How do I start a Homeassistant timer from appdaemon, specifying the timeout value?

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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I found that you can use call_service(). But I can’t figure out how to specify the duration in that call.

self.call_service(“timer/start”, entity_id = “timer.name_here”)

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See if this thread points you in the right direction.
[AppDaemon] How to call a service (Example) - Third party integrations / AppDaemon - Home Assistant Community

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In case anyone else is looking for this, using the kw argument duration works.

self.call_service(“timer/start”, entity_id = “timer.name_here”, duration = <seconds>)

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You are welcome!

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Not necessary. Sorry, but your input was not quite useful.

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Lol. It would have been. If you didn’t look at it before you found your answer, that means you finally searched!

Don’t worry. You will not be burdened by my replies in the future!

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Actually no. I just decided to pass in duration as a kw argument to see if it would work. But the link you provided had nothing related to invoking timers. Why even do this? When you have no idea about what is being asked. Just move on.