Intent to set google clock alarm from input.datetime not working

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Hi people,

I’m pretty new to HA, so still figuring out a lot. For one of my first projects, I’m trying to let HA set an alarm on my android phone, either based on my calendar event tomorrow, of a manual alarm set in my dashboard.

Both the calendar and manual alarm have individual scripts/automations resulting in input_datetime.morgen_wekker_tijd being set, both date and time, after which a common-pathway script takes care of setting setting the alarm and doing some lights stuff.

I’m having trouble going from input_datetime.morgen_wekker_tijd to the alarm being set. I’ve tried using chatGPT for help, but am not getting anywhere.

this script works:

sequence:
  - variables:
      hour1: "{{now().hour|int}}"
      min1: "{{now().minute+1|int}}"
    alias: Set time
  - data:
      message: command_activity
      data:
        intent_package_name: com.google.android.deskclock
        intent_action: android.intent.action.SET_ALARM
        intent_extras: >-
          android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:{{hour1|int}},android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:{{min1|int}},android.intent.extra.alarm.MESSAGE:Home
          Assistant Alarm,android.intent.extra.alarm.SKIP_UI:true
    action: notify.mobile_app_mobiel_niek
mode: single

So I know in basis that the command works.

How do I go from the input_datetime.morgen_wekker_tijd to the variables being set (with a 10min offset)? It seems that whatever I try, the variables contain a wrong data type or something, which then results in the intent not containing the proper information.

an example of what I tried (after which the intent is send like above):
sequence:

    variables:
      base_time: >
        {{ strptime(states('datetime.morgen_wekker_tijd'), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') }}
      alarm_time: >
        {{ base_time + timedelta(minutes=10) }}
      hour1: "{{ alarm_time.hour }}"
      min1: "{{ alarm_time.minute }}"

Thanks for any help you can give me, sorry if it’s a really obvious answer!

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You are missing the input_ in the entity ID.

But the key piece of information you are missing is that script variables won’t return datetime objects, they are just turned back into a datetime string. Do all your datetime math in the same variable and output it as a simpler data type like a list.

variables:
  alarm_time: >
    {% set base = strptime(states('input_datetime.morgen_wekker_tijd'), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') %}
    {% set offset_dt = base + timedelta(minutes=10) %}
    {{ [offset_dt.hour, offset_dt.minute] }}
  hour1: "{{ alarm_time[0] }}"
  min1: "{{ alarm_time[1] }}"
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Thanks!

Got it to work a bit better: it’s setting an alarm, but only on the hour. So 7:15 turns to 7:00 alarm.

Had to adjust it a bit, because just parsing your suggestion in variables gave a “Message malformed: expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data[‘sequence’][0][‘variables’] home assistant” error while saving, so have this now:

alias: Set next alarm 2
mode: single
sequence:
  - alias: Haal alarmtijd op
    variables:
      alarm_time: >
        {% set base = strptime(states('input_datetime.morgen_wekker_tijd'), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') %}
        {% set offset_dt = base + timedelta(minutes=10) %}
        {{ [offset_dt.hour, offset_dt.minute] }}
      hour1: "{{ alarm_time[0] }}"
      min1: "{{ alarm_time[1] }}"
  - data:
      message: command_activity
      data:
        intent_package_name: com.google.android.deskclock
        intent_action: android.intent.action.SET_ALARM
        intent_extras: >-
          android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:{{ hour1 }},
          android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:{{ min1 }},
          android.intent.extra.alarm.MESSAGE:Home Assistant Alarm,
          android.intent.extra.alarm.SKIP_UI:true
    action: notify.mobile_app_mobiel_niek

What am I missing?

Edit:
Even if I change min1 to
min1: "{{now().minute+1|int}}"
It still sets the alarm to 7:00, even though it worked fine when hour1 comes from now() too

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There seems to be something going on with using a multi-line format. I’ve tried all the different multi-line indicators with no working results.

But, if you format it as a single line, it works. Both of the follow formats are working for me:

- data:
    message: command_activity
    data:
      intent_package_name: com.google.android.deskclock
      intent_action: android.intent.action.SET_ALARM
      intent_extras: "android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:{{ hour1 }},android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:{{ min1 }},android.intent.extra.alarm.MESSAGE:Home Assistant Alarm,android.intent.extra.alarm.SKIP_UI:true"
  action: notify.mobile_app_mobiel_niek

or

- data:
    message: command_activity
    data:
      intent_package_name: com.google.android.deskclock
      intent_action: android.intent.action.SET_ALARM
      intent_extras: >-
        android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:{{ hour1 }},android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:{{ min1 }},android.intent.extra.alarm.MESSAGE:Home Assistant Alarm,android.intent.extra.alarm.SKIP_UI:true
  action: notify.mobile_app_mobiel_niek
5

awesome, thank you so much, this got it working!

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