Get notified medicine every 4 hours and play sound on Google Home

Configuration
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Hello Guys,

I need some configuration on my Home assistant.

What i need is get notified a medicine or eat time of kids to be alerted on home assistant as badge or something like that and also play a sound on Google Home. It should be fine when the alert happend that i should click on OK on the home assistant and then a new alert will be created or the next scheduled alert will be start.

Are there maybe a script or integration about that?

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I suggest you investigate the following resources:

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when i make the automation trigger:

automation:
  trigger:
    platform: time_pattern
    # Matches every hour at 5 minutes past whole
    minutes: 5
  1. How can i make switch to enable and disable that trigger?
  2. When trigger happen how can i see that on Lovelace such as green button and i want to click on that button and then the status should be done -> up to the next schedule.
  3. That button should be also register when you have clicked on it and then you can see that also on Lovelace when the medicine was gives.

I thing the idea is simple and can everyone use but my scripting knowledge is not so best to implement this integration…

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To help others help you, you will need to explain what your requirements in greater detail. For example, based on the information you have provided:

  1. Get notified medicine every 4 hours and play sound on Google Home
  2. Click on OK and then a new alert will be created or the next scheduled alert will be start

Questions:

  • So is it every 4 hours or the next scheduled alert? Or both?
  • If it’s every 4 hours, does that include throughout the entire day and night?
  • If there is a schedule how do you plan to modify it? Only within the automation or do wish to expose its controls in the Lovelace UI as well?
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This is exactly what i want.

Target:
-> Get notified medicine every 4 or 8 hours.
-> Should be fine to set that on Lovelace.
-> On Lovelace get the info about the next scheduled time.
-> When it is clicked on the button on Lovelace, the scheduled time should be automatically reset on that set time over 4 / 8 hours and the time begin again.
-> Alternatively an alarm sound on google home to get the medicine at the scheduled time.

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You can use an input_select with two options: 4 and 8 (hours). This can be used to specify the desired time period.

You can use an input_boolean to activate or deactivate the countdown.

You can create an automation that uses a State Trigger. It is triggered whenever the state of the input_boolean is turned on and stays on for the number of hours specified by the input_select (use State Trigger’s for option). When triggered it turns off the input_boolean and plays an announcement to the media_player representing your Google Home.

To re-activate the countdown, you turn the input_boolean back on.

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Can you please send me an example of this 3 scripts so i can begin and customize it?

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It’s not 3 scripts. It’s two entities and an automation.

If you are unfamiliar with the terms I’ve used, I suggest you review the links I provided in my previous posts to familiarize yourself with Home Assistant’s terminology. Otherwise, it will become challenging to explain what I’ve proposed.

In the configuration.yaml file, create an input_select and an input_boolean:

input_select:
  hours:
    options:
      - '4'
      - '8'

input_boolean:
  reminder:
    name: Reminder

In whatever file you use to store your automations (configurations.yaml or automations.yaml), create this automation:

- alias: 'Reminder'
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.reminder
    to: 'on'
    for:
      hours: "{{states('input_select.hours') | int}}"
  action:
    - service: input_boolean.turn_off
      entity_id: input_boolean.reminder
    - service: persistent_notification.create
      data_template:
        message: 'This is your {{ trigger.for }} hour reminder to do something.'
        title: 'This is a reminder.'

To simplify this example, this automation reports the reminder using persistent_notification as opposed to using a media_player (i.e. your Google Home device). It just makes it easier to create and test the example and can later be replaced with a notification to your Google Home.

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