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prime ingot Jan 26, 2024, 7:05 PM

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automation:
  - id: Pre-set points card scanner
    alias: "Pre-set points card"
    mode: restart
    # Hide warnings when triggered while in delay.
    # max_exceeded: silent
    trigger:
      platform: event
      event_type: tag_scanned
    condition:
      - "{{ is_state('switch.points_group_switches', 'on') }}"
    action:
      - service: shell_command.manage_cards
        data:
          args: "--info {{trigger.event.data.tag_id}}"
        response_variable: get_info_response
      - variables:
          UsersCount_json: "{{ (get_info_response['stdout'] | from_json or 'x' | default({})).user |count }}"
          CardCount_json: "{{ (get_info_response['stdout'] | from_json or 'x' | default({})).card |count }}"
          User: "{{ (get_info_response['stdout'] | from_json or 'x' | default({})).user | default('') }}"
          Card: "{{ (get_info_response['stdout'] | from_json or 'x' | default({})).card | default('') }}"
          Modify: "{{ (get_info_response['stdout'] | default('{modify_user: {user_info:{}}}')|from_json).modify_user.user_info}}"
          User_Name: "{{ (User or Modify).user_name }}"
          user_id: "{{ (User or Modify).user_id }}"
          user_points: "{{ (User or Modify).user_points }}"
          activation_status: "{{ (User or Modify).activation_status }}"
          Card_Points: "{{ Card.points }}"
          Card_Status: "{{ Card.status }}"

and the error Error: UndefinedError: 'dict object' has no attribute 'modify_user'
I see the error in "traces"
It is stopping me from having anything else further in the automation...

fair glen Jan 26, 2024, 7:06 PM

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make a variable that does the operation

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variables:
  response: >
    {{ get_info_response['stdout'] | from_json }}

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then every time you want to access something in it, use .get

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and if it fails, use

prime ingot Jan 26, 2024, 7:08 PM

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k

fair glen Jan 26, 2024, 7:08 PM

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variables:
  response: >
    {{ get_info_response['stdout'] | from_json or {} }}

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then {{ response.get('whatever key', {}) }}

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     - variables:
          response: "{{ get_info_response['stdout'] | from_json or {} }}"
          user: "{{ response.get('user', []) }}"
          UsersCount_json: "{{ user | count }}"
          card: "{{ response.get('card', []) }}"
          CardCount_json: "{{ card | count }}"
          modify: "{{ response.get('modify_user', {}) }}"
          modify_user: "{{ modify.get('user_info', {}) }}"

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etc

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notice how much easier it is to follow and you aren't copying/pasting the same crap over and over again

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also, "{{ (User or Modify).user_name }}" seems wrong because the way your code is written, it seems that user will be a list. If it's not, why are you counting the key value pairs for user?

prime ingot Jan 26, 2024, 7:17 PM

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users is a list, I want the count for other parts of the automation.

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I think I did something wrong:
Template variable error: 'modify_user' is undefined when rendering '{{modify_user.get('user_info', {})}}'

      - variables:
          response: "{{ get_info_response['stdout'] | from_json or {} }}"
          UsersCount_json: "{{response.get('user', {})|count}}"
          CardCount_json: "{{response.get('card', {})|count}}"
          Card: "{{response.get('card', {})}}"
          User: "{{response.get('user', {})}}"
          Modify_user: "{{response.get('modify_user', {})}}"
          Modify: "{{modify_user.get('user_info', {})}}"

here is a sample of the possible json responses.

{
  "users": [
    {
      "user_id": "8243",
      "user_name": "William",
      "user_points": "123",
      "activation_status": "active",
      "tags": [
        "987654"
      ]
    },
    {
      "user_id": "243",
      "user_name": "Alise",
      "user_points": "611",
      "activation_status": "active",
      "tags": [
        "123456"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

{
  "modify_user": {
    "action": "Modify User",
    "user_info": {
      "user_id": "8243",
      "user_name": "William",
      "user_points": "333",
      "activation_status": "active",
      "tags": [
        "987654"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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or exceptions for failures.

fair glen Jan 26, 2024, 7:44 PM

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Thanks but that still doesn't really help because you have a list of users vs a modify_user

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do you want to use the modify_user if the list is empty?

prime ingot Jan 26, 2024, 7:46 PM

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I am confusing myself too.
I think I got this step working.
I don't want to use anything that is empty, i just want a generic script/automation to call the shell command and set any variables i will need.

fair glen Jan 26, 2024, 7:47 PM

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so if the user list is empty, you want to use the modify user?

prime ingot Jan 26, 2024, 7:52 PM

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i get either a users list of users like in the first json or a response that a user was modified.
In both scenarios I want to know the user_name and the user_points.
There is also a cards list of cards similar to users list

fair glen Jan 26, 2024, 7:52 PM

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what's the user name of 7 users?

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hopefully you're starting to see the holes in this plan. Or maybe you can share the endgoal with the data.

prime ingot Jan 26, 2024, 7:58 PM

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the endgoal is to
A. scan a tag and lookup in a json file the users name and points and update a input_number based on the username and userpoints.
B. scan a tag and then scan a new tag (points_card) that has pre-set points stored on it, and pass that info to the shell_command in the format --use <tag> <user> and get the response in form of modify_user json and update points like in A.

fair glen Jan 26, 2024, 8:00 PM

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So this is an all in 1 automation?

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doing both things?

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I still don't see what the list is going to do. are you planning on running a shell command for each user in the list?

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and what are the possible responses from the shell command?

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is it just the 2 and no response (empty string)

prime ingot Jan 28, 2024, 5:25 AM

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i've been thinking about your advice (see the holes in this plan) and i am trying to figure out myself what I want to happen exactly in small pieces first and then if possible put into all-in-one script.
here is why I wanted the list of users to do. (so far its working)

  update_points:
    alias: "read points from file and set input numbers"
    sequence:
      - service: shell_command.manage_cards
        data:
          args: "--list_users all"
        response_variable: manage_points_response
      - choose:
          - conditions: "{{ manage_points_response is defined }}"
            sequence:
              - variables:
                  Users: "{{ (manage_points_response['stdout'] | from_json | default({})).users}}"
                  Count_json: "{{ Users |count}}"
              - repeat:
                  count: "{{ Count_json }}"
                  sequence:
                    - variables:
                        user_entity_id: "{{ Users[repeat.index - 1].entity_id }}"
                        user_points: "{{ Users[repeat.index - 1].user_points | int }}"
                    - choose:
                        - conditions: "{{ states(user_entity_id)!= 'unknown' }}"
                          sequence:
                            - service: input_number.set_value
                              data:
                                entity_id: "{{ user_entity_id }}"
                                value: "{{ user_points }}"

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obviously if the amount of users gets to be too much i will need to do this on the shell side of things, but there shouldn't be more than 10 more likely 3-5.

fair glen Jan 29, 2024, 11:26 AM

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You should use for_each instead of count, and use if then if you only are doing 1 thing to cut down on the yaml.

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