Timer Helper Restore

paulybeebe · December 12, 2023, 1:53pm

I have set up my first timer helper and it works great. The problem I have is that the “Restore?” option always unticks.

If I go in and edit the helper, tick the restore box and click update, it looks like it has saved but if I go out and in again, it is unticked. This means the timers are stopping when I restart HA.

Clicking restore, then click update:

Go back in and it is blank…

Is anyone else seeing this?

tom_l · December 12, 2023, 3:26pm

Yeah it has been reported as an issue:

github.com/home-assistant/core

Cannot set the "restore" parameter to "true" for the Timer helper

opened 11:42AM - 16 Oct 23 UTC

stanol

integration: timer

### The problem I enable "restore" when I create a Timer helper, but this optio…n is not saved. The same behavior when I try to modify an existing Timer helper. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2023.10.3 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Container ### Integration causing the issue Timer ### Link to integration documentation on our website https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/timer/ ### Diagnostics information _No response_ ### Example YAML snippet _No response_ ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? _No response_ ### Additional information _No response_

tom_l · December 12, 2023, 3:27pm

Please don’t reply “me too” just thumb up the first post to show you have the issue too

rakso · July 15, 2024, 5:52pm

I’ve made a comment under issue #94908:

I found that in order to have the timer set correctly (with restore set to true), all I have to do is

Create a new helper of type timer
Check restore (do not change the default time)
Create it
Now open this entity for updating (restore is unchecked)
Check the restore and set the correct time (in my case I had the time 1439:58:49 hours - and this workaround did not work xD, so I had to create the timer with the default value and then change it (20mins was OK).
Save it - done! Now the timer should work even after a restart.

(PS There was also a case where I set the timer to a certain value, started it and then changed the value. After that I could start and stop the timer, but it always used the old time - restarting HA helped).