Help with automation to manually update next collection date from input_datetime

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Hi,

Wondering if anyone can help me with something.

Been using this for a while with my regular collections, but my glass collection is on a really odd schedule, kind of a random date every 3 months, but not following any pattern.

I have seen the automation to add a date. I was wondering how to change it so it could load the date from a input_datetime helper?

alias: garbage_collection event description: "Manually add a collection date, then trigger entity state update." trigger:

• platform: event event_type: garbage_collection_loaded event_data: entity_id: sensor.test action:
• service: garbage_collection.add_date data: entity_id: "{{ trigger.event.data.entity_id }}" date: "2022-01-07" <- this here, I would like to instead load from a input_datetime.glass so that I could programatically change this
• service: garbage_collection.update_state data: entity_id: sensor.test mode: single

I have tried it via "{{ state.input_datetime.glass }}" etc but I can't seem to figure it out. I am guessing this could be useful for other people as well, ie if they are scrapping specific dates from a website they could just update a helper and have the automation blue print update it from there.

Thank you in advance, Best regards, Daniel

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