Creating an automation based on timer

ESPHome
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I am trying to replicate functionality I had with alexa. When a timer completes/finishes it sends a notification to my smart clock (lametric).
this used to work well in alexa, and lametric has an integration with home assistant - and I can sent test messages to the clock from home assistant - so I figured this would be easy.

Alas despite seeing mentions of timer events in automations, I cannot get an automation working based on timer.

I tried timer.finished and timer.complete, before timer.*
I’ve been to dev tools and listened to * events whilst i started a short timer and let it go off. I see no events that seem to represent this.

I use home assistant voice preview which uses esphome.

Is there really no way to achieve this?

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I know next to nothing about Voice Assistant, but there is an on_timer_finished: config item in the docs. Is that relevant?

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I appreciate the suggestion, I went on a hunt for that term and saw some posts about it, but I don’t seem to be able to use on_timer_finished in any automations i try to create.
if i go to esphome>device>voice pe>create automation
i dont see anything about timers there either> I then found this, so I have a horrible feeling home assistant isnt as capable as alexa here - which would be terribly disappointing.

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Maybe this post helps

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Unfortunately not, it’s one of the first links I found too.
Although I got a reply on Make "Timer Finished" an external switch · Issue #318 · esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe · GitHub
and it sounds like indeed it’s not imposible without taking control of the voice pa device and blocking automatic firmware updates etc.
Not sure i’m willing to go that far, but at least if anyone else finds this they can explore that avenue.