That seems to do the trick. Thanks very much. My original error was something about [before] not being an acceptable trigger. That is what made me move the time into a condition. I don’t understand how the very first example automation they show off has this listed as a trigger. I could never get it to work that way. Either way, its working now.
You can’t use before as a trigger, only after, so it will trigger just after the time you’ve set. If you try before, HA doesn’t know how many time ‘before’ has to trigger your automation.