modern jackal
It appears to me that the .Remaining attribute of a Timer helper is always the same as the initial duration, even when the timer is running. (See screen shots, Note: I'm GMT-4, so the times do match up.)
Is this a bug or is this expected, but I'm not understanding what .Remaining is supposed to represent?
How do I go about getting that time remaining that counts down when I select the timer from the Helper tab of the Devices & services section of Settings?
plain token
It only changes when you pause the timer.
If you want to get the actual remaining time, use the finishes_at attribute
This is intended, as an attribute which changes every second isn't beneficial for your database
modern jackal
Thanks, but finishes_at gives me a fixed time. How then do I do the math to report the number of minutes returned by:
timer.finishes_at - now()
I would like to display the number of minutes remaining in a dashboard element.
vast spire
Something like:
{{ ((state_attr('timer.test_2', 'finishes_at')|as_datetime - now()).total_seconds()/60)|round(1) }}
modern jackal
something like that, but not that. LOL.
'datetime.datetime object' has no attribute 'total_seconds'
Ahhhh! it's the | as_datetime that seems to be doing it for me.
I tried to use as_datetime(timer.finishes_at), calling it as a function instead of piping through it, and that definitely wasn't working.
How do I know when to use CastFunction() vs | CastFunction?
{{ (state_attr('timer.master_bath_manual_start_timer', 'finishes_at')| as_datetime - now()) / 60 | round (1) }} is close, but gets me 0:00:05.805486 The round() doesn't seem to be pulling its weight.
short beacon
That rounds the 60, not the result of the division.
modern jackal
ah ha! I had the .total_seconds() in the wrong spot. It was inside the now().total_seconds) when it should have been after the 2nd )
Getting much closer, but still getting decimal minutes
Yup. I figured that. Tried wrapping all the math in parens, but must have missed.
I managed to get them in the right spot this time.
{{ ((state_attr('timer.master_bath_manual_start_timer', 'finishes_at')| as_datetime - now()).total_seconds() / 60) | round (0) }} is now giving me a whole number of minutes.