Manage effect from hour on WLED via automation

Configuration
1

I would like to set different effect depending on the time of day e.g. afternoon a different effect to night effect

three possibilities come to mind:

with condition:

 - condition: time
   after: '14:00:00'

or trigger:

trigger:
      - platform: time
        after: '14:00:00'
	data_template:
        topic: wled/aaee12/api
        payload: '[FX=00] Solid'

but I think the best solution is in payload something similar:

 payload: '{% if  after: '14:00:00' * [FX=00] Solid *

I don’t know if it is possible to do it directly in the payload,

please have you some suggestions?

2

There is no ‘after’ for a time trigger. If there was, this would trigger every single second after 14:00:00 lol.

The simplest would be something like the following:

trigger:
  # Create a trigger for each time point you want
  - platform: time
    at: "14:00:00"
  - platform: time
    at: "20:00:00"
  - platform: time
    at: "08:00:00"
action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: wled/aaee12/api
      payload: >
        {% if trigger.now.hour == 8 %}
          [FX=00] Solid
        {% elif trigger.now.hour == 14 %}
          [FX=01] Solid
        {% else %}
          [FX=02] Default
        {% endif %}
3

thank you very much for your help, I wanted to add a motion sensor but it seems to ignore it

trigger:		
- platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.sensor_A1
    to: 'on'
		 
		 
		  payload: >
        {% if trigger.now.hour == 8 %}
		 { is_state('binary_sensor.sensor_A1', 'on') }}
          [FX=00] Solid
        {% elif trigger.now.hour == 14 %}
		{ is_state('binary_sensor.sensor_A1', 'on') }}
          [FX=01] Solid
        {% else %}
          [FX=02] Default
        {% endif %}
4

I am wondering why you don’t use the service to select the effect https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wled/#service-wledeffect

5

A state trigger doesn’t have “trigger.now.hour”. That is special to a time trigger.

You’d just have to use {% if now().hour == 14 %}

I mean, you could do that in the original one too.

6

thank you so much for your useful ideas