Love it. Spouse approval is so necessary!
Feel free to post your automation in here just in case anyone is looking for exactly that.
Im sure this could be cleaned up a bit but here’s my automation. It sends a notification to my wife and i as well as plays a sound over our kitchen speakers. This is for whole minute timers which is our only use case currently. Will start/stop/pause/restart a single timer.
alias: Auto Timer
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: conversation
command:
- (cancel|stop|end|pause|restart) timer
- (start|set) (a) timer (to|for) {timer_time} minute[s]
id: command
- platform: homeassistant
event: start
id: ha_restart
- platform: event
event_type: timer.cancelled
id: cancelled
- platform: event
event_type: timer.finished
id: finished
condition: []
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- command
sequence:
- variables:
command: "{{ trigger.sentence.split(' ')[0] | lower }}"
tenbelow:
ten: 10
nine: 9
eight: 8
seven: 7
six: 6
five: 5
four: 4
three: 3
two: 2
one: 1
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ command in ('start', 'set') }}"
sequence:
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ trigger.slots.timer_time | trim | lower in tenbelow
}}
then:
- service: timer.start
data:
duration: "{{ tenbelow[trigger.slots.timer_time] * 60 }}"
target:
entity_id: timer.timer1
else:
- service: timer.start
data:
duration: "{{ trigger.slots.timer_time | int(0) * 60 }}"
target:
entity_id: timer.timer1
- service: tts.speak
metadata: {}
data:
cache: true
media_player_entity_id: media_player.the_kitchen
message: "{{trigger.slots.timer_time}} minute timer started."
target:
entity_id: tts.piper
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ command in ('cancel', 'stop', 'end', 'pause', 'restart') }}"
sequence:
- variables:
response_command: |-
{%- if command in ('cancel', 'stop', 'end') -%}
cancel
{%- elif command == 'pause' -%}
pause
{%- elif command == 'restart' -%}
start
{%- endif -%}
response_word: |-
{%- if command in ('cancel', 'stop', 'end') -%}
cancelled
{%- elif command == 'pause' -%}
paused
{%- elif command == 'restart' -%}
restarted
{%- endif -%}
enabled: true
- service: timer.{{ response_command }}
target:
entity_id: timer.timer1
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ command == 'cancel' }}"
then:
- service: timer.stop
target:
entity_id: timer.timer1
- service: tts.speak
metadata: {}
data:
cache: true
media_player_entity_id: media_player.the_kitchen
message: >-
Timer {{ response_word }}.
target:
entity_id: tts.piper
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- finished
sequence:
- service: media_player.play_media
target:
entity_id: media_player.the_kitchen
data:
media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/timer.mp3
media_content_type: audio/mpeg
metadata:
title: timer.mp3
thumbnail: null
media_class: music
children_media_class: null
navigateIds:
- {}
- media_content_type: app
media_content_id: media-source://media_source
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 1
milliseconds: 0
- service: media_player.media_pause
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: media_player.the_kitchen
- service: tts.speak
metadata: {}
data:
cache: false
media_player_entity_id: media_player.the_kitchen
message: Timer Finished.
target:
entity_id: tts.piper
enabled: true
- service: tts.speak
metadata: {}
data:
cache: false
media_player_entity_id: media_player.master_bedroom
message: Timer Finished.
target:
entity_id: tts.piper
enabled: true
- service: notify.parents
data:
message: Timer Finished
title: Timer!
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- cancelled
sequence:
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 1
milliseconds: 0
- service: tts.speak
metadata: {}
data:
cache: false
media_player_entity_id: media_player.the_kitchen
message: Timer Cancelled.
target:
entity_id: tts.piper
- service: tts.speak
metadata: {}
data:
cache: false
media_player_entity_id: media_player.master_bedroom
message: Timer Cancelled.
target:
entity_id: tts.piper
- service: notify.parents
data:
message: Timer Cancelled
title: Timer!
mode: single
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Thanks. I am sure it will help some folks down the road!
You certainly have some clever stuff in there 
Great job!
And just like that i screwed the automation up and cant figure out what the heck is going on. I’ll need to look at this when my kids arent being terrorists.
Something in here is wrong:
duration: >-
{{ tenbelow[(trigger.slots.timer_time | trim | lower)] |int * 60 }}
Added a default to int and then it just outputted “5,5,5,5,5…” 60 times. Somethings going on with the dictionary lookup. Should be an integer but it seems as though its still being converted to a string.
Take the quotes off of your setting of tenbelow. it is a string right now.
Nice catch. I ended up redoing it a bit and was able to just use one variable up a few levels. I’ll update the code here in a second after i do a few more tests.
Edit: Updated!
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