MMM-KitchenTimer - Touch-friendly countdown timer

Niggich

@bwente That’s it. Thank you. Is there a way to change the language to german?

bwente

@Niggich Update the module and it will use you language setting in your overall config.

Niggich

@bwente thank you. I did already and it works.

Niggich

Hey @bwente I have an Idea, but I don’t know if this is possible. I have the Screen with touch in my kitchen and also an Alexa and the old Echo Wall Clock. Maybe it’s possible to start the the Alexa Timer when I hit the Timer on my Touchscreen because I don’t have speakers at my Touchscreen.

bwente

@Niggich it’s a good idea, but unfortunately it can’t directly start a normal Alexa timer.

One option is to pair your Screen with the Echo over Bluetooth. That would give you the alarm sound through the Echo, but it wouldn’t activate the timer indicator on the Echo Wall Clock.

Another possibility may be installing alexa-remote on the Mirror or use HA. The module could notify it when a timer starts, and it could then ask the Echo to set the corresponding timer. That should also activate the Wall Clock. maybe?

Niggich

@bwente Thank you for your answer. HA it’s a good idea, but how I tell HA I start the Timer on the mirror? I also have an iobroker. Maybe this helps…

bwente

@Niggich

Yes. Since you use Home Assistant, MagicMirror can publish an MQTT message when the timer starts, and HA can start a matching Alexa timer on the Echo paired with the Wall Clock.

The catch is they are separate timers, not truly synced. Starting and canceling can be synced, but pausing the MagicMirror timer will not pause Alexa.

Niggich

@bwente

Ok, I try to configure MMM-MQTTbridge to connect the mirror to my HA. I think the connection from Mirror to HA is working but I don’t know how to configure the module to Send Notifications to my HA. Sorry…

bwente

@Niggich On the HA side you would listen for the timer topic.

alias: Start Echo timer from MagicMirror
triggers:
  - trigger: mqtt
    topic: magicmirror/kitchen-timer/started

actions:
  - action: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.kitchen_echo
    data:
      media_content_type: custom
      media_content_id: >-
        set a timer for
        {{ trigger.payload_json.remainingSeconds | int }}
        seconds

Niggich

@bwente Ok, thank you. So I don’t need to configure something at the MMM-MQTTbridge just in HA?

edit: I try the whole afternoon, but I don’t know how to do. I also try it with MMM-HomeAssistant.