Current state of easy time-of-day/day-of-week automations?

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Most documentation or guides on scheduling I can find are from 2023 or earlier... I am looking for latest best practices / recommendations for user-friendly scheduling to move more tasks out of bespoke apps (e.g. Kasa Smart) and into Home Assistant. The challenge I am facing is that bespoke apps make schdeuling VERY easy - pick a plug or a group of plugs, set times and days for them to turn on and off... I have not found anything as spouse-friendly in HA so far.

I see the official Schedule integration, but find it hard to believe the best solution would be Yaml only and only used by ~9% of active installs?

I've also found the HACS scheduler-component and scheduler-card - these seem like decent solutions, but it's not clear how "best practice" they are as guides differ on them (and are often rather old) and I've seen some random discussions about them not playing well with other automations?

TL;DR
What's the recommended way to enable easy (spouse/kid-friendly) configuration of time-based scheduling like "turn this socket or light or group of sockets and lights on or off at this time on this day of the week"?

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You can make a schedule from the UI.

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To make this request concrete, are there any docs/examples/blueprints I could use to set up a non-poweruser (e.g. not requiring yaml edits to change) way to:

• Group a set of zigbee plugs used for holiday lights
• Initially turn them on slightly before sunset
• turn them off after X hours
• allow tweaking of the schedule as well as manual on/off by non-powerusers

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There's no simple schedule system for non-ha-users

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Just to follow up for others with similar interest, so far I've gone with

• the HACS scheduler-component
• the related scheduler-card
  I'm not sure why the only response so far has been "There's no simple schedule system for non-ha-users" as this turned out to be quite simple... the setup takes some understanding, but modification after setup is very straightforward...

Here's what the holiday lights schedule looks like: