Run automation at beginning of month?

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Hi all,
I want to make an automation to reset my energy meters and send me an e-mail report at 00:00:00 on day 0 of a month. I got the notification and service call parts working. I just can’t figure out how to make it go at the beginning (or end) of the month. I can run it daily using the time trigger, but couldn’t get it much farther than that.

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

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trigger:
  platform: time
  at: '00:00:01'
condition:
  condition: template
  value_template: "{{ now().day == 1 }}"
action:
  .....
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Thanks. Is now() more efficient than adding the time_date sensor and polling that? I saw that with some searching but looks like a lot of templates use now().

I set up a test to run tonight. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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I don’t think there is any effect on efficiency. It’s just what works best for the circumstance.

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Worked last night. I’ll reconfigure for first of the month and we’ll see then.

Thanks for the help!

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hey!

will this work with month as well?

thx

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It certainly will.

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Thank you

So i will try this:


  condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: 'value_template: "{{ now().month == 10 }}"'
  action:

By the way: how I can make this a trigger? Trigger if month change to „10“
But with the condition should result in same

Thx

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You can’t use now() in a trigger as it is only evaluated once. So in a condition it is evaluated once for every time the automation triggers, but in a trigger it would not ever be evaluated again.

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the new replacement would probably do:

{{as_local(states.sensor.time.last_updated).month == 10}}

?

in this case maybe even better

{{as_local(states.sensor.date.last_updated).month == 10}}

since that only triggers once a day

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