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The workday binary sensor indicates, whether the current day is a workday or not. It allows specifying, which days of the week counts as workdays and also uses the python module holidays to incorporate information about region-specific public holidays.

To enable the workday sensor in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: workday
    country: DE
    workdays: [ mon, wed, fri ]

Configuration variables:

  • name (Optional): A name for this sensor. Defaults to Workday Sensor
  • country (Required): Country code according to holidays notation.
  • province (Optional): Province code according to holidays notation. Defaults to None.
  • workdays (Optional): List of workdays. Defaults to mon, tue, wed, thu, fri.
  • excludes (Optional): List of workday excludes. Defaults to sat, sun, holiday.
  • days_offset (Optional): Set days offset. Defaults to 0.

Days are specified as follows: mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, sun. The keyword holiday is used for public holidays identified by the holidays module.

If you use the sensor for Canada (`CA`) with Ontario (`ON`) as `province:` then you need to wrap `ON` in quotes. Otherwise the value is evaluated as `True` (check the YAML documentation for further details) and the sensor will not work.

Example usage for automation:

automation:
  alias: Turn on heater on workdays
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '08:00:00'
  condition:
    condition: state
    entity_id: 'binary_sensor.workday_sensor'
    state: 'on'
  action:
    service: switch.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.heater