Time pattern trigger

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1

I would like to set the time pattern trigger in a trigger to trigger an automation every 10 minutes over a 2 hour period. Since my automation is a bit larger, I don’t want to create multiple triggers (like in the example). Or is it possible to group the triggers? Or can I write everything in one trigger? I don’t want to work with a condition because otherwise the trigger will always fire in the remaining 22 hours.

Example:
Hour: 9
Minute: /10

Hour: 10
Minutes: 10

2

Any 2 hours or 2 specific hours?

If any 2 hours, what starts the 2 hour window?

Is it 2 hours after a “start” is pressed and every 10 minutes for 11 subsequent times? …or is it always 10 past, 20 past…?

3

Why not?

You can give them the same ID so that you can use that as criteria in choose or if/then actions.

Or you could use a template trigger:

platform: template
value_template: "{{ now().hour in [9,10] and now().minute % 10 == 0 }}"
4

I created an automation that controls my entire house (North side, South side, West side, East side) in one automation. The sun, temperature, lux values ​​are conditions. Unfortunately, the entire automation becomes a bit confusing.

5

Post the automation.

Also, is it the same automation that inspired you to create this Feature Request?

6

This should work in combination with the rest of your automation, for 09:00 to 10:50 operation:

trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    minutes: "/10"
    id: ten_mins
condition:
  - or:
    - "{{ trigger.id == "ten_mins" and now().hour in (9,10) }}"
    - "{{ trigger.id != "ten_mins" }}"

It would have helped if you’d posted the rest of the automation: there may be a cleaner solution.

7 
alias: example 
trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    hours: 9
    minutes: /10
  - platform: time_pattern
    hours: 10
    minutes: /10
condition: []
action:
  ... your actions ...
mode: single
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