Dashboard Timer

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I have done a bit of digging and ive been looking for the possibility to have a timer on the home screen that would act as a trigger for a rule, perhaps flash lights, make a sound. This oculd be used for cooking reminders etc.
I am aware that you could make a rule for 60 second timer etc but I would prefer to have the ability to input any amount of econds for the timer from the dashboard itself!

Otherwise, keep up the good work!

[josh]

Great idea - thanks for the suggestion!

Which platform do you have connected (eg. Hubitat or SmartThings)? There are some ways you could probably achieve this with virtual devices.

[DerekG_Stokes]

I also think this is a good Idea…any new news?

[josh]

Are you using SmartThings or Hubitat?

@Armand_Welsh put together a cool timer driver for Hubitat. If I understand correctly, he sets the time on the device and then starts it counting down. He then has a rule setup that when the countdown completes, it can run whatever actions he wants.

Countdown Tile Script

This sounds like a great enhancement to my Timer Driver for Hubitat. It still needs more work, to not overload the sharptools API servers, but if you are on SmartThings, feel free to modify it, or if you are Hubitat, feel free to use this. Updates are being applied daily as I work out the final changes / enhancements. Timer Device

[DerekG_Stokes]

Hey Josh, thanks for the reply! I currently using SmartThings. I will have to check this out. Thank you for your time!

[Armand_Welsh]

@Armand_Welsh put together a cool timer driver for Hubitat. If I understand correctly, he sets the time on the device and then starts it counting down. He then has a rule setup that when the countdown completes, it can run whatever actions he wants.

Thanks for the mention. This is basically what the timer does. It is not as efficient as I would like. I still need to update it to use a schedule for the timedOut() event, and the interval timers just for status updates with improved logic. But for HE it does not seem to impact the system at all. I also do not allow the timer to send out too aggressive of status updates, as we don’t want to ramp up our API calls to sharptools just for a timer… So I use a graduated timer scale to minimize updates. Again – I need to finalize it, but feel free to play with it.