I’m trying to figure out the real differences between these to apps before I use them too extensively. I hope someone who have tested them both could help me fill out the blanks. Countdown by Ralf van Dooren are simple but effective. You have to create the Timer variable in the app and you can then…

I was wondering the same. I did find that with Jeroen’s app you can’t set random timers (yet) and I do use that with Ralf’s app.

I’ve updated my original post. I’ve been testing some more, and I think I’m starting to grasp most of the differences. The big selling point for me for Jerome Bos’s app is that it cleans it self up. No huge list with old unused Timer names. I just had to really figure out how the New/Update function…

My personal experience was that the countdown timer works reliable and is transparent. You can look if the timer is working and how many seconds are left. I experiented some problens with the countdown timer and was not able to see what the problem was. This is ofcourse my own fault in my flows, but…

[image] RoyWissenburg: Your settings up a flow with a timer, and dont have to look at it again. So why a huge list with old unused timers??? You start off with some tests and have 3-4 timer variables of various names. You start doing the real thing and have many timers, but then you find out …

How do you pause a timer with the countdown timers app, as mentioned in the first post? I did find the pause function in the app configuration but there is no card ‘kaartje’ tot use it in a flow.

I can not find such functionality my self. That’s a shame :confused:

Can anyone put up examples of flows with “countdown timers” (english). I just can’t seem to grasp how to get them to work. I can’t figure out how to make the timers stop devices after the countdown. Obviously I’m missing something very obvious :frowning:

Here is a nice example of timers used in a flow.

So i. This example it requires 2 flows. One to start the timer and one when it finishes. Anyone have a simple movement/timer/lights?

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Rocodamelshekima June 9, 2019, 5:14am 12

It’s under the search button, or here.

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