Show how long a switch was on

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Hello,

how can I display the time how long a switch was in the state on

2

Use the secondary info option in many cards.

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You can use the History Stats integration to create a sensor that monitors the switch and records how long the switch’s state is on (minutes/hours/days). You can then display the History Stats sensor in the UI.

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So many ways to do things with HA. I use a template sensor to see how long since my HVAC has been either running or not running. Simply compares the time now to the time a sensor was last_changed and formats to my liking.

    6900_kitchen_last_changed:
      value_template: >
        {% set elapsed = (as_timestamp(states('sensor.date_time').replace(',','')) - as_timestamp(states.sensor['6900_kitchen_hvac_action'].last_changed| default(0)) | int ) %}
        {% set days = (elapsed / 86400) | int %}
        {% set hours= ((elapsed  % 86400) / 3600) | int %}
        {% set mins = ((elapsed  % 3600) / 60) | int %}
        {% set secs = elapsed | int % 60 %}
        {% if days > 0 %} {{days}}d {%if hours < 10 %}0{%endif%}{{hours}}:{%if mins< 10 %}0{%endif%}{{mins}}
        {% elif hours > 0 %} {% if hours < 10 %}0{%endif%}{{hours}}:{%if mins< 10 %}0{%endif%}{{mins}}
        {% elif mins > 0 %} {{mins}}m
        {% else %} {{secs}}s {% endif %}
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I solved it that way:

  - platform: history_stats
    name: heater-on-time
    entity_id: binary_sensor.heater-state
    state: 'on'
    type: time
    start: '{{ now().replace(month=1, day=1, hour=0, minute=0, second=0) }}'
    end: '{{ now() }}'

This solution displays the time since 01.01. of the current day

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I’m glad to hear that the use of History Stats helped solve the problem.

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history_stats unfortunately has a very coarse resolution - 0.01h (100th of an hour) is the smallest interval it can measure and that is 36 seconds.

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I would need help calculating the brushing time based on the status of a binary_sensor of the toothbrush.
Any suggestions on how to achieve that?
Thanks in advance.