Run an automation every 2 hours with time_pattern

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Hello,

I’m trying to run an automation every two hours and I’m not 100% sure how time_pattern platform works.

Would work?

  trigger:
    - platform: time_pattern
      hours: /2
      minutes: 0
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Yep :+1: :+1:

Just need quotes around the /2

3

@petro Can this be achieved through the GUI too? As in “every 2 hours” and not “when the clock says 2”?

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Yep, just /2

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5

Lovely, tested and it works perfectly! Solves my pet peeve of having to do “59” on the seconds field for every minute…

6

If you wanted the automation to run every 10 minutes would you put /10 in the minutes box in gui and leave hours and seconds empty?

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Correct. Works perfectly.

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The automations editor removes the Quotes, every time I place them…???
So it is not possible to get a recuring every hour for me.

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You have to edit that in yaml mode.