Dishwasher runtime based on state change?

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Hi Community,
i recently build an automation, which introduced a “Dishwasher status” based on its power consumption.

The Automation is split in 4 different parts, to represent each state of the current cylce.
To keep track of the dishwasher cycle, I utilized a input_select helper, which has the following 4 states:

- idle
- running
- cleaning
- finished

a template sensor is derived from this input_select, to keep track of the changes.
It works pretty well:

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Now i want to archieve to keep track of the runtime of each cycle, but i cant figure out how?

My idea is to utilize the last_changed attribute of the sensor, to keep track of the changes.
Start: Switch idle -> running
End: Switch running -> finished

Subtract these two timestamps to get the runtime.

Automations
idle:

alias: Dishwasher Idle
description: ""
triggers:
  - type: power
    device_id: 0370e39c6053c1454a80f9cfae8b4895
    entity_id: af61253b10feaf366e6318d6da69bfe9
    domain: sensor
    trigger: device
    below: 1
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 10
      seconds: 0
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: input_select.dishwasher_status
    state: Finished
actions:
  - action: input_select.select_option
    metadata: {}
    data:
      option: Idle
    target:
      entity_id: input_select.dishwasher_status
mode: single

running:

alias: Dishwasher Running
description: ""
triggers:
  - type: power
    device_id: 0370e39c6053c1454a80f9cfae8b4895
    entity_id: af61253b10feaf366e6318d6da69bfe9
    domain: sensor
    trigger: device
    above: 10
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 10
    below: 100
conditions:
  - condition: or
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: input_select.dishwasher_status
        state: Idle
      - condition: state
        entity_id: input_select.dishwasher_status
        state: Cleaning
actions:
  - action: input_select.select_option
    metadata: {}
    data:
      option: Running
    target:
      entity_id: input_select.dishwasher_status
mode: single

cleaning:

alias: Dishwasher Cleaning
description: ""
triggers:
  - type: power
    device_id: 0370e39c6053c1454a80f9cfae8b4895
    entity_id: af61253b10feaf366e6318d6da69bfe9
    domain: sensor
    trigger: device
    above: 1500
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 10
conditions:
  - condition: state
    state: Running
    entity_id: input_select.dishwasher_status
actions:
  - action: input_select.select_option
    metadata: {}
    data:
      option: Cleaning
    target:
      entity_id: input_select.dishwasher_status
mode: single

finished:

alias: Dishwasher finished
description: ""
triggers:
  - type: power
    device_id: 0370e39c6053c1454a80f9cfae8b4895
    entity_id: af61253b10feaf366e6318d6da69bfe9
    domain: sensor
    trigger: device
    above: 2
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 2
      seconds: 0
    below: 10
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: input_select.dishwasher_status
    state: Running
actions:
  - action: input_select.select_option
    metadata: {}
    data:
      option: Finished
    target:
      entity_id: input_select.dishwasher_status
  - action: counter.increment
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: counter.dishwasher_cycles
  - action: counter.decrement
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: counter.dishwasher_pods
mode: single
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Just make a template binary_sensor w/ on/off. Then when the sensor goes off from on, you can calc the runtime in 1 go… if you even need to at that point.

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