How to set Automation Condition from Weekday from Input Select with Template

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Hi!

I have an automation, which I would like to run on a specific day.

The automation runs at Midnight (00:00), and uses a condition to check if it’s the correct day…

I have an input select, input_select.day_picker, with the days of the week in its list.

I’d like my automation to check if TODAY is the day picked in my input select, but I can’t quite work out how to do it.

I know I will probably need a Template based condition, and somehow use now().time().strftime("%A") to find out if today matches the input select… but not sure exactly what code to use.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!!

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Hi,
Did you ever figure this one out?

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Nope, didn’t get any further. :pensive:

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Hey guys, I just came across this and realised that what you are looking for is very similar to how I have my irrigation system setup. I use input_booleans to select if a day is a watering day or not, then templates to check if today is a watering day. There is a lot more to the code but I have pasted the bits that I think will help with what you need.

sensor:
  - platform: template    # determine if today is selected as a watering day for program 1
    sensors:
      retic_program1_watering_day:
        entity_id: input_boolean.retic_program1_monday, input_boolean.retic_program1_tuesday, input_boolean.retic_program1_wednesday, input_boolean.retic_program1_thursday, input_boolean.retic_program1_friday, input_boolean.retic_program1_saturday, input_boolean.retic_program1_sunday
        value_template:  >
          {% set sensor_names = [ 'monday', 'tuesday', 'wednesday','thursday','friday','saturday','sunday'] %}
          {% set today_name = sensor_names[now().weekday()] %}
          {% set entity_id = 'input_boolean.retic_program1_'+today_name %}
          {{ is_state(entity_id, 'on') }}

      retic_program2_watering_day:
        entity_id: input_boolean.retic_program2_monday, input_boolean.retic_program2_tuesday, input_boolean.retic_program2_wednesday, input_boolean.retic_program2_thursday, input_boolean.retic_program2_friday, input_boolean.retic_program2_saturday, input_boolean.retic_program2_sunday
        value_template:  >
          {% set sensor_names = [ 'monday', 'tuesday', 'wednesday','thursday','friday','saturday','sunday'] %}
          {% set today_name = sensor_names[now().weekday()] %}
          {% set entity_id = 'input_boolean.retic_program2_'+today_name %}
          {{ is_state(entity_id, 'on') }}

input_boolean:
  retic_program1_monday:   # watering day selections for program 1
    name: Monday

  retic_program1_tuesday:
    name: Tuesday

  retic_program1_wednesday:
    name: Wednesday

  retic_program1_thursday:
    name: Thursday
    
  retic_program1_friday:
    name: Friday

  retic_program1_saturday:
    name: Saturday
    
  retic_program1_sunday:
    name: Sunday

  retic_program2_monday:   # watering day selections for program 2
    name: Monday

  retic_program2_tuesday:
    name: Tuesday

  retic_program2_wednesday:
    name: Wednesday

  retic_program2_thursday:
    name: Thursday
    
  retic_program2_friday:
    name: Friday

  retic_program2_saturday:
    name: Saturday
    
  retic_program2_sunday:
    name: Sunday
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Hi @sparkydave and thank you for the code! How do you ensure the entity will change the state after it turn to another day. I noticed that it keeps unchanged. Any help on this please?

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Not sure if I fully understand what you are asking. Which entity are you referring to? the sensors? All that my code does is give you input_selects for each day of the week, then sensors to see if ‘today’ is selected to ‘on’ or not. When the day changes (ie: midnight) the sensor will automatically change to on/off depending on what the input_select status is for the new day of the week

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I think it’s the known limitation of now(). being used to TRIGGER automations.

Personally i setup a sensor that gives me what day of the week it is:

    date_dayoftheweek:
      value_template: >
        {% set ct = states('sensor.date') %}
        {% set ct = as_timestamp(strptime(ct,'%Y-%m-%d')) %}
        {{ ct | timestamp_custom("%A") }}

FWIW I also have one for weekdays/weekends:

    date_weekend:
      value_template: >
        {% if is_state('sensor.date_dayoftheweek', 'Saturday') %} weekend
        {% elif is_state('sensor.date_dayoftheweek', 'Sunday') %} weekend
        {% else %} weekday
        {% endif %}

I then use these as conditions in automations to allow or not allow it to proceed. Guessing you might be able to use some of the same for your needs?

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It won’t update me after midnight. I need to run automation which runs homeassistant.update_entity on the sensor. Just tested it and it works :slight_smile: