Making a Weekdays automation via the GUI

jdawson · July 23, 2024, 11:16am

When I go into automation via the user interface (not via YAMEL editing). I can find where I say I want a trigger to happen every day at 7AM. But I don’t see how I say Monday - Friday or pick what days of the week while I am setting the time of day. No doubt this is easy and I am just missing it.

Please help.

Joe

Nick4 · July 23, 2024, 11:37am

Hi Joe, AFAIK there is no such option by default in HA.
Ideas:

use the local calendar or to-do list for schedules and triggers in your automations
use GitHub - nielsfaber/scheduler-component: Custom component for HA that enables the creation of scheduler entities

nwootton · July 23, 2024, 11:48am

Use the Workday Integration to setup Mon-Fri.

Use that as a state condition or trigger

jdawson · July 23, 2024, 1:15pm

Thank… You…

Feels like this is a big gap in core functionality

Arh · July 23, 2024, 1:20pm

Or as ever there are plenty of ways to do. You can specify weekdays or whatever day you want as a condition.

Tinkerer · July 23, 2024, 1:22pm

There’s no option, YAML or other, for a weekday trigger.

There is a weekday option for the time condition, which can be done in the GUI.

kahilzinger · July 23, 2024, 7:39pm

Use the condition for the time and leave the times blank and just add the days of the week you want it. I use it all the time.