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Using the below to turn on the Christmas Light Season sensor. It will turn on the day after Thanksgiving. Every year I need to enter the date for Thanksgiving as shown below.

Do you have any suggestions to make it do this automatically?

binary_sensor:
  # Christmas Light Season
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      christmas_light_season:
        friendly_name: Christmas Light Season
        value_template: >
          {% set today = states('sensor.date').split('-') %}
          {% set month = today[1]|int %}
          {% set day = today[2]|int %}
          {{ month == 11 and day > 25 or month == 12 }}
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I use this, it keeps the lights on between the day after thanks giving and jan 15th

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      christmas_season:
        unique_id: christmas_season
        friendly_name: Christmas Season
        value_template: >
          {%- set month, week, day = 11, 4, 3 %}
          {%- set today = now().date() %}
          {%- set temp = today.replace(month=month, day=1) %}
          {%- set adjust = (day - temp.weekday()) % 7 %}
          {%- set temp = temp + timedelta(days=adjust) %}
          {%- set thanksgiving = temp + timedelta(weeks = week - 1) %}
          {%- set jan15th = temp.replace(month=1, day=15) %}
          {{ today <= jan15th or today > thanksgiving }}

This doesn’t turn them on jan 1st +

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      christmas_season:
        unique_id: christmas_season
        friendly_name: Christmas Season
        value_template: >
          {%- set month, week, day = 11, 4, 3 %}
          {%- set today = now().date() %}
          {%- set temp = today.replace(month=month, day=1) %}
          {%- set adjust = (day - temp.weekday()) % 7 %}
          {%- set temp = temp + timedelta(days=adjust) %}
          {%- set thanksgiving = temp + timedelta(weeks = week - 1) %}
          {%- set jan1 = temp.replace(month=1, day=1) %}
          {{ today < jan1 or today > thanksgiving }}
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Awesome! Thanks!!!

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Question! How would i modify your sensor to turn them off the first saturday AFTER new years day?

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  - platform: template
    sensors:
      christmas_season:
        unique_id: christmas_season
        friendly_name: Christmas Season
        value_template: >
          {%- set month, week, day = 11, 4, 3 %}
          {%- set today = now().date() %}
          {%- set temp = today.replace(month=month, day=1) %}
          {%- set adjust = (day - temp.weekday()) % 7 %}
          {%- set temp = temp + timedelta(days=adjust) %}
          {%- set thanksgiving = temp + timedelta(weeks = week - 1) %}
          {%- set month, week, day = 1, 1, 5 %}
          {%- set temp = today.replace(month=month, day=1) %}
          {%- set adjust = (day - temp.weekday()) % 7 %}
          {%- set temp = temp + timedelta(days=adjust) %}
          {%- set firstsat = temp + timedelta(weeks = week - 1) %}
          {{ today < firstsat or today > thanksgiving }}
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Amazing, thank you! Now to learn what all this means so i can use it for other ideas!

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Sorry to necro the thread, how would I adjust this for additional seasons? I tried to comprehend, but its so elegant, I couldn’t reverse engineer it.

Specifically, the last Saturday of September through (but also including) Halloween night. (Halloween Season)?