How do you change the duration of a flutter animation on didUpdateWidget?

I want to have a timer updated on demand but I'm not sure how to go about doing this. I want to check that certain conditions are met when the widget is updated before changing the duration. So far, I've tried playing around with the "didUpdateWidget" function but I get an single ticker error. When I change the mixin to TickerProviderStateMixin, the duration doesn't update.

class _ProgressBarState extends State<ProgressBar>
    with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin {

  int _duration;
  int _position;
  bool _isPaused;

  Animation animation;
  AnimationController animationController;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _duration = widget.duration;
    _position = widget.position;
    _isPaused = widget.isPaused;
    animationController = AnimationController(
    duration: Duration(milliseconds: _duration), vsync: this);
    animation = Tween(begin: 0.0, end: 1.0).animate(animationController);
  }

  @override
    void didUpdateWidget(ProgressBar oldWidget) {
      // TODO: implement didUpdateWidget
      setState(() {
        _duration = widget.duration;
        _position = widget.position;
        _isPaused = widget.isPaused;
      });

      updateController(oldWidget);
      super.didUpdateWidget(oldWidget);
    }


  void updateController(ProgressBar oldWidget){
    if(oldWidget.duration != _duration){
      animationController.dispose();
      animationController = AnimationController(duration: Duration(milliseconds: _duration), vsync:this);
    }
    if(_isPaused){
      animationController.stop();
    } else{
        animationController.forward(from: _position/_duration);
      }
  }
//...
}