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FAQ - Special Calendar Event Lighting

Through out the year we all like to have lights for special event like Halloween, Christmas, New Year, Sporting Days, Easter, Parties, etc. This is all possible now using this blueprint Sensor Light along side with my new blueprint Calendar Notifications & Actions. This was one of the main reasons I created “Calendar Notifications & Actions” with all the upgrade of by-passes in the sensor light blueprint.

Now you can create calendar events to automaticity turn ON and OFF by-passes so you can switch your lighting automations to accommodate for your special events lighting needs.

How To Set Up - Special Calendar Event Lighting

Because we are getting close to Halloween of the time of this post we will use this event as an example on how you can achieve this. But you can replace Halloween lights with any other special event you may have.

1. First we need to create a by-passes and a template binary sensor trigger. You can call them anything you like. See our FAQ: Click Here on how to create a helper by-pass.

   • Halloween By-pass - This will be used in my normal everyday lighting automations and will be linked to the binary template sensor so they will toggle together.

     

   • Halloween Trigger (template binary sensor trigger) - This will be used as the trigger in my Halloween light automations.

     Create a template - binary sensor helper. Settings / Devices & services / helpers tab at top / create helper.

     

     

     In the state you would input your by-pass entity in.

     {{ is_state('input_boolean.your_by_pass_here', 'on') }}
     

     

   • Now the “Halloween By-pass” will toggle the “Halloween Trigger” ON and OFF at the same time.

     

     

2. Create all the automations using this Sensor Light blueprint and adding your “Halloween Trigger” in. You can have more than one automation for your “Halloween Lights” as they all will be activated and deactivated all at the same time. Set the time delay to “0”.

   

3. Then in all your normal automations that you would like to disable when Halloween lights are ON enter in your “Halloween By-pass” as shown above in step 1.

4. Now we need to create the calendar event. Enter in all your Halloween calendar events for when you would like the Halloween lights ON. Example of one day below but you could have 2 weeks of Halloween lights so you would enter in an event for each day you would like the Halloween lights ON. Notice in the description we have used a key word “@halloweenlights”. More information on this is in the Calendar Notifications & Actions post.

   

5. Now using the Calendar Notifications & Actions blueprint we need to create an automation. Enter in the trigger in for the calendar event. You can see the keyword is entered in.

   

6. Now we need to enable the start auto action and add an action. In the action we will call service / and turn ON the “Halloween By-pass”.

   

   Now when the calendar start event fires it will disable your normal everyday lights turning them OFF and turning ON you Halloween Lights automations.

7. At the end of the calendar event we need to reset your lights back to normal lights again. To do this we need to enable the end auto action and add an action. In the action we will call service / and turn OFF the “Halloween By-pass”.

   

   Now when the calendar end event fires it will disable your Halloween Lights automations and turn them OFF and turn ON you normal everyday lights. You are now back to normal.

Hope you like this new feature and create some nice Special Calendar Event Lighting.

Enjoy

Blacky

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