Workday sensor giving invalid config on 2022.3.0

Configuration
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After updating to 2022.3 i’m getting an invalid config error for my binary_sensor.workday:

Invalid config for [binary_sensor.workday]: Country is not supported. for dictionary value @ data['country']. Got 'IE'.

This is my config:

- platform: workday
  country: IE
  workdays: [mon, tue, wed, thu, fri]
  excludes: [sat, sun, holiday]

I note that there were some changes to workdays in this release, but nothing breaking. I’ve checked the country code for Ireland and it’s correct.

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There seems to be an issue with the Holidays Library that’s used for this component…there are issues open on GitHub for it…think we just need to wait until its fixed :roll_eyes:

https://github.com/dr-prodigy/python-holidays/issues/636
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/67542
https://github.com/bruxy70/Holidays/issues/28
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Yes, I’ve been tracking it over there as well. Look like the Python library needs to be updated.

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Looks like you need to specify country and province - see docs at Workday - Home Assistant for a link to the list of provinces… for me the below brought things back to life…

 platform: workday
  country: GB
  province: England
  workdays: [mon, tue, wed, thu, fri]
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Thanks @squiggleuk, but this problem seems to only affect Ireland. For some reason it seems to have been included as a sub-class of the UK definition :astonished: @Gav_in has posted links above to the issue.

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I was getting similar error for specifying country as ‘England’ - there’s a change here impacting both for sure

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from a technical perspective think the problem is that Ireland hasn’t been specified as either a class/top-level entry (eg Country) or a sub-class entry (eg Province) so doesn’t show up as an option anywhere…think either would work (technically) if the library was updated, obviously only one is right from a real world perspective :thinking: :man_shrugging:t2:
As noted above I think we just need to sit tight until the library is updated

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slightly off the Ireland not there topic, but this should work for you…
you have to specify country and then province if you want to drill to a more specific level.

  - platform: workday
    country: GB #without a province default is UK (i.e. whole UK)
    province: England
    workdays: [mon, tue, wed, thu, fri]
    excludes: [sat, sun, holiday]

now back to WFT Ireland isn’t there anymore :thinking: :grin:

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Thanks for this. Hopefully this morning will be the last time that my automations think it is a holiday and gives everyone a lie-in when it is a workday in England. (It is St Patrick’s Day today, which is a holiday in Northern Ireland.)

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Just a heads up that since the release of 2022.7.0 the IE country code for Ireland is working again.

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