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inner wind
I don't have enough code to answer that. can you put the BP up somewhere and let me see it?
sharp isleBOT
pallid sapphire
Sure, the whole yaml for the blueprint?
inner wind
in one of those places, yes. If anything is secret in variables blank that out
inner wind
One immediate comment, didn't look at anything yet, but the commented out stuff could all go into the description and be visable to the user. The comments won't be passed in with the BP and few people will see it. The description accepts markdown.
pallid sapphire
Oh!! OK that's nifty
I read a few guides online, watched a couple youtube videos, and was just doing a search through some of the official docs but didn't stop and read ALL of them, to see things like that re: description 🙂
inner wind
There is no !input helper_time_delay. which one(s) are being a problem?
pallid sapphire
``` seconds: !input helper_p1_shot_time_seconds
``` is what it seems ...
It's this one sorry
I'd just renamed it in the other channel for simplicities sake
Well it could be either of those delays really 🤔
No it couldn't, sorry, one is seconds, the other is minutes for something else, it's that one
One thing, you are selecting this as an entity:
helper_irrigation_current_cycle: and using it as a target. Those are different things. I believe you need a target elector for that.
Just saying things as I see them.
pallid sapphire
Ohhhhh
inner wind
There may be more of thiose.
pallid sapphire
Probably is 😅😅
So I shouldn't be using that to choose the Counter Helper that I've pre-created?
inner wind
Not certain exactly about the delay, but I think you can use the duration selector there. That might work better.
https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/blueprint/selectors/#duration-selector
pallid sapphire
Coz in the creation of the blueprint it seems to be OK with it?
https://i.imgur.com/l9DgjYL.png
pallid sapphire
Not certain exactly about the delay, but I think you can use the duration select...
Is that something that can be adjusted with like a helper though? Coz rather than having to go in and edit an automation on the regular, this is the kind of thing where people would likely have a helper on display in Lovelace and want to easily amend it, especially during the first few runthroughs of this automation
inner wind
Look in the pins in the BP channel about the difference between a target and an entity. I think sometimes you luck out but one is a list and the other is a dictionary so weird things happen.
pallid sapphire
Oh, OK will do, thankyou 🙂
inner wind
I haven't really used the form of delay you have there, so if you are staying with that I don't know what that is.
In BP's I use the duration because if they want to change they can change it tn the automation as well as anywhere else, or I use the form where if you just give it a number, it will assume that is seconds and delay that number of ceconds. Like this:
https://github.com/SirGoodenough/HA_Blueprints/blob/master/Automations/keypad_5_button_cipher_to_turn_on_something.yaml
pallid sapphire
Yep, but that delay needs to be able to be easily edited from Lovelace without much effort rather than having to modify the automation 🙂