Trigger automation 15 minutes before date_time stored in input_datetime

Thanks for this thread, it just helped me fix my problem :wink:

Hi guys I also have a stupid question. I have a robotic lawnmower which mows on certain days. I set the whole thing in the app and via the Landroid Cloud I get the day and time written as a value in a data point.

Now I want to pick up this time stamp but I want to perform another action 30 seconds beforehand and that is to raise the garage doors of my robotic lawnmower garage.

My idea was to create a helper where I set the seconds, how much earlier he should raise the shutters and then another helper then updates the new time stamp. But maybe I’m thinking too complicated and it’s much easier. Ultimately, I just need a trigger (i.e. an automation) which triggers, for example, 30 seconds beforehand and then raises the roller shutters.

What is the best way to do this? If possible, please explain in a beginner-friendly way. Thank you very much :slight_smile:

The Landroid entity for the next start looks like this:

And the second problem is that the time is displayed 2 hours back, even though I have set the correct time zone for Germany. So the planned start is 11:30 but the time displayed is 9:30 as shown in the picture.

this is posted in another thread as well. see the response there. best to not add to existing threads (especially duplicating on multiple threads). create a new one for a new question