Templates as automation triggers with time

[Hellis81]

And here is my template sensor on the next alarm to get a human friendly time. (Today, tomorrow, Friday, 2020…)

"human friendly" template for next alarm (companion app)

I don’t like the timestamp format used by the app(s) so I first did a simple Y-m-d H:m format, but even that looked unnatural. 2020-09-30… instead of just “tomorrow”. So I decided to build a template that makes a human friendly format. Unavailable is replaced with “No alarm” “Today hh:mm” “Tomorrow hh:mm” “Monday hh:mm” (where monday is in local language) “2020-10-05 hh:mm” if the date is more than a week away of course the actual format can be changed. The first five lines is the part tha…