time based auto-toggle behaviour for more info dialog for toggle-able items (light, fan, valve, cover, lock etc)

[rolfvreijdenberger]

What type of request is this?

Enhancement to existing card/feature

Existing card or feature name

{"Card" => "Light"}

Describe the enhancement

I'd like to be able to generically set a timer to toggle an action (basically reverse it) when the timer finishes.

The more info dialog might be a candidate for 'toggleable' types, but there are more places that this is applicable.
It could work for covers, fans, lights, locks, sirens, valves.

The way the dialog could be triggered might be from the toggle itself (eg on long press) but there are probably many options and I'm sure there are many better ideas for how to reach this functionality in a dialog.
When the dialog is there, you can set a relative (or absolute) timer after which the toggle (or auto off) fires (must survive restart).

toggling might be hard and a timed auto-off feature might be easier. This is especially so for lights: if you want to toggle a light after a couple of minutes when you turn it off, with which settings should it turn on (color/brightness)?
Other considerations are how to do this for groups (light groups for example).

examples for usage:

• I turn on a light but want to auto turn off after x minutes (garage work with extra light for 30 minutes)
• open a valve but want to close it after x hours (flush the fish tank for x minutes)
• turn on a heater and turn off after x minutes (kids are cold and want some extra heat in their room)
• turn on a fan and turn off after x minutes (shower, bedroom cooling at night)
• turn off a light, but turn it on again after x time

Use cases

When my kids turns on the heater (via a smart plug, that is exposed as a fan via a helper (change device type of a switch)) they often forgets to turn it off when they leave the room/house.

I could automate this (check every x time and if time heater is on > threshold then turn off), but this is cumbersome and means I have to do manual automations for a lot of use cases (could use labels for categories, but still).

When they can turn it on and automatically configure it to turn off after 1 hour, it basically becomes a fire and forget action that every user in the household can automate directly from the GUI.

Visual examples

Anything else?

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