Advise needed.

[oywino]

I'm looking for a way to trigger an automation only at the very first user activity on a windows machine between 07:15 am and 08:00 am daily. I have a feeling I could use the LastActive Sensor, but I'm not sure how.
Any help is appreciated.

[sleevezipper]

Hi! The LastActive sensor is going to change a little bit as it isn't being parsed as point in time correctly. Next release should be later today and that is going to make your use case a lot easier.

[oywino]

Great! Can you suggest how you would write up such a trigger ?

[sleevezipper]

Ah I see. That's a tricky one! I'm not really sure how to do that. I'll ask around.

[Hankanman]

Okay I needed a binary sensor for if the pc was active.

First you need a last active sensor from Hass Workstation (sensor.last_active in this example)

Then I have two custom template sensors:

Minutes since last active:
- platform: template sensors: time_since_last_active: unit_of_measurement: Minutes value_template: "{{ (states('sensor.date_time_iso') | as_timestamp / 60) | round(0, 'floor') - (states('sensor.last_active') | as_timestamp / 60) | round(0, 'floor') }}"

Then us that sensor to see if someone used the pc in the last 5 minutes as a binary sensor:
- platform: template pc_active: friendly_name: "PC Active" device_class: presence value_template: >- {{ states('sensor.time_since_last_active') | int < 5 }}

[Hankanman]

[Hankanman]

Sorry code is formatted a bit weird, on mobile right now
binary sensor syntax: Binary Sensor Template
Template sensor syntax: Template Sensor

You can use the binary sensor to trigger the automation with a condition in the automation for the specific time you want so should be what you need!

[sleevezipper]

Oh that's a nifty template sensor.

[oywino]

This is how I solved it:

alias: Daily Action
description: ' '
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: sensor.lastactive
condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: >-
      {% if as_timestamp(states.sensor.lastactive.last_changed) |
      timestamp_custom('%H') == '07' %}true{% else %}false{% endif %}
action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: switch.action
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 60
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
mode: single

The above automation will only trigger once within the 7th hour of each day.