Hi gar.nelson,
Welcome to the forum. Let’s see if I can be of any assistance.
Your best bet would be to look at the Blueprints Exchange - Home Assistant Community category and find a blueprint that one of the community members has written that will help you with this. I believe there are several. I have one that doesn’t do exactly that but similar as well.
If you are looking for tips on other things, The Home Assistant Cookbook - Index might be able to help there.