Effective use of Timers in Rules

[11187 (Микола Лука)]

Hi friends!
I would like to visualize the created timer to know how much is left until the process is complete. I have OpenHAB3.
Thanks to everyone who responds!

[rossko57]

@11187

I would like to visualize the created timer

You cannot do that directly with createTimer().

You might get some ideas from here

Timer progress/remaining in sitemap

Hey! I am using timers in my rules for a lot of things. In most cases it would be nice to have these in the sitemap. Let’s take this as an example: I have one rule turning the corridor light on when I’m entering the apartment (let’s say at 18:00). A timer of 15 minutes will turn it off again (18:15), quite handy. In the sitemap it would make things more transparent if the timed action was indicated. What I can do: set and display some String “timer running”, that’s easy. set and display som…

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[SOLVED] Getting timer remaining time

I want to show how much time before a timer runc, but as long as I see it is impossigle (Determine Timer Elapsed or Remaining) has something changed in these nearly 4 years?

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

You forgot your design pattern. Design Pattern : Expire Binding based Countdown timer

Note that I’ve a JavaScript library implementation for this DP now too. https://github.com/rkoshak/openhab-rules-tools/tree/main/countdown_timer