Can I show the down-counting value of a Timer on the dashboard?

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Can I show the down-counting value of a Timer on the dashboard?
I seem to get only its starting value.

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Yes you can pick the ā€œentity of the timerā€ you have defined and named, hopefully more than timer. I have 15m, 8Hr for example.
Then you need to also trigger it to start when an action happens, then it will count down.

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Thanks! I think I did exactly that.
It then shows only the starting value on my dashboard. If I click on it, I can see in a new window that itā€™s running. There I can even pause it or stop it.
What I would like to see is the actual value of the timer continuously on my dashboard (without clicking on it)ā€¦

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type: entities
entities:
  - entity: timer.poolpump

This works as you descibe, just a timer counting down (if itā€™s actually ā€œrunningā€).
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Here is my timer for Charging station from my Dashboard:
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If it is not counting down, then you havenā€™t triggered it to start correctly.

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Thank you for this.
If I do exactly what you propose, I get it as desired.

I had this:

type: entity

  • entity: timer.poolpump

With this I got
ā€œActiveā€ when itā€™ was running or ā€œInactiveā€ when it stopped.

why this behaves so different, I do not understandā€¦ :frowning:

Thank you!

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Use entities not entity. Theyā€™re two different cards.

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Thx again.
Not starting the timer rightly couldnā€™t be the case: I could see it running once I clicked on itā€¦
Btw: I got a working solution from @Recte
The root cause was that my yaml worked differentlyā€¦ why? I donā€™t knowā€¦
thankyou again!

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Thx, I did!

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Try this:

:slight_smile: Works great! :slight_smile:

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I will! Thx!

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Hi @Jaapop8
You might want to set my post to ā€˜solutionā€™, so itā€™s easier to find for others that experience the same issue.

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Iā€™m obviously not very experienced in thisā€¦ Thx for the heads up!

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