Timer entity for a timer set via Voice PE?

[fierce estuary]

I set a timer this morning to time my lunch and it dawned on me, we don't have a timer entity for when a timer is asked for using the assistant. It would be pretty cool to see something like this so we can then add a visual on the dashboard so we can get a sense of time remaining, not that the ring on it doesn't show it, but I like seeing it countdown too! 🙂

[radiant nova]

to my knowledge, its on the todo list. its not there because there is not a good way to do it yet. some stuff in the future will allow for it to be done in a good way then it will be done 😛

[fierce estuary]

Cool! I wonder though if we could hack something in via ESPHome Builder. I will play around and see what I can figure out.

[lusty patrol]

In Koala satellite I just have sensor for next timer time left. But it's also bad thing to do.
The timers in HA don't fit, because HA cannot create and delete instances dynamically.

[fierce estuary]

I was able to ask the assistant how much time was left via my phone via the app and using the text option. I'm now just wondering how that's done so I can make an automation maybe to set the timer and go from there. With some assistance from a LLM maybe.

[lusty patrol]

You can ask it on same device you've set the timer. Because timers are device-scoped. HA knows nothing about them.

[fierce estuary]

I can ask the inbuilt assistant in Home Assisant (hotkey 'a' ) and was able to type in the question of "How much time is left on the timer" and it told me exaclty how many seconds and minutes were left. This sort of tells me that it's somehwere in the system that the OS knows. I know it may be using the timer function in Home Assistant so tapping into that would be nice.

[lusty patrol]

Where did you set it?

Which device did you say "start timer for ..." on?

[fierce estuary]

I set the timer with Home Assistant Voice PE.

[lusty patrol]

And read it from phone later? Must be some custom setup maybe?

[radiant nova]

its likely the llm helping out in some way. if from the chat history it knows when stuff was set and how long it will go for then it can calculate the answer