see also https://community.home-assistant.io/t/hide-group-attributes-if-used-as-nested-groups/3592
Thank you, that’s a big help. I’ve made some progress this evening but could not pass the value from the input_slider so I’ll try replicating your scripts over the weekend and see how I get on. I had this from a previous post but it does not work.
water_timer_off:
alias: "Turn off water after (input select) minutes"
sequence:
- delay:
minutes: '{{ input_slider.timer_options_slider }}'
- service: homeassistant.turn_off
data:
entity_id: group.water_valves
delay: '00:{{ states.input_slider.timer_options_slider.state | int }}:00'
I see you have 2 times a delay in there … not sure if that works
another tip is try to evaluate your template in the developer tools under Templates. That will show you how the template renders the output as a common issue here with time is that you get one digit back and than your delay looks like 00:5:00 and that will not work.
Search in this forum on the topic alarm clock and you will find lot of entries how other have solved some of the issues with this
Thanks, will do. Learning every day.
Hi Ronvl,
Suspect that Im getting the below errors due to the now function change.
Can you help identify which of the now statements need changing? Below is an example of a few instances I have found - unsure which examples need changing.
{% set runDate = ((as_timestamp(now) + (86400 * Days)) | timestamp_local) %}
snip
{% if states.sensor.starttime_valve_1.state < now.time().strftime("%H:%M") %}
snip
value_template: "{% if states.switch.valve_1.state == 'on'%}Opened {{((as_timestamp(now) - as_timestamp(states.switch.valve_1.last_changed)) / 60) | round(0) }} minutes ago{% else %}Closed{% endif %}"
snip
{% set weekday = weekdayList[(now.weekday()+ Days)] %}
Currently getting a couple errors in the log file on 0.30.2.
16-10-14 23:55:44 homeassistant.components.sensor.template: UndefinedError: ‘function object’ has no attribute ‘weekday’
16-10-14 23:55:44 homeassistant.components.sensor.template: UndefinedError: ‘None’ has no attribute ‘last_changed’
I’m not near HASS at the moment but it looks like you have two times as_timestamp(now) that need to be changed to as_timestamp(now()) I believe. You can test it via the developer tools under Templates, just past it in there there … way easier than starting the HASS every time 
Can check it later this weekend if it not works
Thanks, its working.
Please be aware that the Status that shows how long the Valve is open is not working anymore since 29.5…
See:
If you follow the links to the PR you will find a work around that I haven’t tested yet… as it is authum here in Germany and getting below zero at night the sprinkler is currently not installed 
I noticed that if i restart hass the parameters i set are not saved and rolls back to default.
For example the select sensor returns back to its default which is None.
Also the time and duration is reset to default.
Is this normal or did i do something wrong?
Yep normal behavior of HASS at the moment.
See Ability for input_boolean, input_select and input_slider to retain values over a restart
Instead of automation with slide bars for,hour and minute and days, I moved my logic to be control with a google calendar with the latest release.
My sensor Based on the calendar searches for Bed 1, which is my sprinkler in one of my raised bed, it uses the state = on to turn it off, but I still set the off with a timer set with a slider and a Mqtt command
Hi guys,
I’ve used a line from the code above:
last_run_valve_1:
friendly_name: ‘Last Run’
entity_id: switch.valve_1
value_template: “{{states.switch.valve_1.last_changed.strftime(’%a’)}}, {{states.switch.valve_1.last_changed.strftime(’%d-%m-%Y’)}}”
to create a sensor for when I last ran the sprinkler automation. The issue I’m having is the time here isn’t my “local” timezone it’s the UTC timezone that home assistant runs everything with in the background. How can i translate to my local time with the strftime?
Hey Guys,
did someone got an answer for this error?
17-01-25 15:17:45 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.sensor.template] UndefinedError: 'function object' has no attribute 'weekday'
I get this error every time now.weekday() is called.
Greets Julian
@thejacko12354 that code is a bit old and now.weekday() is replaced by now().weekday(). have a search on the release notes as there were a few changes since
@ronvl yeah i found that error.
Now I’m stuck with the next one…
If I set a day, I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py", line 239, in _step
result = coro.send(None)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant-0.36.0.dev0-py3.5.egg/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 212, in async_update_ha_state
yield from self.async_update()
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/coroutines.py", line 206, in coro
res = func(*args, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant-0.36.0.dev0-py3.5.egg/homeassistant/components/sensor/template.py", line 114, in async_update
self._state = self._template.async_render()
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant-0.36.0.dev0-py3.5.egg/homeassistant/helpers/template.py", line 99, in async_render
return self._compiled.render(kwargs).strip()
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 989, in render
return self.environment.handle_exception(exc_info, True)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 754, in handle_exception
reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/jinja2/_compat.py", line 37, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "<template>", line 66, in top-level template code
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/jinja2/sandbox.py", line 355, in call
return __context.call(__obj, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant-0.36.0.dev0-py3.5.egg/homeassistant/util/dt.py", line 79, in as_timestamp
raise ValueError("not a valid date/time.")
ValueError: not a valid date/time.
