Use weekday in rule

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Hi everybody,

is it possible to trigger rules only on specific days, let’s say monday till friday?

Thanks in advance.

BTW is it possible to use brackets in rule conditions? IF (variable1=1 or variable2=1) and it is friday DO …

@Anduril

“if it is before sunrise and it is after 06:32 and it is monday” works fine.

I tried something like If weekday is … and was wondering how to do that… sometime it’s realy simple. Thank you very much @vanturenhout. What about brackets, is that possible somehow?

Yes. You have to use [ ] brackets.

I use it like this
IF it is [Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday] and it is 8.00 THEN do some stuff

@leader21 said:

IF it is [Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday] and it is 8.00 THEN

I get this exception:

Could not find an provider that decides next predicate of "it is [monday or tuesday or wednesday or thursday or friday] and it is 06:40".

with this rule:

{ "id": "opstaan-weekdagen", "name": "Opstaan Weekdagen", "rule": "if it is [monday or tuesday or wednesday or thursday or friday] and it is 06:40 then switch lampje on and switch Halogeenlamp on", "active": true, "logging": true }

What is wrong here??

I’ve created a variable weekday for this and 2 rules to set the variable, like this:
its monday or its tuesday or its wednesday or its thursday or its friday then set $Weekday to 1
And for Saturday and Sunday I have a rule to set it back to 0.
This way I can look for the value which has been set in that variable

Try without the brackets. cannot tell you why this won’t work anymore but without it should. or use the example of @Cryonic90 which is a very good one to keep rules clean. thx for pointing at this!

@Cryonic90 You can write it like this
its monday or tuesday or wednesday or thursday or friday

Some time ago I had this problem too, and found out that it works with brackets when leaving out the ‘it is’. Strange, but it works.

you are right!! just testet it without it is or its
IF [monday or tuesday or ...] THEN do some stuff works perfectly
but when typing in the rule into the gui i get some errors

@leader21 said:

but when typing in the rule into the gui i get some errors

would be nice if somebody could fix it. nevertheless the rule works if the brackets are complete