Needing some help with a custom set triggers

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hey all,

i have an overly complicated alarm automation running to help me wake up but its only triggered by a single date and time entity and would like some help customising it

here is a very basic mock-up of what i would like a dashboard page to look like (at least a section on a dashboard)

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i would like to have the days layed out with a time dropdown near it for me to custom set the time for the set day, but then i want that custom set time to become a trigger on my automation, so when the set time on the dashboard is triggered it will run the automation, much like a standard date and time trigger but more custom on the dashboard so i don’t have to adjust it in the automation itself

I’m not at all good with any of the manual yaml/coding and always use ui so I’m not keen on templates but I’m not opposed to them if needed, any help is appreciated

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It will be less fiddly to set up a Schedule Helper:

or a Local Calendar:

and trigger off that.

To it the way you suggested (more complicated but arguably cleaner front end result), you’ll need seven time-only datetime helpers, an automation that triggers off any of them and conditions to match the day to the alarm.

If you call them Alarm 0 to Alarm 6 (so input_datetime.alarm_0 etc) you can add a pair of conditions to match the day, and to assume 00:xx means no alarm:

conditions:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ now().hour() > 0 }}"
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ (now().time()|string)[:5] == states('input_datetime.alarm_' ~ now().isoweekday())[:5] }}"

That second template compares the current time (as hh:mm) to the time in today’s helper.

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thanks so much for the help since I’m very stupid I’m going to try doing this in steps so i know what I’m doing haha😅, first off I’m creating 7 datetime helpers for each day of the week right? that part sounds pretty simple

– ok so a date and time helper set for each day is done now… im lost heh

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No, create just one schedule helper like the first documentation you were pointed to. Play with it.

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i see thanks

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You can create one from the gui, set times, then build an automation using hints from the documentation.

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ok i think i get it, make a schedule, set something up on a dashboard to set the day/time then have the on state for the schedule trigger the automation, just need to figure out how to get it set up to be adjustable on the dashboard

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got it, using the scheduler card i set it to press a button helper and that triggers the automation :slight_smile:

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