Send Notifications after the "Do not send window" or send notifications later

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Hello,

i wonder if this is possible at all, as it maybe need some sort of save or store in a string procedure.

I have made myself a “smart” dishwasher, nothing else then a dishwasher with a power outlet with measurement of the power usage.
So far so good.

It’s easy to create a notification system, during the day, if someone is home and dishwasher is done -> send notification.

But what if it is after 10PM ? I mean regarding the Automation, the notification should not be send anymore.
Which is what i want.
But, i would like to receive the notification anyway the next possible “Notification Window”, which is in my case, the next day, 6.30AM.

Will a delay work ?
Would it affect the system to have a delay waiting for around 8.29 Hours (worst case)?
Ho would it be realized ? as it would need to be a dynamic delay.

I also think about using the counter component ( https://www.home-assistant.io/components/counter/ )
Will this be the best option or do you have any other ideas ?

So i can create something like a simple counter which is going from 0 to 1 and if it is 1, the automation will check at 6.30AM if it is 1, if yes, send message and set the counter back to 0?
How would this be best realized?

just put an counter.increment and counter.reset in the action area of the trigger?

Does someone have an example for the use of the counter component?

Regards
Crey

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You can add a wait template in your actions, just before notifications, and check the time “now” to make sure it’s in your notification window?

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There is most likely a better way of doing this, but you could use this wait template:

- wait_template: "{{((as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(as_timestamp(now()) | timestamp_custom("%Y-%m-%d 00:00:00")))/60/60) >=6.5 and ((as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(as_timestamp(now()) | timestamp_custom("%Y-%m-%d 00:00:00")))/60/60) <22}}"

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timestamp is working fine.

Thanks for the tip.

Regards

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