Not fully sure how to make an Entity that closes the Timer and makes it a Sleep Timer

[Tiitto]

Can someone please explain the documentation further for me? I'm fairly new to this kind of integration.

What I am looking for, is to have a Timer with On/Off switch, that starts the timer and when you switch it Off, it automatically creates an entry to Baby Buddy with a Sleep timer, as by default it just deletes the timer after Switching Off

[kguy18]

Yeah this one took me a minute to figure out. You have to make a start timer and call the service babybuddy.start_timer and leave the start field blank so it defaults to "now" and you can optionally add a name to the timer to keep track of it in Baby Buddy. To end the timer and turn it into a sleep time you make a different service call to babybuddy.add_sleep

Here is my automation.yaml that I have for the start a sleep timer, I built an ESPHome button box so we can log Baby Buddy events at night without our phones.

alias: "Baby Buddy Logger: Sleep Start Blue Button"
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: esphome.bblogger.keypad_blue
    event_data:
      title: single_click
action:
  - service: babybuddy.start_timer
    data:
      name: Sleep
    target:
      entity_id: switch.your_baby_name
      device_id: z2t1ba0b2f789dvg6c53e7ea7dd82e32 #Specific to your baby ID generated from home assistant (I just put a random string here as an example - this is NOT the ID from Baby Buddy)

Here is my automation.yaml to stop the timer and log it as sleep:

alias: "Baby Buddy Logger: Sleep Stop Blue Button"
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: esphome.bblogger.keypad_blue
    event_data:
      title: long_click
  - platform: event
    event_type: esphome.bblogger.keypad_blue
    event_data:
      title: hold
action:
  - service: babybuddy.add_sleep
    data:
      timer: true #This pulls in the current timer and ends the time when the service is called
      notes: From Changing Table
    target:
      entity_id: switch.your_baby_name

Hopefully this all makes sense. You will need two different calls to have it start and stop a timer. If you start the timer from the Home Assistant integration you can then create an automation to stop the timer using a different button. To make sure you don't accidentally delete the timers (as you described) I would just create a custom button to call these two automations. Hopefully that helps!

[Tiitto]

@kguy18 Oh my God! Thank you! You made it so simple! :D Got it to work with ease with those instructions! SO many thank YOU's! Finally something automated that the wife appreciates :D