Schedule helper overnight?

Configuration
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Does anyone know how to use a scheduler helper overnight? I want the scheduler to run from 22.00h - 08.15h (don’t want to use the frontend because I also want to be able to change the time to other than half an hour times).

If I do a test in the user interface to pull the block over the night, the block seems to stop at 00:00

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If I use in YAML:

    tuesday:
      - from: "00:00:00"
        to: "08:15:00"
      - from: "22:00:00"
        to: "00:00:00"
    wednesday:
      - from: "00:00:00"
        to: "08:15:00"
      - from: "22:00:00"
        to: "00:00:00"

I get this error:

Invalid config for [schedule]: Invalid time range, from 22:00:00 is after 00:00:00 for dictionary value @ data['schedule']['nachtverlaging']['tuesday']. Got [OrderedDict([('from', '00:00:00'), ('to', '08:00:00')]), OrderedDict([('from', '22:00:00'), ('to', '00:00:00')])]. (See ?, line ?).

Apparently the 00:00:00 can’t be the end of the day.

I sort of works as I change it this way:

    tuesday:
      - from: "00:00:00"
        to: "08:15:00"
      - from: "22:00:00"
        to: "23:59:59"
    wednesday:
      - from: "00:00:00"
        to: "08:15:00"
      - from: "22:00:00"
        to: "23:59:59"

But that results in two triggers (one off and a second later one on again). Is it possible to make one block from 08.15h - 08.00h next day?

2

Based on the Schedule integration’s documentation, I don’t see anything suggesting it can support a schedule that exceeds a single day.

I suggest you explore the possibility of using the Local Calendar integration (it supports scheduling multi-day events, repeating events, etc).

3

Thanks, I will have a look at the integration as well.

Nonetheless I solved it:

    tuesday:
      - from: "00:00:00"
        to: "08:15:00"
      - from: "22:00:00"
        to: "24:00:00"
    wednesday:
      - from: "00:00:00"
        to: "08:15:00"
      - from: "22:00:00"
        to: "24:00:00"

So the frontend is somewhat misleading in how it presents the block. It should be 24:00:00h in the end of the day instead of 00:00:00h :slight_smile:

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That’s interesting because, to my knowledge, 24:00 isn’t supported anywhere else in Home Assistant.

Examples:

  • If you attempt to set an Input Datetime to that value it will produce an error.

  • If you try to create a Local Calendar event ending at 24:00 it is automatically changed to 00:00.

You may have stumbled upon a bug.

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