Set scheduled departure

The Set scheduled departure action tells your Tesla vehicle when you plan to leave. The car uses this to finish charging and to warm up or cool down the cabin so it’s ready by your departure time. You can also let it shift charging into off-peak hours.

Use it to have the car comfortable and fully charged for your morning commute, while charging during cheaper off-peak periods overnight.

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 a scheduled departure 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 departure.
6. Select the Vehicle to schedule.
7. Turn Enable on to schedule a departure, or off to clear the schedule.
8. Optional: turn on Preconditioning enabled and set the Departure time so the cabin is ready in time.
9. Optional: turn on Off-peak charging enabled and set the End off-peak time to shift charging into cheaper hours.
10. 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_departure. A basic example looks like this:

action: teslemetry.set_scheduled_departure
data:
  device_id: 0d462c0c4c0b064b1a91cdbd1ffcbd31
  enable: true
  preconditioning_enabled: true
  departure_time: "07:00"

This schedules a 7:00 departure and preconditions the cabin so it’s ready in time.

Options in YAML

Good to know

• When you enable preconditioning, you must provide a departure time.
• When you enable off-peak charging, you must provide an end off-peak 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 charging: Sets a time at which the vehicle should start charging.

• Add precondition schedule: Adds or modifies a preconditioning schedule for the vehicle.

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