Scheduler card/custom component

[tom_l]

Yeah, honestly, I’ve held off installing this until the dust settles and the config solidifies a bit (nothing to do with it being a mad time of year work-wise, no not at all). But… it’s already becoming far more than I needed and I’m beginning to look at the other two options again, just for simplicity.

[Foxxy (Reps)]

Yes, that was discussed some weeks ago (around posts 595+)- and I IMO still need a SCHEDULER component not another AUTOMATION / SCRIPT engine in HA
Best, JR

[neliss]

Don’t worry, I’m well aware of how things are escalating.
There are not really any extra features left to be added. This is it
The next updates are focused on cutting down code, simplifying GUI, making the user experience more pleasant.

Still puzzling a bit about what to do with the ‘discovered schedules’ vs multiple cards issue.
It’s kind of a unique situation, with the card auto-generating entities that you may later ‘get lost in HA’ due to changes in your card config.
That, and the fact that the schedules refer to other entities + services, which might get removed as well.
Any good idea is welcome

[tom_l]

Disable them and have something like the “show disabled entities” filter from the configuration / entities menu perhaps?

[dyfcom (Tetra)]

@tom_l

Keep the conditions in a script or automation. Enable the script or automation with the scheduler.

That is what I need. When the window is open, the heater turn off, when the window is closed, it’s going back to the temperature. And this is working with the scheduler like charm.

Only need 2 Automations (Window Open/Close) instead of 9 …for one room

[neliss]

Release v1.9.0

I have listened to you guys
I collected some feature requests and made a big update for them.
Let me summarize the changes.

Localization
The localization of the card has been completely redone.
All texts in the card now support translations. Well… except for the UI editor.
A lot of translations have been re-used from HA, to reduce the mainteannce (and size!) of the localization files.
The remainder has been restructurized for making things more maintainable.

A big request to those who have helped translating:
Could you please take a look at the new localization files, and help me with the migration?

Furthermore, the card should now detect automatically:

• The time format in your country (24 hours vs 12 hours format). The am_pm setting is dropped.
• The first day of the week. The first_weekday setting is dropped.
• The names of the weekdays.

Hope it works fluently for all, let me know if there are troubles!

Group entities

@Isablend

Is it possible to define groups of entities you want to schedule the same activity for? For example closing a set of blinds or putting on a set of lights?

@tmchow

Is it possible to use this with a group of switches ? I’ve got 3 smart switches controlling exterior lights that I want on the same schedule. I’ve defined a group for them, but they don’t show up as options in the scheduler card.

It is now finally possible to create schedules for group entities.
And by group, I mean group (not the ones that categorize the entities).
It was a bit of a puzzle, because you can place virtually any mix of entities in a group, and the group will allow you to call almost every service for them.

The card will check which entities are contained by the group, see if they have any actions in common, and make those available for you.

It wyou try anything fancy (like combining climate + cover + light) entities in a group, there’s a good change that the card doesn’t know what you want to do with them.
Ofcourse you can customize your own action, but don’t expect that set_temperature will make your lamps become more orange (use at your own risk).

As with every new addition: suggestions are very welcome!

Display options

@Canaletto

The friendly name is also what can tell us what a schedule contains. Why not make it appear on the card?

@ASNNetworks

The schedule card now shows the icon of the action instead of the entity.
…
I liked having the icon of the entity

I heard you In HA everything should be possible. That’s what makes HA so awesome.
Since it will be very hard to combine everyone’s preferences, I decided to make things configurable.
Check out the new display options configuration.
I hope it will give everyone the possibility to change things to their liking. Let me know if you miss anything.

Improved customization
With special thanks to @Motti_Bazar for his patience in helping me improving this.

First of all, the hiding of actions:

@Motti_Bazar

Without using the “standard_configuration: false”, I get all possible actions listed but I only want part of them (would like to remove “set preset” and “turn off”) displayed for selection.

There is now the exclude_actions property, which may help you to hide unwanted actions from your the card. It was already introduced in the previous release, but it was still buggy. I think it works better now
You can simply provide a list of names of actions (as they are displayed, so e.g.: ‘heat’) to make them disappear.

Then the more specific customizations:

@Motti_Bazar

When sliding the dot, the steps are done in 0.5 degree. I tried to change this using “customize” to be 1 degree steps with no success.

There were definitely some quirks in the card here.
In v1.8.0 I mixed quite some stuff up internally. And now I mixed stuff up again. But hopefully for the better

The idea is that the standard config and your customization will be merged, so you only have to provide the changes you want to do on top of the standard configuration.
So in case you want to change the timestep for the set_temperature action, you can do this:

customize:
  climate:
    actions:
      - service: set_temperature
        variable:
          field: temperature
          step: 1

While the other properties (name, icon, min / max / unit etc.) will be kept as they are.

