Convert time in minutes

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Hi,

I wanna built a timer coutdown for a script that can be use to delay turn off a device. So, on my wallpanel I would like to display the minutes remaining before the device will turn off.

To do that, on my script, before calling the delay sequence I set a mqtt sensor that will hold the “stop hour”.
So by exemple if I call my script at 15h00 and use a timer of 10, I’ll have in my sensor 15h10.

Now, I’m trying to get the minutes between my “stop hour” and now.

{% set stoptime = strptime(states.sensor.stoptimertimer.state, "%H:%M") %}

{{ stoptime }}

{{ strptime( now().strftime("%H:%M"), "%H:%M") }}

{{ (stoptime - (strptime( now().strftime("%H:%M"), "%H:%M")))  }}

With that, I’m getting the difference in a result like this :

0:03:00

How can I “convert” this to always get an integer (3).

Thanks in advance

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I’m not sure if your method will work when crossing midnight. This method should. Then all you need to do is adjust the timestamp_custom’s format. Or you can store that whole string and parse it like the first line.

{% set Hour, Minute = states.sensor.stoptimertimer.state.split(’:’) %}
{% set seconds = Hour | int *3600 + Minute | int * 60 %}
{{ (as_timestamp(now()) + seconds) | timestamp_custom("%H:%M:%S") }}