How to make timer helper create and maintain easy?

[Vetti52]

Well, Chrismas is gone for a while already . But just now I decided to get rid of my set of timer clocks, which I had installed for my external Chrismas illuminations. I thought, using HA I could do it much simpler, next Chrismas…
This season:
Besides an old analog timer, my digital Tasmota timer was set up to turn the lights on 30 minutes before sun sets until midnight, and then again turn on at 6am until 30 minutes after sun rise.
Now, when studying HA documentation, I came to a solution, which is “not so easy” to configure, at least less as I expected:

Using the UI helpers I created these four helpers:
Helper1: switch on the tasmota plug 30 minutes before sun set.
Helper2: switch off the tasmota plug 30 minutes after sun rise.
Helper3: switch on the tasmota plug at 6am.
Helper4: switch off the tasmota plug at 00:15 (because for 00:00:00 I got an error)

This seems to work. At least an unused testing tasmota plug is switched as desired. But I expect, that next Chrismas, there will be at least four different plugs to be controlled. Not all of them (indoor, outdoor) will follow the same intervalls. May be, there is a less complicated solution instead of a long list of helpers.

Hopefully, there are some readers here with more skills than I have, that can advise me. I prefer to use the UI, but could also read and write YAML.

Thanks
Peter

[tom_l]

You could use this:

Scheduler card/custom component

Scheduler integration for HA Introduction In my house I have quite some devices that I want to control based on the time and day. For a while I have been looking for an easy way to set up and manage the automations that control them. HA has lots of functionality, but some things (such as automations), are not as simple to use as I would like. So, I decided to create my own scheduler integration. With a mobile-friendly Lovelace card for managing it. What is the scheduler integra…

[Vetti52]

Thanks, Tom!
First, it looks like my solution is the one working ok with plain HA UI means.
Second, there is not an easy way to deal with my problem.
Third, you provide a solution, kind of an add on to HA. Great!!

I will give it a try, although, I would touch it only twice a year, begin and end of Chrismas illumination season. Therefore, it may be a little bit overpowered. But, never know, what will be in the future.