Here's this week's new Home Assistant Tutorial video.
How To LOWER your GAS COSTS DRASTICALLY with Home Assistant!
Watch here: https://youtu.be/X9v25EQwAzg
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Nice tutorial! You used a date time helper. I did something similar using a timer helper instead.
You set the timer for your duration, then every time you turn on/off the boiler you ‘reset’ the timer. You can then have a trigger in your automation for when the timer reaches zero. Same solution but without the need to work with templates and other ‘codish’ things.
@Bluesheep does it survive a reboot of Home Assistant? I didn't test it, but I think it does since some time ago.
It does! They added it a while ago, you need to tick the restore check box when you create it and it will survive reboots. It’s very clever.
Yes, as long as you use the restore option, if a timer were to finish while Home Assistant is offline, when it starts up again the event will fire and any automations listening for the event will be triggered. Timers are incredibly powerful.
Hi there! The links in your text lead away from the user's instance, here are fixed links that stay on each user's instance: !homeassistant@lemmy.world
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