Trigger template with a condition

Configuration
1

I am trying to do a template sensor that has a trigger with a condition that does an action and I’m running into formatting trouble.

I have a templates.yaml this is included from configuration.yaml. Here is what I have, but I cannot figure out where to put the condition so that it only runs on Mon-Fri:

- trigger:
  - trigger: time
    at: "08:45:00"
  condition:
    - condition: time

  action:
    - action: google_generative_ai_conversation.generate_content
      response_variable: response
      data:
        prompt: >-
          Tell me a joke

I cannot figure out how to get the condition. I’ve been following the docs and every combination of putting a condition in gives me some kind of error.

Any help would be appreciated.

2

This is in my sensors.yaml file. It returns the weekday number, 0-6 with Monday=0. So, anything below 5 is a weekday.

# sensor.weekday_number    (Integer between 0-6)
- platform: template
  sensors:
    weekday_number:
      friendly_name: "Weekday Number"
      value_template: "{{ now().weekday() }}"
3

Why are you trying to do this in a ‘template sensor with an action’ rather than using a simple automation?
You could easily add the condition there in - even in the GUI - where it would look like this:

conditions:
  - condition: time
    weekday:
      - mon
      - tue
      - wed
      - thu
      - fri

Not sure if it would work in the sensor the same way, though.

4

The short answer is probably “ignorance” as I can’t figure out how to do this in an automation. What I’m doing is getting a AI response and putting that in a response variable. Then passing that variable to a rest command to do a POST as a message body. I’ve done similar things with a trigger template, but it just triggers on a simple state change, not a time trigger only on certain days.

5

I’m using a script to do this - probably can easily be done in an automation as well, but … see the end:

sequence:
  - action: google_generative_ai_conversation.generate_content
    data:
      prompt: >-
        Pick a A-List actor whose birthday it is today and respond with a
        sentence in the following structure but do not pronounce any special
        caharacters like 'asterisk'

        Fun Fact for the Day - Did you know it's <Actor's Name> birthday today?
        <He/She/They are turning XX years old and one of their best known roles
        was in <the name of movie or TV show>
    response_variable: generated_content
  - data:
      message: "{{ generated_content['text'] }}"
      title: AI Testing
      data:
        ttl: 0
        priority: high
    action: notify.mobile_app_pixel_4a

But beware: the result might just be a hallucination; i.e. the joke might not be funny :stuck_out_tongue: