I know that we can create schedules with calendar and/or with helpers, but.
WTH is the schedule not a native part of automation process.
It makes so much sense that an automation would have some sort of way to say:
- “I want this action to be performed from this time to this time in the morning on work days”
- “I need to dry this room, but it can be only done in these specific time frames due to noise”
- etc.
Don’t get me wrong, the addition of schedule helpers in 2022.9 is awesome, but wouldn’t it make more sense to have it in automation as well so that we do not have to create several entities worth of schedules to just power the automatons and thus create clutter of otherwise “useless” entities whilst also creating new unnecessary entries in the DB (I know you can disable logging for them, but it’s one more step).
My proposal of the UI/UX would be to either copy over the schedule selector from the helper creation dialog OR a “time scheme” style similar to the one the custom “Scheduler card” is using.