Scheduler


A component that will act as a scheduler and performe actions based on the events in the schedule.

It will read a json object from schedule.json in the config dir and create a schedule based on it.

Each schedule is a JSON with the keys id, name, description, entity_ids, events.

  • days is an array with the weekday number (monday=0) that the schdule is active
  • entity_ids an array with entity ids that the events in the schedule should effect (can also be groups)
  • events is an array of objects that describe the different events that is supported. Read in the events descriptions for more information

Example schedule.json

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[
    {
        "id": "window_lamps",
        "name": "Window lamps",
        "description": "Turn on window lamps on sunset and turn off at 22:30",
        "days": [0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
        "entity_ids": [
            "group.window_lamps"
        ],
        "events": [
            {
                "type": "time",
                "service": "switch.turn_off",
                "time": "22:30:00"
            },
            {
                "type": "sun",
                "service": "switch.turn_on",
                "event": "sunset",
                "offset": "-00:45:00"
            }
        ]
    }
]