Other changes
In v1.80, suddenly everyone was getting big yellow boxes with warnings of schedules that were not included in their config.

I got a nice tip from @tom_l:

@tom_l

@neliss

Still puzzling a bit about what to do with the ‘discovered schedules’ vs multiple cards issue.
It’s kind of a unique situation, with the card auto-generating entities that you may later ‘get lost in HA’ due to changes in your card config.
That, and the fact that the schedules refer to other entities + services, which might get removed as well.
Any good idea is welcome

Disable them and have something like the “show disabled entities” filter from the configuration / entities menu perhaps?

And that’s exactly what I did. Looks very discrete, think its a keeper

@clau-bucur

Is the “remaining time” supposed to be dynamic or only should update on page refresh? Because currently it doesn’t count down. It only changes if I refresh the page.

Done!

Well that wraps it up pretty good.
Maybe I missed some more changes, but I guess you will find out yourself!

PS: Good chance that there will be (as always) some new issues in the card (also the 0.117 HA update messed some things up). Let me know, I will try to fix them in the next couple of days.

[Canaletto (Lionel)]

Whaw !!! Merci pour tout ça

[Merangle]

Great !!!
Can you give an example how to implement display_options ?

Thanks for the job!
Very helpful. It will really simplify the automations I have.

[pepe59]

I have a problem. After updating, I will add a scheduler tab and it will not appear. I refresh the page and it is present. I switch the view and come back and the screen is blank again. The default theme and custom is the same. HA 0.117.1 browser chrome

[neliss]

@Merangle

Great !!!
Can you give an example how to implement display_options ?

Sure!
This is the standard setting:

display_options:
  primary_info: "{entity}: {action}"
  secondary_info: 
    - relative-time
    - additional-tasks	
  icon: action

So you could use it as a starting point, make changes as you wish.
I added some documentation about it.

[neliss]

@pepe59

I have a problem. After updating, I will add a scheduler tab and it will not appear. I refresh the page and it is present. I switch the view and come back and the screen is blank again.

Well that’s weird! The card should work snappy…
I also don’t have the issue you’re having.
If you could share a specific pattern you do to get this issue (or maybe even make a screen video), i would like to check it out.

[pepe59]

I will try to restart Rpi. Then I’ll let you know.

[jalsing (Jason)]

@neliss

@pepe59

I have a problem. After updating, I will add a scheduler tab and it will not appear. I refresh the page and it is present. I switch the view and come back and the screen is blank again.

Well that’s weird! The card should work snappy…
I also don’t have the issue you’re having.
If you could share a specific pattern you do to get this issue (or maybe even make a screen video), i would like to check it out.

I’m having the same issue. I have two separate scheduler cards, one on separate lovelace “tabs”. If I refresh the page while on tab eg “Climate” my climate scheduler card shows up. But if I select the “Automations” tab, my other scheduler card is not there. I can refresh, and it will show up. But then, clicking back to “Climate” and the scheduler card there is gone.

I had just updated your card and restarted HA (did not check this functionality however) then updated HA to .117.1 and noticed this behaviour.

[pepe59]

I tried restarting and it didn’t help. I also have 2 cards, 1 PC monitor and a second tablet on the wall. I am convinced that this was done by updating to v 0.117.1

[pepe59]

I went back to HA version 0.16.4 and it’s the same.

[Canaletto (Lionel)]

@pepe59

I have a problem. After updating, I will add a scheduler tab and it will not appear. I refresh the page and it is present. I switch the view and come back and the screen is blank again. The default theme and custom is the same. HA 0.117.1 browser chrome

If we don’t refreash the page and let it do so, the memory consumption of the page continues to increase (10 G) until it crashes.

I reproduced here and stopped before the crash…

[jalsing (Jason)]

@Canaletto

@pepe59

I have a problem. After updating, I will add a scheduler tab and it will not appear. I refresh the page and it is present. I switch the view and come back and the screen is blank again. The default theme and custom is the same. HA 0.117.1 browser chrome

If we don’t refreash the page and let it do so, the memory consumption of the page continues to increase (10 G) until it crashes.

Same here. Though I thought maybe not at first as I didn’t see any increase but after a short while I look back and it’s at 1.5G+

[Merangle]

Same issue. After updating, unable to create new scheduler, just the button ‘edit’ appears at the bottom of a newly created ‘scheduler card’.
However the new UI (with time presetting, selection of groups, switches, lights, climates, …) is available.

[pepe59]

I returned the scheduler to version 1.8.4 and everything is fine.

[KTibow (Kendell R)]

Any comments @neliss?