How to target a timer running on a Google nest speaker? (As a new timer ID is generated each time)

[Sambuccashake]

Hello!

How do I get around the fact that the timer ID is generated upon creation of the timer itself?

Long story short, any created automation (which holds whatever timer_ID I could dig up at the time) will becomes irrelevant the next time a timer is started as the timer_id attribute will be changed into something else.

Which leads to:

This error originated from a custom integration.

Logger: custom_components.google_home
Source: custom_components/google_home/sensor.py:305
Integration: Google Home (documentation, issues)
First occurred: January 31, 2023 at 17:31:37 (18 occurrences)
Last logged: 11:06:31

Incorrect ID format! Please provide a valid timer ID. See services tab for more info.

Do you have any suggestion on how to catch them "dynamically"?

Thanks in advance!

[KapJI]

You can use templates (same can be done with timers):

{% set alarms = state_attr("sensor.bedroom_speaker_alarms", "alarms") %}
Alarm ID: {{ "Not set" if not alarms else alarms[0]["alarm_id"] }} 

[Sambuccashake]

Thanks for helping out! I've never dabbled with templates so will have to read up on it.

But not really sure how it will solve my predicament.

{% set timers = state_attr("sensor.koket_timers", "timer") %} Timer ID: {{ "Not set" if not timers else timers[0]["timer_id"] }}

My automation is pretty straight forward and if I could just get past that timer_ID (And just turn any timer off on the device) it would be done but that seems mandatory info.

`alias: Kill timer
description: ""
trigger:

• device_id: 3e4571e4038a0a51243c40977a96af65
  domain: zha
  platform: device
  type: remote_button_short_press
  subtype: button
  condition: []
  action:
• service: google_home.delete_timer
  data:
  entity_id: sensor.koket_timers
  timer_id: timer/63e46722-0000-287b-86a1-14223bb8f172
  mode: single`