Which service to set a timeslot?

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TCP connection (from inverter) and MQTT implementation

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Which service to set a timeslot? #172

Closed yavinmaster closed 6 months ago

yavinmaster commented 6 months ago

How do you set a timeslot to a time in a HomeAssistant automation? Is it a service call, if so which one?

Sorry for the fundamental question but for some reason I just can't find a solution.

gcoan commented 6 months ago

How do you set a timeslot to a time in a HomeAssistant automation? Is it a service call, if so which one?

Sorry for the fundamental question but for some reason I just can't find a solution.

If I have understood you correctly, you are trying to set a time such as charge/discharge start/end time.

This is how I do it in my scripts:

  - service: select.select_option
    data:
      option: "00:00:00"
    target:
      entity_id: select.givtcp_SERIALNO_discharge_start_time_slot_1
  - service: select.select_option
    data:
      option: "23:59:00"
    target:
      entity_id: select.givtcp_SERIALNO_discharge_end_time_slot_1

yavinmaster commented 6 months ago

Thanks for the reply. That is what I'm trying to do. If I however try this in an automation and select the select.select_option service, then the givtcp timeslots aren't available to select as entities. I could try it in yaml but why are they not available?

gcoan commented 6 months ago

I suspect you are almost certainly using the input_select.select service rather than the select.select service.

I made this mistake myself early on in my scripts.

Here's the difference:

yavinmaster commented 6 months ago

Thank you so much. You were absolutely correct. I've not tested the automation yet, but based on you information I'm confident I have it now.