Weekend and Weekday awareness with automation (apologies in advance!)

Configuration
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Hi all,

I’m very sorry about asking what might be a trivial question, I promise I’ve searched for a while first!

I can understand how to setup an automation, such as turn something off/on at a certain times, but I’m looking for an easy way to say:

turn off at 11:30pm IF Saturday or Sunday
turn off at 10pm IF Monday-Friday.

Is there a way of doing this, without having to learn too much :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance!

Chris

My config if background info is helpful (it’s on a Pi)

Homeass
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Here is an automation that does similar things to what you are describing.

  alias: Roomba - FR and Study Lights on
  description: Vacuum Study and Family Room - Control Lights
  trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: input_datetime.roomba_start
  - platform: time
    at: input_datetime.roomba_end
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: homeassistant.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: input_boolean.vacuum
  - choose:
    - conditions:
      - condition: time
        after: input_datetime.roomba_start
        weekday:
        - mon
        - wed
        - fri
        before: input_datetime.roomba_end
      sequence:
      - type: turn_on
        device_id: ad401f2424017d0df206d3ca3f1cd602
        entity_id: light.study_cans_current_value
        domain: light
        brightness_pct: 60
      - type: turn_on
        device_id: 7260181aea2544798fc29aa843d5cc71
        entity_id: switch.kitchen_table_light
        domain: switch
      - type: turn_on
        device_id: 5fdaa8f94d25448f5c1464839d4dd783
        entity_id: switch.family_room_standing_lamp
        domain: switch
    - conditions:
      - condition: time
        after: input_datetime.roomba_end
        weekday:
        - mon
        - wed
        - fri
        before: '23:57:00'
      sequence:
      - type: turn_off
        device_id: ad401f2424017d0df206d3ca3f1cd602
        entity_id: light.study_cans_current_value
        domain: light
      - type: turn_off
        device_id: 5fdaa8f94d25448f5c1464839d4dd783
        entity_id: switch.family_room_standing_lamp
        domain: switch
      - type: turn_off
        device_id: 7260181aea2544798fc29aa843d5cc71
        entity_id: switch.kitchen_table_light
        domain: switch
      - service: homeassistant.turn_off
        target:
          entity_id: input_boolean.vacuum
    default: []
  mode: single

This is what it looks like from the GUI:

Screenshot from 2021-11-11 09-26-13
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Here is a sample automation

alias: Trigger Time and Day
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: '22:00:00'
condition:
  - condition: time
    after: '22:00:00'
    weekday:
      - mon
      - tue
      - wed
      - thu
      - fri
action:
  - service: switch.turn_off
    target:
      entity_id: switch.family_room_fan_light
mode: single
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Thank you @AllHailJ for responding so quickly, I’ll give this a go. Really appreciated!

4

The built-in method that @AllHailJ showed does require the least learning, but if you end up needing to do a lot of automations that differentiate between weekdays and non-weekdays it can get annoying toggling all those switches.

I use a template binary sensor. It is “on” if it’s a weekday and “off” if it’s the weekend.

### configuration.yaml

template:
  binary_sensor:
    - name: Weekday
      icon: mdi:calendar-check
      state: >-
        {{ 1 <= now().isoweekday() <= 5 }}

Example Automation

alias: Turn off the switch every night
description: 'Turn switch off at specified times for weekdays and weekends'
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: '22:00:00'
    id: Weekday
  - platform: time
    at: '23:30:00'
    id: Weekend
condition: []
action:
  - choose:
    - conditions:
      - condition: trigger
        id: Weekday
      - condition: state
         entity_id: binary_sensor.weekday
         state: "on"
      sequence:
        - service: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: switch.family_room_fan_light
    - conditions:
      - condition: trigger
        id: Weekend
      - condition: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.weekday
        state: "off"
      sequence:
        - service: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: switch.family_room_fan_light
    default: []
mode: single
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5

Thank you very much for that.

I am in the early days and in honesty, don’t understand the majority (no IT background) of what I’m seeing, but I’m getting there…very slowly!

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The workday sensor of course

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