@Niggich said: My Echo know I want to start a Timer but it’s asking for how long. Great, now that you’ve confirmed MQTT is working, the next step is to add the Home Assistant automation. alias: MagicMirror kitchen timer started 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 I think that will work. I don’t know if it needs to be escaped or not.