Weekday vs Weekend Automation Config

Configuration
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With the current versions on Home Assistant, I would hope there is a less complex way to have an automation config that has an action to turn on a light at one time on a weekday and another time on a weekend. But it still seems overly complicated. This is what I’ve come up with, can anyone let me know if there is a simpler solution to handle this?

alias: Basement Light On
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "06:00:00"
    id: weekday
    alias: Weekday Trigger
  - platform: time
    at: "09:00:00"
    id: weekend
    alias: Weekend Trigger
condition: []
action:
  - if:
      - condition: trigger
        id: weekday
      - condition: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.workday_sensor
        state: "on"
    then:
      - service: light.turn_on
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id: light.basement
    alias: Weekday action
  - if:
      - condition: trigger
        id: weekend
      - condition: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.workday_sensor
        state: "off"
    then:
      - service: light.turn_on
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id: light.basement
    alias: Weekend action
mode: single
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2

How are you defining “simpler”?

3

You can create a template sensor and trigger off that.

template:
- sensor:
  - name: Basement Light Time
    device_class: timestamp
    state: >
      {% set weekday = today_at("06:00") %}
      {% set weekend = today_at("09:00") %}
      {{ iif(is_state('binary_sensor.workday_sensor', 'on'), weekday, weekend) }}

And then your automation

alias: Basement Light On
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: sensor.basement_light_time
action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: light.basement
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4

Set up a Schedule helper via the UI. Then:

alias: Basement Light manager
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: schedule.basement_light
action:
  - service: light.turn_{{ trigger.to_state.state }}
    target:
      entity_id: light.basement

This also turns it off based on your schedule — if that’s not time-based, how are you switching it off?

Alternatively, yet another way to do exactly what you’ve asked for:

alias: Basement Light On
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "06:00:00"
    id: wk_on
  - platform: time
    at: "09:00:00"
    id: wk_off
condition:
  - "{{ is_state('binary_sensor.workday_sensor', trigger.id.split('_')[1]) }}"
action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: light.basement
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5

Honestly, the way you have it seems to be pretty ‘simple’. You could also just have two different automations - and, while simpler, does create an extra automation.

Always multiple ways to do things in HA - really comes down to finding a ‘relatively standardized’ process (in your head anyways) and sticking w/ that.

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6

Thanks everyone. I was trying to avoid referencing the same action twice, and these are some great ideas to explore.