Time
The Time integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] is built for controlling and monitoring times on devices.
Building block integration
This time is a building block integration that cannot be added to your Home Assistant directly but is used and provided by other integrations.
A building block integration differs from the typical integration that connects to a device or service. Instead, other integrations that do integrate a device or service into Home Assistant use this time building block to provide entities, services, and other functionality that you can use in your automations or dashboards.
If one of your integrations features this building block, this page documents the functionality the time building block offers.
If you are looking for a way to create a similar entity, please take a look at the Date/Time helper.
The state of a time entity
The state of a time entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more] is a timestamp in the format HH:MM:SS.
Screenshot showing the state of a time entity in the developer tools.
In addition, the entity can have the following states:
- Unavailable: The entity is currently unavailable.
- Unknown: The state is not yet known.
Actions
Time actions
Available actions: time.set_value
Action time.set_value
Set a new value for the time entity.
| Data attribute | Optional | Description |
|---|---|---|
entity_id |
no | String or list of strings that point at entity_id’s of times to control. |
time |
no | New time value to set. |