Expire binding improvements?

[rossko57]

@xsherlock

And I’m surprised to find out that there is no easy way to have an timer that can have remaining time accessible/editable as the value to display/modify in rules.

There are ways, but certainly not easy

Design Pattern: Recursive Timers

(I think there are still a few typos in above) I’ve been playing with this recursive timer, to combine it with some countdown ideas stolen from here My objective, to create a countdown timer for e.g. motion activated lights. Must be able to reschedule for that purpose. Cannot use “expire binding” methods as timer durations are variable depending on context – home/away etc. Ordinary so far, but I also wanted to be able to inspect remaining time from rules for smarter behaviour - e.g. as …