How do I show text sensors in HA based on number of timers

ESPHome
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I am using a diy voice assisant and I am able to set timers with it. These timers are running on the esp32 device. For now I have a text_sensor in HA under the esphome device that show the remaining time of the timers. This far all good. But I can start 2, 3 or more timers at ounce and I would like to track their progress in HA. The tricky part is that I don’t know how many timers there will be running so I was thinking to only display a test_sensor in HA for each active timers or none if there are no timers running. Is there a way of doing this? And if so could you give me some pointers to look into. Thanks

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Post your config…

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It is available here https://github.com/AshaiRey/ESP-Assistant
Including 3D print files

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So you want us to go hunt for your timers in your github repository? And then print a case? :wink: Looks like a nice project, thanks for sharing, but it would be better to create a topic for that so people can find it.

The auto entities card can use filters which entities you want to show. I use it a lot for running timers, lights that are on, long running automations (which I try to avoid), open windows (need I go on :wink: )

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No I do not.
I have solved my issue already and after that is created the the github to share

But I didn’t notice that I started the question here.
Thanks for pointing me to the entities card

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I was kidding a bit. It really is a nice project to share. If you didn’t create a topic for it yet in the Share your projects category, It is appreciated if you do.

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Im confused on these timers. Are these just timers being set up in HA from voice assistant?

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Well that is the question here.
At first they run on the ESP and can be seen there. But when VA restarts you lost track of then and can’t be seen anymore. I wasn’t able to find them in HA also. But when the timer that was set ends the events in the ESP triggered anyway. So my educated guess is that the are still running in the background on the ESP.

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Hhmm… Thats interesting and I might have to play around with them. Ive been wanting to make something with a countdown timer being displayed and its not been as simple as I first thought.

With them adding support for dateTime recently, I thought for sure this would now be a simple and straightforward process to make a timer with this new dateTime platform but, it isnt and honestly I dont know wth benefits adding dateTime is supposed to add tbat wasnt possible already with the older Time platform…IDK.

Your project is interesting though. Thanks for sharing it though.