Creating timer outside of configuration file

Configuration
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Can you create timers outside of the config file?

I leverage folders for my integrations and point to them in my config file like this:

timer: !include_dir_merge_list timers/

So I created one for timers and dropped a yaml file inside and created a timer within the yaml file but it does not create a timer.

2

Share your timer config.

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sprinkler_qr_timer_zone10:
    name: Sprinkler Timer Zone 10
    restore: true
4

Timers aren’t a list, they are a map (dictionary)

Use !include_dir_merge_named

timer: !include_dir_merge_named timers/

Lists have dashes before each entry.

5

That did it. I did not realize that the references worked in that manner. I was looking at it differently, thx.