Resume timers after reboot

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Moved to a separate topic:

[DEPRECATED] ~~How to make active timers survive a restart~~

NOTE This post is now deprecated and I am no longer supporting its code. It is replaced by a new approach that doesn’t use a python_script and employs script enhancements that were introduced since this post was first created in November 2019. Please refer to the new version presented here:

Deprecated post.

<a name="bugfix-1-2" class="anchor" href="#bugfix-1-2"></a>BugFix 1: 2020-06-07 The first automation failed to restore timers whose duration…