Timers?

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How would you like to activate the timer? Dashboard? Alexa? Physical button press? Other?

One option is to use a dedicated app, like Auto Off or Auto_Off. Both are available in Hubitat Package Manager, at least the last I knew they both were.

[RELEASE] Auto_Off - Another choice to automatically turn off devices after set amount of time on

Auto Off A Hubitat Parent/Child app that turns off your devices after they have been on some time. This App is a "clone and update" of MForander's excellent Auto Off app. Details The app allows you to create child apps to individually select switches you want to be turned off automatically. Import App Link Parent Code Child Code There are two notable differences between this pair of Apps and the original App from MForander: It's a parent/Child version, where each monitored switch (or dimmer)…

[RELEASE] Auto Off - Automatically turn off devices after set amount of time on

Auto Off Hubitat app that turns off your devices after they have been on some time. Details The app allows you to select switches you want to be turned off automatically. Each switch is tracked individually but they all share the auto-off time setting. If you need different auto-off times for different switches, just add another instance of this app. Use Case I have a few lights in the house that always seem to be left on. Sometimes the bathroom lights are left on for a few hours and someti…

Another option would be to use a virtual switch and a rule to turn off "X" minutes after it turns on. This would be fairly flexible and would work by voice command as well as dashboards.

Depending upon the time you need, virtual switches also can turn themselves off at a few predetermined intervals, you could just simply turn that virtual switch on, and it turns itself off. The choices are fairly limited and short, I think the longest you can get is 10 seconds? But that might be fine for some specific cases.