast end?” / “מתי נגמר הצום?”
Copy the new sentences from docs/assist to use these.
Heads-up: fasts on the holidays calendar (and in the calendar link) are now timed events, not all-day. If you have an automation that relied on them being all-day, check it.