Moving from Node Red

[dense ibex]

I'm considering moving some automations from Node Red to Home Assistant and one thing is confusing me.

In Node Red, I can pass a payload from an events: state node to an action node.

Essentially if a turn this thing on or off, the the entity_id called by the action node will follow suit.

How can this be mimiced in a Home Assistant automation?

[burnt elm]

With templates and this: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/templating/

Or you can use trigger IDs

[dense ibex]

OK, here's what I'm trying and I'm confused.

alias: Test Automation
description: ""
triggers:

• trigger: state
  entity_id:
  • binary_sensor.morning_light_timer
    conditions: []
    actions:
• action: light.{{trigger.to_state.state}}
  target:
  entity_id: light.workstation_light_switch
  mode: single

[burnt elm]

You're missing the 'turn_' part there

Otherwise it's fine