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Countdown Timer

A timer against the clock to create timer challenges in your projects. Countdown functionality.

Authors and contributors to this community extension: CuriosVoult.

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This extension provides a timer against the clock to create timed challenges in your projects. You can set an initial time in seconds and then start the timer to count down. The extension includes actions to start or reset the timer, stop it at zero or allow negative numbers, and get the time remaining on the timer via an expression. With this extension, you will be able to easily add countdown functionality.

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Actions

Restart the countdown timer
Reset the countdown to its initial value.

Set the countdown of the clock
Set the countdown timer in seconds.

Start countdown timer
Starts the countdown from the value set previously.

Conditions

Countdown timer is in x sec
Check if the countdown timer has reached a specific time in seconds.

The countdown timer has ended
Check if the countdown timer has reached zero.

Expressions

Expression Description
CountdownTimer::InitialConfigurationValue() Get the initial setting time value of the clock.
CountdownTimer::RemainingTime() Get the remaining time of the countdown timer.

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