Cancelling an automation in WAIT block

[tom_l]

Another option is to turn the heater on with the automation, as you have it now but do not wait for 60 minutes.

Instead, write another automation that is triggered if the heater has been on for 60 minutes that turns the heater off

This has the advantage of not needing to restore the timer after a Home Assistant restart. Though the 60 minutes will begin counting again after the restart.

If you do go with the timer, here is a great post on how to restore them:

Restore active/paused timers after a restart

Notice of Deprecation Thanks to the contribution of raman325, starting from Home Assistant version 2022.4, an active or paused timer entity can be restored after a restart. Therefore the restoration technique described in this topic is no longer needed. This topic remains for historical purposes, in case someone is curious to learn more about the scripting techniques it used to restore active/paused timers. However no further support for it will be provided now that timer restoration is a nat…