I have a google nest hub in my bedroom that I use as an alarm clock, and I have a helper in Home assistant called “Holidays” that stops several automations when we are not home. That helper is also synced with a Google Home virtual switch so both ecosistems know when I’m away.
Now, it would be great if I could disable my alarms when I went on holiday and enable them when I come back. But apparently, that’s impossible.
- First, if there is a combination of words in the english or spanish language that will make a repetitive alarm be created correctly, I couldn’t find it. “Create a repetitive alarm from monday to friday at seven fifteen AM” seems to be too confusing, and so are the many other tries I made. And as you can’t mess with the devices alarms on their automations, the google side of things is just impossible.
- Home Assistant is even more painful. It has the same problems and also the Google Assistant SDK just doesn’t work with Nest hubs.
Has anyone tried to do something similar?