[question] Multiple timers from Alexa? #49
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Hello! I'm not familiar with how the echo timers are created, but might something like the auto-entities card work for selecting all the timers? See #19 (comment) for an example of using the timer bar card with auto-entities. |
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I don't think so - The next_timer sensor contains the data in a "sorted_active" list |
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I'm also trying to figure this out. Its easy enough to get a list of each timer from the sorted active data Now using the timer card, I can get it to render the next timer, but not all active ones. My other question is how to pull the timerLabel and use that is the name. |
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This is the first use case I've seen for making the name configurable. You could create a template entity through Home Assistant that has the name set to the type: custom:config-template-card
variables:
TIMER: "JSON.parse(states['sensor.kitchen_echo_next_timer'].attributes.sorted_active)[0]"
entities:
- sensor.kitchen_echo_next_timer
card:
type: custom:timer-bar-card
entities:
- sensor.kitchen_echo_next_timer
name: "${TIMER[1].timerLabel}"
bar_foreground: '#eee'
bar_direction: rtl
bar_background: 'var(--mdc-theme-primary, #6200ee)'
start_time:
attribute: process_timestamp
end_time:
attribute: prior_value
bar_width: 35%
layout: full_row # hides the name and icon, but not time remaining
#text_width: 0px # hide the time remaining
guess_mode: true
filter: false
debug: trueYou might even be able to use the template card to render all the timers. Here's my attempt at setting that up. I haven't tested it, so it may need some debugging to make it work. type: custom:config-template-card
variables:
cards: |
() => {
const timers = JSON.parse(states['sensor.kitchen_echo_next_timer'].attributes.sorted_active)
return timers.map(timer => {
return {
"type": "custom:timer-bar-card"
"entities": ["sensor.kitchen_echo_next_timer"],
"name": timer[1].timerLabel,
"bar_foreground": "#eee",
"bar_direction": "rtl",
"bar_background": "var(--mdc-theme-primary, #6200ee)",
"duration": {
"fixed": timer[1].originalDurationInMillis/1000,
"units": "seconds",
},
"remain_time": {
"fixed": timer[1].remainingTime/1000,
"units": "seconds"
},
"bar_width": "35%",
"layout": "full_row",
"guess_mode": true,
"filter": false,
"debug": true
}
})
}
entities:
- sensor.kitchen_echo_next_timer
card:
type: entities
entities: "${cards()}" |
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while 
This example is using the auto-entities to list timers on Mutiple echo devices. Neither of these two examples show that there are multiple timers on a single entity. Using the untested code to use the template card to render all the timers isn';t working. I'm not sure how I can debug it to see where its breaking down. No errors in the card configuration appear and no cards are rendering. Any thoughts on how i can trace the code to see what's not working? |
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Right I forgot the name property assigns the title of the card. Instead follow these directions to rename the timer so the I'll have to look into the second block of code I wrote some more. There might be an error in the browser console, or I could be wrong that it's possible to pass an entire config in this template card. You could try editing the |
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Thanks, I got the name working right now, I didn't notice the indentation issue before either. Thanks for the debug guidance, looking in the browser console I found a missing ',' after These are coming from a single entity: however, the bar is not working, and I will still try to wrap this is an auto-entities to list all echo devices and multiple timers on each. |
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Almost there! Nice work fixing some of the issues through the browser console. I would have expected the bar to show with this configuration. If you send the output with "end_time": {
"fixed": timer[1].triggerTime
}That will be a little more accurate than using the remaining time. |
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With the debug, mode is idle I made the change to end time. There is still no bar when extracting multiple timers from a single entity. With debug turned on, it appears that time remaining, and counter are NaN, and the mode is Idle My attempts to change the mode have not worked. I appreciate you working and talking me through this. |
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Taking a look through the code, there's a subtle bug with using As for the "end_time": {
"fixed": new Date(timer[1].triggerTime).toISOString()
} |
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Hi!
Firstly - Thank you for this card - It's excellent! I've added my Echo show as a timer, and it displays the last timer I've set perfectly.
My question is what's the recommended way of showing all timers set on a specified Echo device? I have a show in the kitchen and set multiple timers when cooking - It would be great to show all of them automatically.
Thanks in advance,
Neil
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