Was delighted today to find the “Launch Library” integration today…
… Then bummed when I couldn’t find a way to get an automation to trigger from the time-to-launch sensor.
What does it take to get sensors like those to be exposed as a trigger for an automation?
Today I stumbled on your same problem If you want we can try and solve it together. I will start with this automation and will improve it along the way.
For now this will send a notification when launch time is lest than 1 day (to be honest I dont think this will work but this is a start)
Hey! Just noticed your message, and I’d like to work on that automation with you, as you suggested… just as soon as I fix this @#$!@ WLED problem (hopefully sometime tonight).
That trigger will never fire because the sensor’s state is a datetime string not a number. You could use a numeric state trigger if you added a value_template, but it would be easier to just use a template trigger: