Weekday and Weekend router timer?

1

I am using the Binary workday sensor and it is working fine during the week. I would like to have a different time setup for the weekend if possible. I have searched the forums and tried many different things to get the timers to work for [sat, sun] but have had no luck. the workday sensor follows the same time all week and the router turns on at 3pm and off at 8pm. I tried to add [sat, sun] to the sensor with no success. Thanks for your help.

binary_sensor:
  - platform: workday
    country: US
    workdays: [mon, tue, wed, thu, fri]


- alias: Turn on Wifi workdays
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '15:00:00'
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: 'binary_sensor.workday_sensor'
    state: 'on'
  action:
    service: switch.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.router

- alias: Turn off Wifi workdays
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '20:00:00'
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: 'binary_sensor.workday_sensor'
    state: 'off'
  action:
    service: switch.turn_off
    entity_id: switch.router

- alias: Turn on Wifi weekends
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '09:00:00'
  condition:
  - condition: time
    weekday:
      - sat
      - sun
  - condition: state
    entity_id: 'binary_sensor.workday_sensor'
    state: 'on'
  action:
    service: switch.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.router

- alias: Turn off Wifi weekends
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '23:00:00'
  condition:
  - condition: time
    weekday:
      - sat
      - sun
  - condition: state
    entity_id: 'binary_sensor.workday_sensor'
    state: 'off'
  action:
    service: switch.turn_off
    entity_id: switch.router`
2

You’re sure that your router is switched off at 20h on weekdays?
The condition says it only turns off when it not a workday, i.e. on the weekend.

And forget about trying to add Saturday and Sunday to the condition - your workday sensor already gives you that information.
Workday = on => Mon - Fri
Workday = off => Sat - Sun

3

The switch seems to follow the 3pm on and 8pm off no matter what day of the week it is. Is there a better way to do a weekday and weekend on-off schedule. I would like to have the switch on from 8am to 11pm on weekends. Thanks.

4

That’s how I manage my weekday vs. weekend automations:

- alias: NespressoPlug - turn on weekdays
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '05:30:00'
  condition: 
    - condition: state
      entity_id: group.people
      state: 'home'
    - condition: time
      weekday:
        - mon
        - tue
        - wed
        - thu
        - fri
  action:
    - service: switch.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.nespressoplug
- alias: NespressoPlug - turn on weekends
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '07:00:00'
  condition: 
    - condition: state
      entity_id: group.people
      state: 'home'
    - condition: time
      weekday:
        - sat
        - sun
  action:
    - service: switch.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.nespressoplug

I know it could probably me be merged into one - but I’m a big fan of simplicity and ‘don’t fix it if it ain’t broke’ :grin:

5

Thank You for the help. I will have to try your example later this week. For the section I copied below what needs to be put into the groups.yaml? When i look under my entity id’s i have a group.all_switches or group.all_automatons. There is nothing in my group.ymal file. I will try it without this section as maybe that part of the augment isn’t needed.

condition: 
    - condition: state
      entity_id: group.people
      state: 'home'
6

This is the automation setup I have now and it is working great. Just wanted to post it here in case it helps someone else who is looking for something similar. Thank you for your help.

- alias: Turn on Wifi workdays
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '15:00:00'
  condition: 
    - condition: time
      weekday:
        - mon
        - tue
        - wed
        - thu
        - fri
  action:
    service: switch.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.router

- alias: Turn off Wifi workdays
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '20:00:00'
  condition: 
    - condition: time
      weekday:
        - mon
        - tue
        - wed
        - thu
        - fri
  action:
    service: switch.turn_off
    entity_id: switch.router

- alias: Turn on Wifi weekends
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '08:00:00'
  condition: 
    - condition: time
      weekday:
        - sat
        - sun
  action:
    service: switch.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.router

- alias: Turn off Wifi weekends
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '23:00:00'
  condition: 
    - condition: time
      weekday:
        - sat
        - sun
  action:
    service: switch.turn_off
    entity_id: switch.router
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