Days selector for automation run

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@Brian_Sparks

There may be 50 different ways to get the result you are looking for but finding even one of them can be a challenge some times.

Possibly, but in this particular case the template I mentioned can be found three posts above yours.

FWIW, it’s based on a similar request (May 2022):

Run automation every two days

This automation turns on the switch at 5:00 and off at 5:15 every other day (i.e. every two days) and is able to handle a restart correctly. alias: Example 1 trigger: - platform: time at: - '05:00:00' - '05:15:00' - platform: homeassistant event: start condition: "{{ (now() - as_datetime('19700101T00Z')).days % 2 == 0 }}" action: - service: "switch.turn_{{ iif(now().hour == 5 and 0 <= now().minute < 15, 'on', 'off') }}" target: entity_id: switch.your_device

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@Brian_Sparks

… there’s a HA Add-On for VSCode. I wonder if that would help here?

I don’t believe it offers any support for devising templates. Home Assistant’s Template Editor serves as a sandbox for testing Jinja2 templates and it simply tells you the template’s computed result (or if it contains a Jinja2 syntax error).