Next holiday sensor

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I have some programmable holiday lights using an outdoor neopixel and a esp8266 so I needed a way to detect the next holiday to change the color scheme automatically. So this morning I just pounded out this custom component sensor that just tells you the next upcoming holiday.

It’s based on the same python holiday component that the built-in workday sensor is made with so maybe I should try to add this capability to that sensor or something.

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Will update the readme to detail the config options soon.

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Hey there. I liked your job, but cannot understand what I should do to install this component on my HA. Can u help me?

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go to the github link above and copy the “next_holiday” folder and all of its contents into your custom_components folder in your config directory.

restart HA.

add the example sensor code (modified as necessary for your locale) to your “sensor:” section of configuration.yaml.

restart HA.

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mesmerizing! tks for the answer, infinity rsr

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This is a custom component and you can put it in a folder called custom_components that would be in the same dir as your main configuration.yaml file. So for example, my configuration.yaml is in /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant and so this component’s files are in /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/next_holiday

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I can probably try to make this HACS compatible to make it easier if desired.

EDIT: OOPS I see this has been answered above. Sorry about the overlap. JINX

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thanks, no problem man… I like aviation and the redundancy it preaches on planes, that is, the more redundant when it comes to information I don’t know, the better :smile: )

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10 out 10 bro

I created a new template sensor call is_holiday_today

- platform: template
  sensors:
    is_holiday_today:
      friendly_name: Holiday Today
      value_template: >
        {%- if  state_attr("states.sensor.next_holiday", "today_is_holiday") == true %}
        on
        {%- else %}
        off
        {%- endif %}

when doing the next code change what
about get the code to create that sensor

now I can put that in automations as a trigger

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Isn’t that built in?

Also are people familiar with the workday integration?

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Great job! Looking forward to installing it with HACS!

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Workday is binary and only tells you if a given day is a holiday or not.

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I just added the HACS metadata so I think it should be able to be installed but I have not tested it with HACS yet. Let me know if it works.

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So is @myle’s

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Thanks for doing that! I was able to install it through HACS and it’s working great!

I usually only install custom components through HACS so it’s easier to maintain in case there are breaking changes with Home Assistant in the future :smiley:

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Ah, right, didn’t realize you were answering him.
Indeed that sensor is just reproducing the builtin workday, basically.

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Sorry you are right, I didn’t make that plain.

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Makes sense, thanks for the feedback. Glad it works.

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So I made something like this using templates, one issue I ran into is that I would jump to the next holiday on the day of a current holiday, making automations useless. Is that what you’re doing here (haven’t looked at the code)

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I anticipated that. The sensor state will remain on the holiday until the day after the holiday. So it’s more of a ‘next or current’ holiday sensor.

Relevant code here.

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Does the sensor only show Holidays up to this year? Is it possible to show whatever python holiday has for next year as well?

Edit:

 
 ​        ​if​ ​next_holiday_date​ ​is​ ​None​: 
 ​            ​# lookahead into the next year 
 ​            ​holiday_data​.​update​(​_load_holidays​(​today​.​year​ ​+​ ​1​, ​self​.​_config​)) 
 ​            ​next_holiday_date​ ​=​ ​_find_next_holiday​(​today​, ​holiday_data​)

Would it be possible for us to pass in a config, eg if next holiday has only 3 in the list, start pulling from next year?

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Sure that’s totally doable. As you found we already do lookahead into the next year if there are no future holidays in the current year. But making that configurable is a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.