Molad Sensor

Molad Sensor for HACS

Installation

Download

Use HACS or download the molad directory from inside the apps directory here to your local apps directory

Integration Setup

• Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
• In the sidebar click on Configuration.
• From the configuration menu select: Integrations.
• In the bottom right, click on the Add Integration button.
• From the list, search and select "Molad".
• Follow the instruction on screen to complete the set up.
• After completing, the Molad sensors will be immediately available for use.

Usage

The timezone and location are fetched from your Home Assistant configuration. This app adds three sensors exposing Molad details for the upcoming Jewish Month:

1. sensor.molad with the upcoming Molad as the value and more detailed properties as attributes:

Attribute	Description	Example
day	Day of the week of the next Molad occurence	Sunday
hours	Hour of the next Molad occurence	3
minutes	Minutes of the next Molad occurence	36
am_or_pm	AM/PM of the next Molad occurence	pm
chalakim	Chalakim of the next Molad occurence	15
friendly	Human readable text of the next Molad occurence	Sunday, 3:36 pm and 15 chalakim
rosh_chodesh	Days of the week of next Rosh Chodesh	Monday & Tuesday
rosh_chodesh_days	List of days of the week of next Rosh Chodesh	Monday, Tuesday
is_shabbos_mevorchim	true if today is Shabbos Mevorchim, false if not	false
is_upcoming_shabbos_mevorchim	true if the upcoming Shabbos is Shabbos Mevorchim, false if not	false
month_name	Month name of next Rosh Chodesh	Tammuz

2. sensor.is_shabbos_mevorchim - true if today is Shabbos Mevorchim, false if not

3. sensor.is_upcoming_shabbos_mevorchim - true if the upcoming Shabbos is Shabbos Mevorchim, false if not (known limitation: this sensor works purely on secular days of the week and will count the upcoming Shabbos from Sunday and not Motzei Shabbos)