Good evening everybody. My first post here 
I have a motorized water ball valve, that is controlled by a Sonoff mini. The thing is that it takes ~15 seconds to open/close. That’s why I need some kind of a solution to disable/deactivate/lock a lovelace switch for 15 seconds after toggling it. Just to give enough time for motor to close the valve. After that the switch should be back to normal and can be toggled again.
Haven’t found any ideas for that, so any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
I wanted the same for my doorbell notification. See below what I put (using a timer with 10 seconds which is the duration during which I don’t want a new notification) that might help:
Timer definition in configuration:
timer:
doorbell:
name: doorbell timer
duration: 10
Automation:
- id: doorbell_rings_notification
alias: Doorbell rings notification
initial_state: true
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.0x00158d0002ca0ef1_contact
to: 'on'
condition:
condition: state
entity_id: timer.doorbell
state: 'idle'
action:
- service: timer.start
data:
entity_id: timer.doorbell
- service: notify.mobile_app_rene_s_iphone_11
data:
message: 'someone at the door'
You could probably “wrap” a template switch around it that also uses a timer as @Piggyback suggested. Maybe something like this:
timer:
valve:
duration: 15
switch:
- platform: template
switches:
valve:
value_template: "{{ is_state('switch.real_valve', 'on') }}"
turn_on:
- condition: state
entity_id: timer.valve
state: idle
- service: timer.start
entity_id: timer.valve
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.real_valve
turn_off:
- condition: state
entity_id: timer.valve
state: idle
- service: timer.start
entity_id: timer.valve
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.real_valve
Thanks. That looks pretty promising But I got some error while checking Configuration:
Invalid config for [switch.template]: expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data['switches']['turn_off']. Got [OrderedDict([('condition', 'state'), ('entity_id', 'timer.radiator_valve'), ('state', 'idle')]), OrderedDict([('service', 'timer.start'), ('entity_id', 'timer.radiator_valve')]), OrderedDict([('service', 'switch.turn_off'), ('entity_id', 'switch.sonoff_10008cf3d6')])]
expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data['switches']['turn_on']. Got [OrderedDict([('condition', 'state'), ('entity_id', 'timer.radiator_valve'), ('state', 'idle')]), OrderedDict([('service', 'timer.start'), ('entity_id', 'timer.radiator_valve')]), OrderedDict([('service', 'switch.turn_on'), ('entity_id', 'switch.sonoff_10008cf3d6')])]
required key not provided @ data['switches']['radiator_valve']['turn_off']. Got None
required key not provided @ data['switches']['radiator_valve']['turn_on']. Got None. (See ?, line ?).
Here’s what i got on my configuration.yaml:
#################################################################################
# Home heating - Radiator valve timer #
#################################################################################
timer:
radiator_valve:
duration: 15
switch:
- platform: template
switches:
radiator_valve:
value_template: "{{ is_state('switch.sonoff_10008cf3d6', 'on') }}"
turn_on:
- condition: state
entity_id: timer.radiator_valve
state: idle
- service: timer.start
entity_id: timer.radiator_valve
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.sonoff_10008cf3d6
turn_off:
- condition: state
entity_id: timer.radiator_valve
state: idle
- service: timer.start
entity_id: timer.radiator_valve
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.sonoff_10008cf3d6
I’m not a pro here. Can you help me with that?
The issue is because of incorrect indenting. Turn on and Turn off should be further indented. I tested the code on my instance and this will not give you errors:
timer:
radiator_valve:
duration: 15
switch:
- platform: template
switches:
radiator_valve:
value_template: "{{ is_state('switch.sonoff_10008cf3d6', 'on') }}"
turn_on:
- condition: state
entity_id: timer.radiator_valve
state: idle
- service: timer.start
entity_id: timer.radiator_valve
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.sonoff_10008cf3d6
turn_off:
- condition: state
entity_id: timer.radiator_valve
state: idle
- service: timer.start
entity_id: timer.radiator_valve
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.sonoff_10008cf3d6
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Just got a little deeper dive into this solution. René, you’re the man!! Worked like a charm! Exactly what I needed. Thank You.
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