Hello, I want to use the SQL sensor to read out the database form a bookingsystem I installed on my homeserver. The problem is that the data from the database is a time, which I want to use to trigger an automation in HA, but HA doesn´t show me this sensor as pickable option. How can I tell HA that the SQL sensor with the time can be used for automations?
What does the state of the sensor look like?
Where are you trying to “pick” it?
I will explain my setup. I have a bookingsystem running in a VM on my homeserver and there is a database where all bookings are stored. Because I found no other way to get the data to HA (which is running in an other VM) I use the SQL integration to readout the data over local network from the SQL server on the bookingsystem. The value in the database is a timestamp, but if I want to get this value with HA there is no value in the sensor. So I convert the timestamp from the SQL database to a string in my SELECT command of the integration and this is working, but thats also the point where I´m standing for now.
To trigger an automation with this you need a template trigger, where you compare the time from the sensor, which you will need to convert in datetime or timestamp, against the current time.
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Hello, thanks for the answer, now everything is working fine for me. 