Have a look as this is my latest code that is still working
next_run_valve_1:
friendly_name: 'Next Run'
entity_id:
- input_slider.valve_1_hour
- input_slider.valve_1_minutes
- input_select.valve_1_schedule
- switch.valve_1
value_template: >
{# runDay set to 9 = Not Set #}
{% set runDay = 9 |int %}
{# Set todays day #}
{% set currentDay = now().weekday() |int %}
{%- macro monthu() -%}
{%- if currentDay == 0 -%}
{{0}}
{%- elif currentDay <= 3 -%}
{{3}}
{%- else -%}
{{0}}
{%- endif -%}
{%- endmacro -%}
{%- macro monwedfrisun() -%}
{%- if currentDay == 0 -%}
{{0}}
{%- elif currentDay <= 2 -%}
{{2}}
{%- elif currentDay <= 4 -%}
{{4}}
{%- elif currentDay <= 6 -%}
{{6}}
{%- endif -%}
{%- endmacro -%}
{# set configured runDay from input_select #}
{% if states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Monday" %}
{% set runDay = 0 |int %}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Tuesday" %}
{% set runDay = 1 |int %}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Wednesday" %}
{% set runDay = 2 |int %}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Thursday" %}
{% set runDay = 3 |int %}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Friday" %}
{% set runDay = 4 |int %}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Saturday" %}
{% set runDay = 5 |int %}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Sunday" %}
{% set runDay = 6 |int %}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Mon/Thu" %}
{% set runDay = monthu() |int -%}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Mon/Wed/Fri/Sun" %}
{% set runDay = monwedfrisun() |int %}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Every Day" %}
{% set runDay = currentDay |int %}
{% endif %}
{# determine the next runday #}
{% if runDay == 9 %}
{# schedule not active #}
{% set runDate = "Not set" %}
{% else %}
{# schedule is active so determine next run #}
{# first check if runDay = today #}
{% if currentDay == runDay %}
{# are we passed the scheduled time? #}
{% if states.sensor.starttime_valve_1.state < now().time().strftime("%H:%M") %}
{# than we need to fake tomorrow #}
{% set currentDay = (currentDay + 1) |int %}
{# and calculate new runDay in case we have a list of multiple run days in in a week #}
{% if states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Mon/Thu" %}
{% set runDay = monthu() |int -%}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Mon/Wed/Fri/Sun" %}
{% set runDay = monwedfrisun() |int %}
{% elif states.input_select.valve_1_schedule.state == "Every Day" %}
{% set runDay = currentDay |int %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{# Now we can determine next runDate base on now().weekday() and not currentDay as that can be set to fake tomorrow #}
{% if currentDay <= runDay %}
{% set Days = runDay - now().weekday() |int %}
{% else %}
{% set Days = runDay + 7 - now().weekday() |int %}
{% endif %}
{% set runDate = ((as_timestamp(now()) + (86400 * Days)) | timestamp_local) %}
{# we also want to show the weekday of the next date #}
{% set weekdayList = ["Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"] %}
{% if now().weekday()+ Days < 7 %}
{% set weekday = weekdayList[(now().weekday()+ Days)] %}
{% else %}
{% set weekday = weekdayList[(now().weekday()+ Days)- 7] %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{# all done #}
{# set states.sensor.next_run_date_valve_1.state = runDate #}
{% if runDay == 9 %}
{# schedule not active #}
{{runDate}}
{% else %}
{{weekday}}, {{runDate[8:10]}}-{{runDate[5:7]}}-{{runDate[0:4]}} at {{states.sensor.starttime_valve_1.state}}
{% endif %}
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Hi @ronvl, I copied some of your code a while back and was never able to get it to work properly. I read that home assistant does all of it’s time calculations at timezone +0 GMT and then converts it to your local time after when displaying on the UI. The problem I’m having is getting the following to not use the internal time and use my local time when displaying on the sensor. I’m in timezone +8 so it always displays 8 hours behind. If you can help that would be much appreciated!
sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
sprinklers_last_run:
friendly_name: 'Last Run'
entity_id: script.run_all_sprinklers
value_template: "{{states.script.run_all_sprinklers.last_changed.strftime('%a')}}, {{states.script.run_all_sprinklers.last_changed.strftime('%d-%m')}} at {{states.script.run_all_sprinklers.last_changed.strftime('%H:%M:%S')}}"I see you added the time as well as I don’t have that in my display. But try to use the filter timestamp_local see https://home-assistant.io/topics/templating/
so {{states.script.run_all_sprinklers.last_changed.strftime(’%H:%M:%S’) | timestamp_local}}
Try first in the developer tools if that makes a difference
also did you set the correct time zone in your hass config?
Pick yours from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
time_zone: Europe/Berlin
Can you run the following in developer tools and share the output:
- ‘{{ (now().strftime("%s") | int | timestamp_custom("%H:%M %z%Z")) }}’
- ‘{{ (now().strftime("%s") | int | timestamp_local()) }}’
- ‘{{ (now().strftime("%Z") ) }}’
- {{ now().strftime("%s") | int | timestamp_utc }}
- {{now().strftime("%H:%M")}}
Thanks for the reply @ronvl !
The timestamp_local doesn’t appear to make any difference:
sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
sprinklers_last_run:
friendly_name: 'Last Run'
entity_id: script.run_all_sprinklers
value_template: "{{states.script.run_all_sprinklers.last_changed.time().strftime('%a') | timestamp_local}}, {{states.script.run_all_sprinklers.last_changed.time().strftime('%d-%m') | timestamp_local}} at {{states.script.run_all_sprinklers.last_changed.time().strftime('%H:%M:%S') | timestamp_local}}"
I definitely have the right timezone set in the configuration.yaml:
time_zone: Australia/Perth
I can also see the timezone changes working for other sensors when tailing the log file:
INFO:homeassistant.core:Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: new_state=<state sensor.since_last_boot=5 days, 2:31:55.913602; icon=mdi:clock, friendly_name=Since Last Boot @ 2017-01-31T17:50:17.936740+08:00>, entity_id=sensor.since_last_boot, old_state=<state sensor.since_last_boot=5 days, 2:31:24.863087; icon=mdi:clock, friendly_name=Since Last Boot @ 2017-01-31T17:49:46.874592+08:00>>
I don’t know how to run those in developer tools, what Domain and Service do i use? I’m assuming that list is supposed to go under the Service Data (JSON, optional)?