Water plants every three days

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1

Hi, at the moment i water my plants every day for 10 minutes. That´s to much.
I want to water them every three days for ten minutes.
Need some help with the code.
That´s the code I use at the moment:

  - trigger: 
      platform: time
      at: '07:00:00'
    action:
      service: switch.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.sonoff_pumpe_teich
  - trigger: 
      platform: time
      at: '07:10:00'
    action:
      service: switch.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.sonoff_pumpe_teich
2

You could simply add a condition to specify days:

weekday:
    - mon
    - wed
    - fri

Or a condition based on state off:

state: 'off'
    for:
      minutes: 4310

Or use a template to compare the current time to state.last_changed of your Sonoff.

3

Yep, or get a moisture sensor and apply water when needed.

Or water on days divisible by 3 (ie on the 3rd, 6th, 9th etc. - Gets a bit weird at the end of the month depending which month it is).

4

Or… this cool solution from @Tinkerer using an input slider

So many possibilities :grin: let us know if you need more help.

5

Thank you for your support. I´ll try that code and we will see what happened.

  - trigger: 
      platform: time
      at: '07:00:00'
    condition:
      condition: time
      weekday: sun
      weekday: wed
    action:
      service: switch.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.sonoff_pumpe_teich
  - trigger: 
      platform: time
      at: '07:10:00'
    condition:
      condition: time
      weekday: sun
      weekday: wed
    action:
      service: switch.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.sonoff_pumpe_teich
6

I´ve tryed a moisture sensor but after two weeks the sensor was corroded an unuseable

7

Don’t want to spoil the surpize… but it will probably not work as your syntax is wrong. It need to be the same way as in my reply and specified in the docs.

   weekday:
     - sun
     - wed
8

Hi, worked perfect! Thank you!