I have installed several Shelly switches and often use the auto_off or auto_on timer function. This allows a switch to be activated or deactivated directly in the Shelly after a defined time.
It would be great if such a timer could also be queried in HA and used for automations or display on dashboards.
The API should be able to return the corresponding values such as timer_duration and timer_remaining.
Shelly API
I would also love to be able to set these auto_on / auto_off timers and have access to read out the status data like timer_started, timer_duration and timer_remaining from within HA.
I have used multiple shelly 1 for my autoamtic garden watering. And there you really should use “auto off” timers to prevent that the garden is under water when some command isn’t send.
This can also be used to specify the behaviour on connection loss.