Get weekday in my local language?

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Hi!

I am making a text-to-speech greeting script that is talking my local language. I want it to tell me the weekday and the only way I have found to do this is using now().strftime(%A). But the problem with this is that it gives me the weekday in English, and not in my local language. I know i can change this in python with locale.setlocale(). But where in home assistant would i set it? Home assistant is running in my local language.

Or is there another way i can get weekdays in my own language?

Thanks!

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Hi @Dobrethat, i’m running a script outside of the venv with crontab at 00:01 that publishes the local weekday name to a mqtt topic.
in HA then, i use the mqtt sensor

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Hi all

I recall this topic to understand if there is any other way to get localized name of weekdays.
My needs is to use it in a message to send to a media player like this in an automation.yaml
action:

  • data_template:
    message: “text with localized day of the week”
    entity_id: media_player.mymedia

Any idea or solution already used?

Thanks

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Hello @woody4165,
I am using this:

- service: tts.google_say
  data_template:
    entity_id:
    - media_player.camera_da_letto
    message: >
      {%- set date = as_timestamp(now()) -%}
      {% set giorno = ["Domenica", "Lunedì", "Martedì", "Mercoledì", "Giovedì", "Venerdì", "Sabato"] %}
      {% set mese = ["Gennaio", "Febbraio", "Marzo", "Aprile", "Maggio", "Giugno", "Luglio", "Agosto", "Settembre", "Ottobre", "Novembre", "Dicembre"] %}
      {% set m_ok = date | timestamp_custom("%m") | int %}
      {% set g_ok = date | timestamp_custom("%w") | int %}
      {% set giorno_della_settimana = giorno[g_ok] %} 
      {% set giorno_del_mese = date | timestamp_custom("%d") %}
      {% set mese = mese[m_ok - 1] %}
      Buongiorno! Oggi è {{ giorno_della_settimana }} {{ giorno_del_mese }} {{ mese }}

Of course, you will have to translate days and months! :wink:

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Grazie.
Italian is the language I was looking for.

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FYI the now object has these attributres and you don’t need to convert them to a timestamp.

- service: tts.google_say
  data_template:
    entity_id:
    - media_player.camera_da_letto
    message: >
      {% set giorno = ["Domenica", "Lunedì", "Martedì", "Mercoledì", "Giovedì", "Venerdì", "Sabato"] %}
      {% set mese = ["Gennaio", "Febbraio", "Marzo", "Aprile", "Maggio", "Giugno", "Luglio", "Agosto", "Settembre", "Ottobre", "Novembre", "Dicembre"] %}
      {% set giorno_della_settimana = giorno[now().weekday()] %}
      {% set mese = mese[now().month - 1] %}
      Buongiorno! Oggi è {{ giorno_della_settimana }} {{ now().day }} {{ mese }}
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@petro!

Thanks, mate! :wink:

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@boggiano You probably already noticed, but posting this for anyone else who might find this topic. The following will actually give the wrong day:

{% set giorno_della_settimana = giorno[now().weekday()] %}

You should use now().isoweekday() instead of now().weekday().

This is because the array giorno has 7 items, but retrieving e.g. the first item requires you to use index 0 instead of 1.

Today for e.g. is a Tuesday, so (my Italian isn’t that great) I’m guessing that should be “Martedi”, but now().weekday() returns 1 on a Tuesday which corresponds to “Lunedi” when used like giorno[now().weekday()]. If you use giorno[now().isoweekday()] you do get the correct day because now().isoweekday() returns 2 on a Tuesday which results in “Martedi”.

Or you could keep using now().weekday() and simply change your giorno array to start with Monday:

["Lunedì", "Martedì", "Mercoledì", "Giovedì", "Venerdì", "Sabato", "Domenica"]
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Hi,
i’m writing this for helping other people.
i’ve set google calendar native support and used this code to read the next event in calendar and then use it in a entity.

in configuration.yalm:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      template_calendar_veritas:
        value_template: >
          {%- set date = as_timestamp(strptime(states.calendar.CALNAME.attributes.start_time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")) -%}
          {% set giorno = ["Domenica", "Lunedì", "Martedì", "Mercoledì", "Giovedì", "Venerdì", "Sabato"] %}
          {% set mese = ["Gennaio", "Febbraio", "Marzo", "Aprile", "Maggio", "Giugno", "Luglio", "Agosto", "Settembre", "Ottobre", "Novembre", "Dicembre"] %}
          {% set m_ok = date | timestamp_custom("%m") | int %}
          {% set g_ok = date | timestamp_custom("%w") | int %}
          {% set giorno_della_settimana = giorno[g_ok] %}
          {% set giorno_del_mese = date | timestamp_custom("%d") %}
          {% set mese = mese[m_ok - 1] %}
          {{ giorno_della_settimana }} {{ giorno_del_mese }} {{ mese }}: {{ states.calendar.CALNAME.attributes.message }}
        friendly_name: CALNAME
        unit_of_measurement: ''

change CALNAME with the identifier of the calendar you want.

in lovelace:

entity: sensor.template_calendar_CALNAME
icon: 'mdi:calendar'
name: Next Event
type: entity

part of the code found here: