Trigger second saturday of the month

fiek

Is it possible to make a flow that triggers every second saturday of the month?

bvdbos

Not easily I think. You could create a variable which counts the number of saturdays in a month and reset the counter for every month. You need a couple of flows for this. I think the easiest would be to create a calendar (i.e. in google) and use the ical-app for this...

Fire69

Hm, I thought this would be easy but there are some essentials time/date cards missing...
You can put 2 cards in the 'And': Today is a saturday / Week number is 2
But there's no usable card for the 'If'... 

fiek

I first tried both of your suggestions gentlemen, but I thought I was missing something hence my question The iCal app would be the easiest, but there is stil a bug in the app concerning recurrent appointments

Fire69

fiek said:

I first tried both of your suggestions gentlemen, but I thought I was missing something hence my question The iCal app would be the easiest, but there is stil a bug in the app concerning recurrent appointments

Yeah, too bad about that bug.  I'm afraid it won't get fixed soon/ever. 

lex

You don't have to count the number of saturdays in a month. 
A check whether the current weekday is a saturday AND the current daynumber in this month is between 8 and 14 (including the 8 and 14), would do it.

Fire69

Same problem, no?
You have to check both those conditions in the 'and' column, so there's no trigger for your flow. 

MrDutchfighter

Fire69 said:

Same problem, no?
You have to check both those conditions in the 'and' column, so there's no trigger for your flow. 

You can trigger it every saturday... the then only gets executed when your two checks pass.

Fire69

There is no card for the 'if' column to trigger every saturday?

GeurtDijker

You could trigger every day at xx:xx , checking the day, 
And its Saturday,
and checking 26 times: not 1st, not 2nd, not 3rd, .... not 31st day of the month, leaving the 7th ... 14th out. 

https://github.com/athombv/homey/issues/1126

keverjeroen

I use this app in combination with Google Calendar for that sort of triggers: https://apps.athom.com/app/nl.netactive.homey.ical2voice Works perfect!

Fire69

GeurtDijker said:

You could trigger every day at xx:xx , checking the day, 
And its Saturday,
and checking 26 times: not 1st, not 2nd, not 3rd, .... not 31st day of the month, leaving the 7th ... 14th out. 

https://github.com/athombv/homey/issues/1126

Why check all those dates? Isn't this easier than?

lex

Fire69 said:

Why check all those dates? Isn't this easier than?

The "Weeknummer" counts the number of weeks already passed in the current year (and not in the current month).

Fire69

lex said:

Fire69 said:

Why check all those dates? Isn't this easier than?

The "Weeknummer" counts the number of weeks already passed in the current year (and not in the current month).

Doh, completely missed that!  

JPe

@fiek  , you can do this with a flow like this:
If  time = 00:01      And     Day = Saturday   And   day number is between 8 and 14   Then .............
  ( it's not exactly "between", but between and including the mentioned day's ).