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nielsfaber / scheduler-card

HA Lovelace card for control of scheduler entities
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Add ability to disable timeslot execution on hass restart #332

Closed odya closed 3 years ago

odya commented 3 years ago

Current scheduler behaviour looks great when we use it not for controlling stateful entities (like heaters or lights). But it becomes confusing when you trying to automate something stateless (e.g. cat feeder, watering plants).

I think it would be great to have ability to control timeslot execution on hass restart via some parameter.

nielsfaber commented 3 years ago

The behaviour you're describing is part of the timeslot concept: it works over a period rather than a single time instance. I suggest you to just make the timeslot shorter if you don't want it to (re)trigger any action during the whole period. As far as I know, there is no such thing as a stateless entity in HA. Could you clarify? Your request seems to cover a rather specific use-case, I'm not sure if the scheduler needs such functionality.

KTibow commented 3 years ago

As far as I know, there is no such thing as a stateless entity in HA.

Yes, but you could create an entity with a never-changing state.

I'm not sure if the scheduler needs such functionality.

Personally, I agree.