Bounce Switch On A Timer

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Open your Home Assistant instance and show the blueprint import dialog with a specific blueprint pre-filled.

I found myself repeating the same automation a few times, made a Blueprint for it, and I guess there’s no harm in sharing it.

For this Blueprint to work, you need to create a Timer helper with whatever timer you want to put on the switch — at which point if you turn a light or plug on, it will turn off when the timer triggers (if it wasn’t already turned off.)

I use this for air fresheners and lights alike, just with different timers.

blueprint:
  name: Switch Bounce On A Timer
  domain: automation
  input:
    switch_entity:
      name: "Switch"
      selector:
        entity:
          filter:
            - domain: switch
            - domain: light
    timer_entity:
      name: "Timer"
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: timer

mode: single

variables:
  switch_entity: !input switch_entity
  timer_entity: !input timer_entity

trigger:
  - id: switch_on
    platform: state
    entity_id: !input switch_entity
    to: "on"
  - id: switch_off
    platform: state
    entity_id: !input switch_entity
    to: "off"
  - id: timer_trigger
    platform: event
    event_type: timer.finished
    event_data:
      entity_id: !input timer_entity

action:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: 'switch_on'
        sequence:
          - service: timer.start
            target:
              entity_id: !input timer_entity
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: 'switch_off'
        sequence:
          - service: timer.cancel
            target:
              entity_id: !input timer_entity
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: 'timer_trigger'
        sequence:
          - service: switch.turn_off
            target:
              entity_id: !input switch_entity
          - service: light.turn_off
            target:
              entity_id: !input switch_entity
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Thank you very much, works very well, a question; how can a add a call service when the timer is finished, as I use it for my yogurt maker

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Could you add -domain: input_boolean to the selection filter? I edited my local version of the blueprint and it works as expected.

There might be a better way to do this (?) But I’ve got a ‘software’ switch (an input_boolean helper) on a dashboard that I want to turn off after a set time (timer helper).