How can I call the service "workday.check_date"?

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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I would like to find out if tomorrow is a workday or not from my AppDaemon app, so I installed the workday binary sensor to HA and I can now do:

is_today_workday = True if self.get_state("binary_sensor.workday_sensor") == "on" else False

I also want to know if tomorrow is a workday and on the workday binary sensor page there is a section about a service that seems to be able to check an arbitrary date.

The problem is that I can’t figure out how to call this service, if I call self.list_services() it says nothing about any workday service…

Do I have to create the service myself somehow?

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I’ve still not solved how to call this service… :thinking:

But for now, I have created some additional entities, binary_sensor.workday_tomorrow_sensor and binary_sensor.workday_day_after_tomorrow_sensor with “Days offset” set to 1 and 2 respectively. :upside_down_face:

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Unfortunately at this time, AD doesn’t know how to handle response data from HA based service calls but the feature should be added relatively soon.

4

Thanks for letting me know!
Great to hear that this is something that will be available in the future.

5

I’m looking for exactly the same, I would like to adjust the solar panels inverter depending if tomorrow is workday.

Did you find a solution ?

Thanks

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I’m still using the solution hinted at above, installing the workday binary sensor calling it binary_sensor.workday_tomorrow_sensor and setting days_offset to 1.

State attributes (YAML) 
workdays:
  - mon
  - tue
  - wed
  - thu
  - fri
excludes:
  - sat
  - sun
  - holiday
days_offset: 1
friendly_name: Workday Tomorrow Sensor

I then use it in my AppDaemon App class as:

    def is_tomorrow_workday(self):
        v = self.get_state("binary_sensor.workday_tomorrow_sensor")
        self.log(f"workday_tomorrow_sensor: {v}")
        return True if v == "on" else False

Hope this helps.