How to record elapsed time between 'goodnight' and 'good morning' triggers, then TTS how long I've been in bed

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Hi folks. I have 2 RF buttons beside my bed which trigger existing automations:

  • ‘Goodnight’ turns off all lights in the flat, and plays white noise on my bedside Google Home display.
  • ‘Good morning’ switches off white noise, announces the current weather, with temperatures (from sensors inside and out) using TTS, and plays my favourite radio station on all speakers.

What I want to do is to add an announcement of the time I’ve spent in bed i.e. between pressing button 1 and button 2: “You’ve been in bed for six hours and 34 minutes” or whatever.

I’ve looked at history stats, timer, and other stuff but am stuck. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Thanks, but that’s too tough for me. I’m not clear how to create the entities/sensors involved.

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Both are HA automations. One of the reasons for the buttons is to avoid having to trigger GH routines by voice.

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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction - I’ve got this working, though not perfectly yet.

  • I created two datetime helpers: input_datetime.abed_start and input_datetime.abed_end
  • I added both to Lovelace so I could see what’s what
  • I then created two scripts to populate them with the current time - here’s the start one:

alias: Abed start
sequence:

  • service: input_datetime.set_datetime
    target:
    entity_id: input_datetime.abed_start
    data:
    datetime: ‘{{ now().timestamp() | timestamp_local }}’
    mode: single
    icon: mdi:sleep

  • Having run both scripts, I had 2 timestamp numbers to play with (good - no fiddly datetime values to play with), and, clearly, the difference between the numbers was a number of seconds (I didn’t know this before)

  • So, ‘end’ minus ‘start’ would give me the number of seconds in bed. To create this as an entity, I added the following to configuration.yaml:

    • platform: template
      sensors:
      abed_time_seconds:
      friendly_name: ‘Abed time in seconds’
      value_template: ‘{{ as_timestamp(states.input_datetime.abed_end.state) - as_timestamp(states.input_datetime.abed_start.state) }}’

  • I restarted of course, then add that entity to Lovelace too - again, just to see the values, which look like this:
    image

  • Next, I added the ‘start’ script above to my ‘goodnight’ automation, and my ‘end’ script to my ‘good morning’ automation. Both run from buttons beside my bed. As you can see, I was in bed for 8 hours last night.

  • Finally, I added an extra section to my morning TTS announcement:

sequence:

  • service: tts.clear_cache
    data: {}
  • service: tts.google_translate_say
    data:
    entity_id: media_player.all_speakers_2
    message: >-
    Good Morning David!
    It’s
    {{states(‘sensor.openweathermap_forecast_condition’)}}.
    On the balcony, it’s
    {{states(‘sensor.tz3000_1x1vtalf_ts0201_465eabfe_temperature’)}}
    and in the lounge
    {{states(‘sensor.tz2000_a476raq2_ts0201_temperature’)}}.
    There is a
    {{states(‘sensor.openweathermap_forecast_precipitation_probability’)}}
    percent chance of rain.
    You were in bed for
    {{ (as_timestamp(states.input_datetime.abed_end.state) -
    as_timestamp(states.input_datetime.abed_start.state))/3600 }} hours
    mode: single
    alias: TTS Weather Report
  • All that’s left to do is to split the announcement up into hours and minutes, but I’ll worry about that another time
  • Very happy with this!
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