How to show timestamp as 'minutes remaining' on entity card?

Configuration
1

Hello! I hope this isn’t too dumb of a question but I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to figure this out for the past couple of hours. Any help would be most appreciated.

I have a Samsung Smartthings washer/dryer and both are connected to HA. There are entities for estimated completion time generated as a timestamp:

completion_time_info

The auto-generated lovelace frontend shows this estimated completion time as “in XX minutes”:

lovelace_dryer

However, when I try to add this information to my custom lovelace frontend as an entity card, it just displays the timestamp like so:

custom_lovelace_timestamp

How can I get this card to show the estimated completion time as ‘in XX minutes’ like the auto-generated lovelace frontend? This is important because I’m in the process of making this jumble of entities useful on mobile for my wife :smiley:

Thanks for any help you can provide!

2

Here you go (format):

1 Like
3

Ahhh thank you, I was using the ‘entity’ card not the ‘entities’ card.

4

So, I’m struggling with the same, but I need to convert it to minutes in a template (to use it in the HomeAppliance card: https://github.com/ShunichiSan/HomeAssistantApplianceCard).

I’m trying to try it in the Developers Tools, but I get the error:
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: ‘NoneType’ and ‘float’

My code is:

{{ as_timestamp(states.sensor.droger_remaining_program_time.state) | timestamp_custom(' %H:%M ') }}
{{ (states.sensor.time.state) }}

{% set currenttime = (states.sensor.time.state) %}
{% set dryerfinished = (as_timestamp(states.sensor.droger_remaining_program_time.state) | timestamp_custom(' %H:%M ')) %}

{{ (((as_timestamp(strptime(dryerfinished, "%H:%M"))) - as_timestamp(strptime(currenttime, "%H:%M") )) /60) | int}}

So the first line is giving me the exact time it will be finished: 15:06.
If I try to add it in a variable “dryerfinished” I get the error I posted.

I’m a beginner in the use of Home Assistant, so I hope someone can help me out!
Thanks in advance!

5

Hi Cafun,

Sorry but I don’t know if I can help. That card does look neat, but all I did was change which card I was using (entities not entity) and that solved my issue. I was looking for a timestamp of estimated completion that was being reported by SmartThings, it seems like your use case is a little different.

6

Hi peetipablo,

Indeed it is a little different, although I hope someone can help me out.
But thank you for your reaction :slight_smile:

7

Is there already a solution ? I have no clue

8

I use below code to create a new sensor. Then i use that sensor to lovelace
Found original code here

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      washing_machine_remaining_time:
        friendly_name: "Washing Machine Remaing Time"
        value_template: >-
          {% set timestamp = as_timestamp(states('sensor.dryer_remaining_program_time')) | int %}
          {%- macro pluralize(value, phrase) %}

          {{- '{} {}{}'.format(value, phrase, end) if value > 0 else '' }}
          {%- endmacro %}
          {% if timestamp %}
            {% set time = timestamp -now().timestamp() %}
              {% if time | regex_search("^-") == True %}
                End
              {% else %}
            {% set seconds = pluralize((time|int % 60) // 1, 'second') %}
            {% set minutes = pluralize((time|int % 3600) // 60) %}
            {% set hours = pluralize((time|int % 86400) // 3600,':') %}
            {% set days = pluralize(time|int // 86400, 'day') %}
            {% set tlist = [ days, hours, minutes, seconds ] | select('!=', '') | list %}
              {% set phrase = tlist[:-1] | join('')%}
            {% endif %}
             {{ phrase }}
          {% else %}
          End
          {% endif %}
        icon_template: mdi:calendar-clock
9

Hi, I have found something that seems to work for me. I am a novice when it comes to coding, so there is probably a better way of solving this:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:          
      vaskemaskin_gjenst_tid:
        friendly_name: "Gjenstående tid"
        value_template: >
          {{ relative_time(now() - timedelta( seconds = as_timestamp(states('sensor.vaskemaskin_washer_completion_time')) - as_timestamp(now())))  }}
10

Is there any way to show this in an Entity card, since I only want a single entity on that card?

11

I’m using it for a time remaining card like this:

type: entities
entities:
  - type: custom:template-entity-row
    name: Remaining Time
    state: "{{ relative_time(now() - timedelta( seconds = as_timestamp(states('input_datetime.auto_off_time')) - as_timestamp(now()))) }}"

I actually have it in a conditional card so it doesnt show when the timer isn’t enabled, but i just put the standalone entities card there for you.

image
image