Templating in Time Events

[mcginnie (Paul McGinnie)]

Is it possible to use some form of templating inside the minutes or seconds fields of a time trigger?
Currently, I use something like

trigger:
platform: time
minutes: ‘/3’
seconds: 00

but I would like to control the frequency via another variable e.g. input_slider.interval, so is there a way to do something like:

trigger:
platform: time
seconds: 00
minutes: '/{{ input_slider.interval | int}}`

Is there a template function that would achieve this?

[forsquirel]

Sun event related timers

I did not find this usecase before. It took me a while to figure it out, so I would like to share my project/idea. I wanted to swith my lights on and off based on the sunset, but i wanted to be able to change the offset when this happens online via the GUI. So this is what I came up with: And the config: input_slider: auto_light_minutes: name: Minutes after sunset icon: mdi:timer initial: 30 min: 0 max: 120 step: 10 auto_light_duration: name: Duration hours …

that thread should have just about everything you’re looking for