How To Use Timers To Build Reliable Automations in Home Assistant

In quite some cases you might want to trigger a certain action after a specific time interval. For instance, turning off the lights after there has been no motion for 5 minutes. This can be done in various ways in Home Assistant, but in most cases, this fails as soon as Home Assistant gets restarted during that time interval. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can set up timers in Home Assistant that will keep working even when Home Assistant gets restarted.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:07 Create a Timer Helper
00:02:38 States of a Timer
00:03:30 Let's create the automation
00:08:33 Let's test the automation
00:09:36 Note: There is an error in the documentation of the Timers

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