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title: "Scheduler"
description: "Instructions how to setup the scheduler within Home Assistant."
date: 2015-03-23 19:59
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A component that will act as a scheduler and performe actions based
on the events in the schedule.

It will read a json object from `schedule.json` in the config dir and create a schedule based on it.

Each schedule is a JSON with the keys `id`, `name`, `description`, `entity_ids`, `events`.

- days is an array with the weekday number (monday=0) that the schdule
    is active
- entity_ids an array with entity ids that the events in the schedule should
    effect (can also be groups)
- events is an array of objects that describe the different events that is
    supported. Read in the events descriptions for more information