How to best represent timers/countdowns?

[chairstacker]

Your automation.yaml being empty might actually be an issue - I recall following a discussion here where linking to an empty automation file cause issues, so somebody created a dummy automation in the yaml-file:

[SOLVED]Automation in package not working

Hey guys, I’m trying to convert most of my config from separate sensors/automations/switches folders to a more appropriate ‘packages’ system. So I am only using parts of my ‘proven to work’ configurations. Setting up my sensors, input booleans, customizations, etc in the package folder is working fine. But every time I also try to include some automations in the package file Home Assistant goes bonkers! When I run the automations seperate in their normal ‘automations folder’, everything works a…