Does the following condition ensure that whatever automation it is attached to will only run if binary_sensor.allow_automation is true and the time is between 5am and midnight?
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: 'binary_sensor.allow_automation'
state: 'on'
- condition: time
after: '05:00:00'
before: '00:00:00'
before: '23:59:59'
00:00:00 is tomorrow.
What happens if you want to have a time period that is between 5am and 4am? That is, run 23 hours a day except 4am-5am.
Well, technically it should bridge the midnight but you’ll find many threads on here where it doesn’t, so to be sure you would use an or condition, after 5 or before 4
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: 'binary_sensor.allow_automation'
state: 'on'
- condition: or
conditions:
- platform: time
after: '05:00:00'
- platform: time
before: '04:00:00'
Actually, if you want a condition that is between 05:00:00 and midnight, then just use after (i.e., remove the before option.) “After 5” means “between 5 and midnight.”
Are you sure about that? The code definitely has support for times spanning midnight (i.e., before is before after, or to put it another way, after is after before.) In theory the following should work:
condition: time
after: '05:00:00'
before: '04:00:00'
If it doesn’t then that’s a bug.