Support "turn on" for a time period

[mhalano]

Describe the feature

I would like that voice assistant to understand something like "turn on <device> for <period of time>".

Example commands

"Turn on AC for 2 hours"
"turn on AC during 2 hours"

Use cases

I like to turn on the AC when I'm going to sleep, but to avoid costs keeping turn on all night, I do something like "turn on AC for 2/3 hours" on Google Assistant.

Anything else?

The idea is processing this locally, like the usual "turn on" command is, but adding "for/during" and a period of time to create a timer to do the inverse process, turn off, after the mentioned time period.

[wildwestminer]

You could do this with an automation with a listen for a sentence spoken. I have this same scenario with my house front lights. They automatically go off after 15 minutes. The amount of time would be a variable.

[mhalano]

@wildwestminer Do you have any code? I tried to create an automation, but I need to create an intent script that does two things: turn on the device, and then set a timer to turn it off. The problem is that I can only add one single action. That's is a limitation of the intent script itself that doesn't accept an array, just a map for action.

[wildwestminer]

I have this code, but it is coded for 15 minutes, which of course you can change. As far as a voice command to change the minutes to X minutes, voice response with reply with how many minutes it heard, and what device as a confirmation, I'm still working on as for some reason my AI wants to take over and run it on its own thus not triggering the automation. This might get you going. If interested with the 2nd automation I mentioned, I'll send it to you if I get it working reliably
voice timer for front lights.txt
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[mhalano]

Thanks, but the goal of my idea is specify the time in the command itself. I could do that with an intent script if intent scripts supported more than one action at time. Since your script isn't an intent script, it doesn't have such limitation.