Rewrite time condition in value_template

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HI,

rewriting all conditions in the form of value_template, to easily check them in the dev-templates, what would be the best way to transform this:

    - condition: time
      before: '21:00:00'
      after: '08:30:00'

into this form:

condition: template
value_template: >
  {{ '08:30:00'< now().timestamp() < '21:00:00' }}

or

{{'08:30'< states('sensor.time') < '21:00'}}

2

You’ll have to convert them to seconds for this to work. String operations on numbers does not work the way you think it does.

{{ (8*60*60+30*60) < state_attr('sensor.time','timestamp') < 21*60*60 }}
3

thank you, I’ll do that, seems a bit hacky though. Isn’t there a better way? I merely tried the setup with sensor.time, because it passed the template checker and the shortest time display without further timestamps etc.

does seem to work though;-)

your template renders empty…
because this:
{{state_attr(‘sensor.time’,‘timestamp’)}} is None ?

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4

Hmm, i thought that had a timestamp attribute. Use as_timestamp(states(‘sensor.time’))

As for your little example, let me show you why string representations of numbers do not work:

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5

not yet…

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btw using 09:33 makes it work correctly ? no matter which silly times I enter, it always is correct and evaluates the current time correctly too, unless of course I go over the 60 for the minutes…

this would be possible I think:

{{ (8*60*60+30*60) < ((now().hour)*60*60 + (now().minute)*60) < 21*60*60 }}

which would be the same as:

{{ (8*60 + 30) < ((now().hour)*60 + (now().minute)) < 21*60 }} or even

{{ 8*60 + 30 < now().hour*60 + now().minute < 21*60 }}

6

are you actually using sensor.time? Is sensor.time from the time component or is it something you made?

7

Also, if you are looking for the simplest approach, you could keep your units in hours:

{{ ( 8 + 30/60 ) < ( now().hour + now().minute/60 ) < ( 21 + 33/60 ) }}

or in decimal format:

{{ 8.5 < ( now().hour + now().minute/60 ) < 21.55 }}
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well, yes, sure. I use:

sensor:
  - platform: time_date
    display_options:
      - 'time'
      - 'date'
      - 'beat'

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9

cool, getting better. As a matter of fact, I’d need the times to be between 07 am and 21 pm, so

{{ 7 < ( now().hour + now().minute/60 ) < 21 }}
nice! thanks