Parse duration to minutes/seconds

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I want to parse a duration string (00:00:00) to minutes/seconds.
I know I can split by ‘:’ char and multiple by the correct units but I was hoping there is something easier

2

Where is the duration string coming from. Internally time is in Unix time, which is easily manipulated.

3

Getting the timer remaining time

4

It looks like the timer component doesn’t kick out Unix format time, so strptime(), as_timestamp() etc don’t work on it. You’re left using strip. Fortunately, the format is consistent so it should work OK.

Created a timer test like this:

timer:
  test:
    duration: '01:23:45'

Here are some example templates:

example 1

{{ states.timer.test }}

result

<template state timer.test=idle; duration=1:23:45, remaining=1:23:45 @ 2019-01-18T16:06:40.797499-05:00>

example 2

{{ state_attr('timer.test', 'duration') }}

result

1:23:45

example 3

{{ state_attr('timer.test', 'duration').split(':')[0] }}
{{ state_attr('timer.test', 'duration').split(':')[1] }}
{{ state_attr('timer.test', 'duration').split(':')[2] }}

result

1
23
45

5

Yes that’s pretty close to what I ended up with:

{% set Hour, Minute, Seconds = remaining.split(‘:’) %}

I thought maybe there was a builtin method for that

Thank you!

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