Request/Enhancement: Enable entities to exist as Date/Time helpers

[FirstRulez]

The purpose of this request is so that I can use these date/time sensors within Automations and they are selectable as a Date/Time helper in an Automation Condition

[pnbruckner]

According to the docs you can already do this:

or another sensor entity containing a timestamp with the “timestamp” device class, can be used instead.

E.g., I just tried this:

automations:
- trigger:
  - platform: homeassistant
    event: start
  condition:
  - condition: time
    before: sensor.sunset
  action:
  - event: TEST

And it fired the event.

The problem seems to be the frontent. It's only allowing selection of input_datetime entities when it should also allow sensor entities that have a timestamp device class (which the sun2 "point in time" sensors do. have) You should open an issue with HA (or its frontend.)

[FirstRulez]

The problem seems to be the frontent. It's only allowing selection of input_datetime entities when it should also allow sensor entities that have a timestamp device class (which the sun2 "point in time" sensors do. have) You should open an issue with HA (or its frontend.)

Thank you. appreciate the feedback - I will try to set up the automations using the config files (I'm not very good at it, but I think your help above should set me on the right path.