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lofty creek Oct 20, 2022, 8:02 PM

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FYI, with the magic of #templates-archived you can have a single automation that lists 20 entities in the same trigger, and it'll tell you which one caused the automation to start

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- service: notify.petunia
  data:
    message: "The {{ trigger.to_state.name }} window is open, you may want to close it"

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You can also use #templates-archived to walk a group and tell you which members are on (open)

gloomy shuttle Oct 20, 2022, 8:04 PM

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sound exactly what I am looking for 🙂

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{{
expand(states.binary_sensor.bad_eg, states.binary_sensor.bad_og, states.binary_sensor.esszimmer)
|selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on')
|map(attribute='name')
|join(',')
}}

lofty creek Oct 20, 2022, 8:05 PM

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Yup, and you can do that with groups

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{{ expand('group.my_exterior_doors')|selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on')|map(attribute='name')|list|join(', ') }}

gloomy shuttle Oct 20, 2022, 8:05 PM

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I did this and it works quite fine to see what windows are open, but I somehow fail to reduce it just to the last one so I can send the automation

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*send the message

lofty creek Oct 20, 2022, 8:06 PM

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The #templates-archived channel can likely help with that, you can find out the one that most recently changed state

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I used to do that, but resorted to "brute force"

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https://github.com/DubhAd/Home-AssistantConfig/blob/live/automation/platform/last_opened.yaml

gloomy shuttle Oct 20, 2022, 8:09 PM

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Oh thats really nice of you sharing this

lofty creek Oct 20, 2022, 8:12 PM

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Oh, and you can expand multiple groups in the same command

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https://github.com/DubhAd/Home-AssistantConfig/blob/live/automation/notification/telegram/command_status.yaml

gloomy shuttle Oct 20, 2022, 8:12 PM

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That is going to be step learning curve for me 🙂

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Thanks a lot @lofty creek and @midnight pumice for your time and sharing insights

lofty creek Oct 20, 2022, 8:13 PM

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I'll be honest, most of my templates are carefully stolen from posts in the #templates-archived channel, or on the forum

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There's some really smart people over there who do mind blowing stuff with templates - I'm just a hack by comparison 😄

gloomy shuttle Oct 20, 2022, 8:14 PM

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🙂 but you are sharing your knowledge and thats all that counts 🙂

#Thanks scottg4898258 for the hint I have