Set scheduled charging

The Set scheduled charging action tells your Tesla vehicle to start charging at a specific time of day. This is the same scheduled charging feature you can set on the car’s screen, controlled from Home Assistant.

Use it to line up charging with cheaper electricity rates, for example starting a charge in the middle of the night when off-peak pricing begins.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To set scheduled charging from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. From the search box, search for and select Teslemetry: Set scheduled charging.
6. Select the Vehicle to schedule.
7. Turn Enable on to schedule charging, or off to clear the schedule.
8. Set the Time at which charging should start.
9. Select Save.

Options in the UI

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required.

In YAML, refer to this action as teslemetry.set_scheduled_charging. A basic example looks like this:

action: teslemetry.set_scheduled_charging
data:
  device_id: 0d462c0c4c0b064b1a91cdbd1ffcbd31
  enable: true
  time: "06:00"

This schedules the vehicle to start charging at 6:00 in the morning.

Options in YAML

Good to know

• When you enable scheduled charging, you must provide a time.

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Developer tools > Actions, search for this action, fill in the fields, and select Perform action. You see what happens on your actual entitiesAn 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] without writing a line of YAML.

Still stuck?

The Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

Related actions

These actions work well alongside this one:

• Set scheduled departure: Sets a departure time so the vehicle schedules charging and preconditioning.

• Add charge schedule: Adds or modifies a charging schedule for the vehicle.

• Navigate to coordinates: Sets the vehicle’s navigation to a specific latitude and longitude.