How to Automate "Work Mode" in Home Assistant

[albie999]

Now that Autum/WInter has arrived, this weekend really used most of my battery .. to the point, where the minimum SoC was reached, and therefore (due to hardly any solar), had to pull from the grid

Thankfully, I noticed this .. and changed my Work Mode from "Feed-in First" (my usual mode) to "Self-UIse" to at least try to charge the batteries, the occasional time the sun came out .. which it did manage to achieve

Anyway, looking at tryint to automate this in Home Assistant, so that when battery drops below 40%, it automatically changes to "Self-Use" mode, and then changes back to "Feed-in FIrst" once it gets to a resonable level (60% maybe)

I have looked in Home Assistant .. but cannot seem to figure the best way to automate this. When looking in Automation, the below entity does not seem to be selectable?

Can people please share there solutions

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[Dave Foster]

In the automation, click add Action - in the ‘search action’ box type ‘select’ and choose the one that says Select:Select (choose an option)

Click ‘Choose Entity’ and start typing ‘work’ and select the ‘WorkMode’, then in the Option box you have to type the option text exactly as follows (and match the case) -

for Feed in it is Feed-in First

and for Self Use it is Self Use

That’s it - when the action runs it will change the workmode.

[albie999]

Thanks Dave, it was that "optional" bit that got me .. I was expecting to see a "selection" ..... I wil try this out