So i need help. i want to come away from Alexa completely. i have everything working great my smart home is almost perfect with one massive BUT timers for cooking!!! on Alexa you all know we can ask it to get a timer for say 20 minutes then after 20 minutes an alarm sounds. I’m trying to get this wo…

At least in part this depends on the voice assistant satellite. If you are using the Voice Preview Edition or some of the various spinoffs (I use the Seeed Studio reSpeaker XVF3800 with formatBCE’s software), the timer end noise is pretty load and accompanied by lights. I have no idea what it look…

Do you have any speakers in your kitchen? If you have a trigger to hang it on you could send a sound to the nearest media_player - no need to do everything in the voice assistant.

Timer is the weakest part of the builtin toolset currently. It is on thier planned roadmap to update. But I dot know the timing. So unfortunately my answer is YES it is that hard rn. If you want that you’re going to have to write it yourself. That said both Thyraz and I have written timer tools f…

You may also want to take a look at this thread if you are using English for you voice assistants: [image] Voice reminders for Assist, with the time worked out in Jinja rather than by an LLM Share your Projects! Assist has no reminder intent. Timers are relati…

I use a custom sentence and intent, which works very well - it does rely on sending responses to a separate media_player, though. There’s a write up here .

Timers and Alarms

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Didgeridrew August 20, 2026, 3:24pm 5

You may also want to take a look at this thread if you are using English for you voice assistants: