New HA Local Calendars and Conditional Cards

[hottl]

Until recently I had two “conditional cards” that only appeared on my dashboard when a recently deprecated HACS Integration called Garbage Collection triggered. The yaml for them is below.

type: conditional
conditions:
  - entity: sensor.wheelie_bins
    state: today
card:
  type: markdown
  content: '# **Put Black Bin out**'

type: conditional
conditions:
  - entity: sensor.blue_bin
    state: today
card:
  type: markdown
  content: '# **Put Recycling Bin out**'

I have just set up a Local Calendar (called Bins), and have set alternating recurring events for Blue and Black bins. But I can’t work out how to create a new Conditional Card to replace my old ones.

Can someone help me with how to do this? Many thanks!

[Didgeridrew]

@hottl

I have just set up a Local Calendar (called Bins), and have set alternating recurring events for Blue and Black bins. But I can’t work out how to create a new Conditional Card to replace my old ones.

We don’t know how your calendars are set up so it’s hard to give advise that would be applicable to your situation…

[hottl]

I have 1 calendar entity called

calendar.bins

. If I go to Calendar in the left hand bar and then click on an event within the bins calendar I get this …

The “black” bin, on alternating weeks is similar. What other info can I share?

TIA

[Didgeridrew]

I would set up a trigger-based template sensor:

template:
  - trigger:
      - platform: calendar
        event: start
        entity_id: calendar.bins
      - platform: calendar
        event: end
        entity_id: calendar.bins
    sensor:
      - name: Bins Conditional
        state: "{{ 'off' if trigger.event == 'end' else trigger.calendar_event.summary }}"

Then your cards are based off the state of the sensor.

type: conditional
conditions:
  - entity: sensor.bins_conditional
    state: Black
card:
  type: markdown
  content: '# **Put Black Bin out**'

type: conditional
conditions:
  - entity: sensor.bins_conditional
    state: Blue
card:
  type: markdown
  content: '# **Put Recycling Bin out**'

The above assumes that blue and black bins never go out on the same day. If that’s not the case left us know.

[hottl]

Thank you so much @Didgeridrew - that all works perfectly!

[hottl]

Hmmm, seems I spoke too soon.

I have this Conditional Card in my Dashboard (which I want to only show / appear on the correct day of the fortnightly cycle) …

type: conditional
conditions:
  - entity: sensor.bins_conditional
    state: Blue
card:
  type: markdown
  content: '**Put Blue Bin out**'

But it did not trigger today (as I would have hoped). Where might I have gone wrong? I have shown below the Calendar entry.

TIA

And this is my Template entry configuration.yaml …

template:
  - trigger:
    - platform: calendar
      event: start
      entity_id: calendar.bins
    - platform: calendar
      event: end
      entity_id: calendar.bins
  - sensor:
    - name: Bins Conditional
      state: "{{ 'off' if trigger.event == 'end' else trigger.calendar_event.summary }}"