Question: Progressbar not refreshing?

[MarcE85]

Hey,

I've got the Bar Card working bit alexa timers. But right now the bar is only refreshing if i press F5. Is this by design or did i something wrong?

type: custom:timer-bar-card
entities:
  - sensor.echo_buro_next_timer
bar_foreground: '#eee'
bar_direction: rtl
bar_background: 'var(--mdc-theme-primary, #6200ee)'
start_time:
  attribute: process_timestamp
end_time:
  attribute: prior_value
bar_width: 35%
guess_mode: true
filter: false
debug: false

Regards Marc

[rianadon]

Definitely not by design.

I don't have any ideas what might be causing this at the moment. If you set debug to true do you see anything within the debug window changing with time, or is everything frozen?

[MarcE85]

Hey, the debug only changes if i start or stop the timer. The rest is frozen.

[xuko]

trying to adapt to alexa timers too.
this timer has the time off date as entity state. when there is no timer active it has unavailable state.
Could be great to add a property to get the active_state from an atrribute too. in this case "status". or the entity state itself

left some example here of entity attributes if could help

recurrence: Never Repeat
process_timestamp: 2021-10-14T21:57:44.259225+02:00
prior_value: 2021-10-14T22:00:24+02:00
total_active: 1
total_all: 2
sorted_active: [["", {"alarmLabel": null, "alarmTime": 0, "assigner": null, "automationId": null, "createdDate": 1634240425158, "deferredAtTime": null, "deliveryType": null, "deviceName": null, "deviceSerialNumber": "", "deviceType": "", "extensibleAttribute": null, "geoLocationTriggerData": null, "id": "", "lastOccurrenceTimeInMilli": 0, "lastUpdatedDate": 0, "loopCount": null, "mrmGroupContext": null, "musicAlarmId": null, "musicEntity": null, "notificationIndex": "", "originalDate": null, "originalDurationInMillis": 1200000, "originalTime": null, "personProfile": null, "provider": null, "rRuleData": null, "recurrenceEligibility": false, "recurringPattern": null, "remainingTime": 160000.0, "reminderAppLabel": null, "reminderLabel": null, "reminderSubLabel": null, "skillInfo": null, "snoozedToTime": null, "sound": {"displayName": "Simple Timer", "folder": null, "id": "system_alerts_melodic_02", "isChildDirected": false, "numAssets": 0, "pricing": null, "providerId": "ECHO", "sampleUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/deeappservice.prod.notificationtones/system_alerts_melodic_02.mp3", "sampleVideoUrl": null}, "status": "ON", "targetPersonProfiles": null, "timeZoneId": null, "timerLabel": "Pizza", "tmwNotificationProperties": null, "triggerTime": 1634241625145, "type": "Timer", "version": "3"}]]
sorted_all: [["", {"alarmLabel": null, "alarmTime": 0, "assigner": null, "automationId": null, "createdDate": 1634239406577, "deferredAtTime": null, "deliveryType": null, "deviceName": null, "deviceSerialNumber": "", "deviceType": "", "extensibleAttribute": null, "geoLocationTriggerData": null, "id": "", "lastOccurrenceTimeInMilli": 0, "lastUpdatedDate": 0, "loopCount": null, "mrmGroupContext": null, "musicAlarmId": null, "musicEntity": null, "notificationIndex": "", "originalDate": null, "originalDurationInMillis": 900000, "originalTime": null, "personProfile": null, "provider": null, "rRuleData": null, "recurrenceEligibility": false, "recurringPattern": null, "remainingTime": 0, "reminderAppLabel": null, "reminderLabel": null, "reminderSubLabel": null, "skillInfo": null, "snoozedToTime": null, "sound": {"displayName": "Simple Timer", "folder": null, "id": "system_alerts_melodic_02", "isChildDirected": false, "numAssets": 0, "pricing": null, "providerId": "ECHO", "sampleUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/deeappservice.prod.notificationtones/system_alerts_melodic_02.mp3", "sampleVideoUrl": null}, "status": "OFF", "targetPersonProfiles": null, "timeZoneId": null, "timerLabel": null, "tmwNotificationProperties": null, "triggerTime": 1634240306566, "type": "Timer", "version": "4"}], ["", {"alarmLabel": null, "alarmTime": 0, "assigner": null, "automationId": null, "createdDate": 1634240425158, "deferredAtTime": null, "deliveryType": null, "deviceName": null, "deviceSerialNumber": "", "deviceType": "", "extensibleAttribute": null, "geoLocationTriggerData": null, "id": "", "lastOccurrenceTimeInMilli": 0, "lastUpdatedDate": 0, "loopCount": null, "mrmGroupContext": null, "musicAlarmId": null, "musicEntity": null, "notificationIndex": "", "originalDate": null, "originalDurationInMillis": 1200000, "originalTime": null, "personProfile": null, "provider": null, "rRuleData": null, "recurrenceEligibility": false, "recurringPattern": null, "remainingTime": 160000.0, "reminderAppLabel": null, "reminderLabel": null, "reminderSubLabel": null, "skillInfo": null, "snoozedToTime": null, "sound": {"displayName": "Simple Timer", "folder": null, "id": "system_alerts_melodic_02", "isChildDirected": false, "numAssets": 0, "pricing": null, "providerId": "ECHO", "sampleUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/deeappservice.prod.notificationtones/system_alerts_melodic_02.mp3", "sampleVideoUrl": null}, "status": "ON", "targetPersonProfiles": null, "timeZoneId": null, "timerLabel": null, "tmwNotificationProperties": null, "triggerTime": 1634241625145, "type": "Timer", "version": "3"}]]
status: ON
dismissed: 2021-10-14T21:39:42.534676+02:00
friendly_name: Salón next Timer
icon: mdi:timer-outline
device_class: timestamp

[rianadon]

I'm waiting to find a case where guess_mode doesn't solve the problem before I add a way to set active_state from an attribute.

I see quite a few bugs in the codebase dealing with guess_mode now. I'll make a release with those fixed, then hopefully these entities will work.

[rianadon]

v1.14 fixes these bugs in guess_mode. @MarcE85 let me know if that fixes the problem for you!

And @xuko I'd suggest adding guess_mode to your config and seeing if that gives you good behavior.

[MarcE85]

v1.14 fixes these bugs in guess_mode. @MarcE85 let me know if that fixes the problem for you!

And @xuko I'd suggest adding guess_mode to your config and seeing if that gives you good behavior.

Yes that fixed the problem! Thank you very much for your work!

[rianadon]

You're very welcome! I'm going to close this issue now that the problem is fixed.

@xuko please open a new issue if you can't get your Alexa timer working with guess_mode!