esphome-datetime

Adds a datime component to esphome. You will be able to pick a datetime, a date, or a time over the web_server frontend and Trigger automations based on the time provided by the user after compile time

This is the basic structure in the yaml config

datetime:
  - platform: template
    id: my_datetime
    name: Time to turn the switch on
    time_id: my_time
    optimistic: yes
    # valid formats are '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' - '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M' - '%H:%M:%S' - '%H:%M'
    initial_value: "16:45:20"
    on_time:
      - switch.turn_on:
          id: my_switch

time_id is needed if you provide an on_time automation. It can be any time component(sntp/ds1307/..)

time:
  - platform: sntp
    id: my_time

Installation

It is not part of esphome at this point in time and to be able to make it work some core files of esphope had to be changed. So if you want to try it out you would need to build a custom version of esphome using this Github Fork of esphome rfdarter-add-input_datetime

You will also need a modified version of the esphome-web_server component, found here rfdarter-esphome-webserver

Or simply use the build js file provided here in this repository and place it in the same directory as your config.yaml and add this to your conif.yaml

web_server:
  js_include: "www.js"
  js_url: ""

Installation on Windows

Here is a way you could install it on a windows maschine using PowerShell Assuming you have Python and PIP installed

Step 1. Download the zip file of this repo and extract its content https://github.com/RFDarter/esphome/archive/refs/heads/add-datetime.zip

Step 2. Open a PowerShell and navigate to the downloaded folder

cd C:\Users\darter\Downloads\esphome-add-datetime\esphome-add-datetime

Step 3. Create a Virtual Environment

python3 -m venv .venv

Step 4 Activate it

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass

.venv\Scripts\activate

if it worked your promt should have changed to (.venv) PS C:\Users\darter\Downloads\esphome-add-datetime>

Step 5 Install esphome on this virtual environment using the downloaded fork

pip install -r .\requirements.txt

pip install -e .

Step 6. Use esphome as normal

esphome run my_config.yaml

To use it again after you closed the PowerShell just redo Step 4

That's what it will look like on the front end

Todo

add api support