Send Message to Bot based on time

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Hi.

I am pretty new with HA. I have managed to intergrate Telegram Bot.

I want to do a very simple thing (well in my mind)

I want to check a status of a device, which is fairly easy but i then want to Send a message to my Telegram bot at like say 8AM

I have looked at the time intergration and other things but i was wondering if there was just a very simple way of achieving it.

An example of what i am trying to do.

Get Home Assistant to check a Zigbee device is online (lame but i am just messing around at the moment), then send a message to my bot at 8AM.

LIke i said i have the telegram bot working for my other automations, its just the timing section for my message to be sent i am struggling with.

thanks

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Welcome to the loony bin! :slight_smile:

At what time do you want the state checked? If it doesn’t matter, just check it at 08:00 and then send the message. This is easy.

If you want the state check and the message at different times, that will be a little more work. :slight_smile: You’d need to explain more, especially when your check should be performed. :slight_smile:

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thanks for replying

it can be the same time, in fact if that is easier, thats fine.

I was more struggling on how to write the code for it, tried using the GUI automation but cannot seem to find what i am looking with regards.

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You have to setup a notifier like this:

notify:
  - platform: telegram
    name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    chat_id: CHAT_ID_1

After that you setup an automation like this:

automation:
  - id: 'My telegram notification'
    trigger:
      - platform: time
        at: '08:00:00'
    condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: sensor.myzigbeedevice
        state: 'on'
    action:
      - service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
        data:
          title: "*Send a message*"
          message: "Super cool message here"

As trigger and condition you can use one of these: Automation Trigger - Home Assistant

This does the following: At 08:00 it starts running, checks, if the device is on, if not it ends, if it is on, it will send the message.

EDIT: Somehow some of my text got lost, I added it back again.

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thats is perfect mate, thank you for taking time to show me that.

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