Pretty simple: WTH can’t we see timers set by voice within HA?
I’d love to set a timer and then be able to watch it countdown (numbers and not percentage of a ring) on a tablet in the kitchen while cooking. Extra points for showing multiple timers and the names of the timers.
Yes! Timers integration is still missing! WTH!!
I wish we could set timers with voice or in dashboard. It could be a dedicated icon in side panel.
Example:
Because HA is all about entities registry - which kinda doesn’t work with dynamic nomber of timers, set on voice device.
And even after this is solved and bound - it’s more like device entities… So every satellite should support that.
There is already a roadmap item for timers.
Currently they store them on each individual device (I have no idea who made that call I’m sure it made sense to them at the time) but it certainly looks like they know it’s busted. From what I can tell there is already some kind of plan to move them to something that is callable centrally, saw it while I was reading other voice stuff - if I find the item on git I’ll post it below.
Also blocks any alarms - needs the central timers first.
Timers seem to only exist on the satellite device. I want to be able to set them with an automation.
E.g. I want to be able to add a custom voice command that sets a timer, but I don’t seem to be able to.
There is a way to do this using pyscript which can get, create and delete timers.
Even though I use this, I would love to see support for this natively on Home Assistant.
Spook integration can create on-the-fly arbitrary timers which exist as core entities and which can optionally persist to survive a restart.
It can of course delete them too
Yes! My household has been phasing out Google Home (and Nest hubs) in favor of Home Assistant, but the timer experience on the Nest Hub is currently difficult to replicate with Home Assistant.
I’d love to be able to display any running timers in a room on the pixel clock in that same room, for example, but it’s currently pretty difficult to do. I could also picture having a dashboard on a display that automatically shows running timers for the house, or just the room, or just a certain device—or having the lights in the kitchen pulse while a timer is going off (good for accessibility or just when I’m wearing headphones!). And it’d be nice to be able to check the Home Assistant app on my phone when I’ve stepped way from the room the timer is running in to check up on its progress.