Adding Delay to Custom Components

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I’m finally getting around to my first custom component, which has been a bit daunting, and have a question.

In my system I have a need to turn on a switch and then wait for between 1 and 3 minutes to turn on a second switch. I know I can add standard Python waits into the code but it seems like this is suboptimal since it would leave the script in a hung state while it waits.

What is the prescribed best case for doing this kind of thing?

Something like this:

await self._hass.services.async_call(
  "switch", "turn_on", {"entity_id": self._switch_entity}
)

... wait for 1 to 3 minute(s)

await self._hass.services.async_call(
  "switch", "turn_on", {"entity_id": self._second_switch_entity}
)

In Py I have several ways to delay, but for example:

threading.Event().wait(60)