Run_in time remaining extract value

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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Hi,

Could you please advide a method to extract the remaining time left in seconds after executing self.timer1= self.run_in (…)

self.log([self.timer1]) returns the following:
[‘0688c936ea0340de9d9604ce67234965’]
I’m guessing this is the handlers ID??

Thanks,

Rob.

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It’s not the handler’s id, it’s the timer id: it allows you to cancel it.
I’d say the easiest way to do that is to compute the end date, use run_at instead of run_in and store the date along with the timer ID.

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Thanks Ten, You got me thinking! All i need is to create a time stamp with self.datetime() at the time of executing the run_in (or run_at) then I can work out the difference from there.
This might be a split second accurate but fine for what I need. but thanks for seeding the idea!