It is also working on V2 and don’t use any settings!
# Countdown timer
With this app you can add countdown timers for Homey. With countdown timers you can for example start a timer for a certain amount of seconds when a motion-detection sensor detected motion and turn lights on. When the sensor detects motion again it sets the timer again. When the timer runs out you can turn off the lights.
No settings needed, just create a flow and start your timers. Easy and simple!
I can’t get the timers to work in V2. Should I be using the release or beta version of countdown timers?
I have flow triggered by a PIR that turns on the light and sets a timer called HallPIR to 6 seconds.
I have another flow triggered by a timer finished card but it never runs. I also tried a specific timer stopped card but still not working.
I can start the timer but I can’t create a flow based on “timer has stopped”.
As an example:
Flow 1: I have a motion sensor in one room, when someone enters the room and motion sensor is triggered I would like to start a 5 minute timer and turn on the ceiling lamp. So far so good, this works.
Flow 2: When above timer has stopped and no motion is detected I would like to turn off this ceiling lamp.
I have based the trigger on both “A specific timer has stopped” and “Any timer stopped”, condition is “motion is not detected” and action is “turn off ceiling lamp”.
Note: I have tried both with and without the “motion is not detected” as condition.
I just installed it to start migrating the timers from the “Countdown” app to prepare for migrating to Homey 2.0. Does your app support the tags (to check if a timer runs or other use cases)?
Q1) How can we check if a timer runs or have an overview of the ones running. Imho in Homey 2.0 it can only be visualized with use of tags?
Q2) In the card “a timer is empty” there is no drop down list of available timers, is this done on purpose? You will have to know all timers by memory what is hard if you use a lot of timers (believe me we will use a lot of them )
A new version with autocomplete on timer names is coming. We’re currently testing this. And this version has another cool feature. You are able to make a countdown timer visible on the ledring of your homey!!
Once of the main differences is that you can create, name and set the timer directly in the flow with Countdown timers.
With the “Countdown” application you linked to you first need to create and name the timer in the app setting, then use it in a flow.
Of course there are more differences but you need to read and compare each apps description to find out which one is best suited for you.
P.S. I currently use both of them but the main reason is that I have not had the time update the flows that are using “CountDown” yet, I started using “Countdown timers” when I updates to 2.0.
This is not a bug, its a feature. This way we clean up all unused timers on app restart. There is no need to re-create them. If a timer is started that doesnt exist it will be re-added again automagically
Jeroen i really like your app. Thanks you very much.
Would it be possible to add a card to pause a timer?
I would use that’s to keep track of the running hours of a air humidifier. So i can get a push notification when a water refill is necessary.
) How it that app compared to CountDown? 
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