How to use toggles and helps for conditions in a script? | Home Assistant | Page 1

thorn seal Jan 17, 2025, 8:28 PM

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All I’m trying to do is have a script, that accepts an toggle as an input, and has a condition that if that toggle is on do x if it’s off do y, so in my script I have an entity field called “maintain_light_state” and an if statement that looks like this picture but it is saying I can do this? Any ideas why??

oblique blaze Jan 17, 2025, 8:36 PM

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You want to test for the Entity ...the states are off or on as seen here. In your case, it would be something like
"entity_id: input_boolean.maintain_light_state"

peak rapids Jan 17, 2025, 8:36 PM

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That image is pretty hard to read. Could you either do a screen capture, or click the 3 dots at the top right, select edit in YAML and copy the text for posting here?

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What happens if you go to the search on a dashboard and search for "maintain_light_state"?

It looks like you're missing the domain for "maintain_light_state". It should be an input_boolean, or a binary_sensor, or... something that looks like "foo.maintain_light_state"

thorn seal Jan 17, 2025, 9:05 PM

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Hang on i think i explained this poorly...

Theres 2 things at play here, a script and an automation. My goal is to always invoke this script for my lighting needs, so this script accepts 3 inputs, a light group, a maintain brightness toggle, and a update light state. Ignore the update lights state one cause its used for something different: Here is what this script accepts: and what it does with them, how come green works but red doesnt.

To be clear im passing the entity in.

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peak rapids Jan 17, 2025, 9:16 PM

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I am pretty sure it's not able to evaluate your template to get maintain_light_state

Is it being set by your script? If so, I think you're gonna need that response_variable and you'll need to put it in a response variable from your script.

Seeing your YAML would be helpful. The screenshots don't have all the context needed.

thorn seal Jan 17, 2025, 9:56 PM

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sequence:

if:
- condition: state
  entity_id: input_boolean.homealone
  state: "on"
  then:
- if:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: "{{ maintain_light_state }}"
    state: "on"
  - condition: template
    value_template: Maintain Light State
    then:
  - action: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data:
    transition: |
    {{ states('input_number.light_transition_speed') | int }}
    target:
    entity_id: "{{ light_group }}"
    enabled: true
    else:
  - if:
    - condition: template
      value_template: "{{ update_light_temp }}"
      then:
    - action: light.turn_on
      metadata: {}
      data:
      kelvin: |
      {{ states('input_number.lighttemp') | int }}
      transition: |
      {{ states('input_number.light_transition_speed') | int }}
      target:
      entity_id: "{{ light_group }}"
      enabled: true
      else:
    - action: light.turn_on
      metadata: {}
      data:
      brightness_pct: 100
      transition: |
      {{ states('input_number.light_transition_speed') | int }}
      target:
      entity_id: "{{ light_group }}"
      enabled: true
    - action: light.turn_on
      metadata: {}
      data:
      kelvin: |
      {{ states('input_number.lighttemp') | int }}
      target:
      entity_id: "{{ light_group }}"
      enabled: true
      alias: SC MasterSmartLightTemp
      mode: single
      icon: mdi:lightbulb
      fields:
      light_group:
      selector:
      entity:
      multiple: true
      name: Light Group
      required: true
      update_light_temp:
      selector:
      boolean: {}
      name: Update Light Temp
      description:
      required: true
      maintain_light_state:
      selector:
      entity: {}
      name: Maintain Light State
      description: ""

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So like the red works...

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Passing the light group entity works just as expected

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Here is the automation that is using it:
alias: Office Lighting
description: ""
triggers:

type: opened
device_id: 2eb37ec055807cf2e295b07645db914b
entity_id: fd613a9f8949510164a6a385c682c726
domain: binary_sensor
trigger: device
id: On Maintain Bright
trigger: state
entity_id:
- input_boolean.tg_office_lights
  from: null
  to: null
  id: On Full Bright
type: not_opened
device_id: 2eb37ec055807cf2e295b07645db914b
entity_id: fd613a9f8949510164a6a385c682c726
domain: binary_sensor
trigger: device
id: "Off"
conditions: []
actions:
choose:
- conditions:
  - condition: trigger
    id:
    - On Full Bright
      sequence:
  - action: script.sc_mastersmartlighttemp
    metadata: {}
    data:
    light_group:
    - light.lg_office
    maintain_light_state: false
    update_light_temp: false
- conditions:
  - condition: trigger
    id:
    - On Maintain Bright
      sequence:
  - action: script.sc_mastersmartlighttemp
    metadata: {}
    data:
    maintain_light_state: input_boolean.tg_maintain_light_state_office
    light_group:
    - light.li_bathvanr1
    update_light_temp: false
- conditions:
  - condition: trigger
    id:
    - "Off"
      sequence:
  - action: light.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
    entity_id: light.lg_office
    mode: single

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This is what it looks like when im calling the script. So im saying call this script with this light group and this toggle to see if when you call it you should maintain the brightness (Ik it says Bath light and office toggle just ignore that haha the idea is there)

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So when you call this script it should accept that light group, which works perfectly fine. but i just want the script to conditionally execute based on the toggle state of that toggle, so i passed it as a toggle

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This is a flow chart for an example of what im trying to do.

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Just to understand what the end goal here is I want to be able to say to alexa like "Lock living room lights" and it would turn that toggle on so then when i walk away and the lights shut off when i walk back in there, or if it somehow got retriggered by motion the lights would come back on how they were last time, and not go fully bright again. The reason for this is because if i press the switch i alway want the lights to go fully bright, and im trying to make this so i can maintain one single lighting script for everything, seeing you can see the whole yaml now the reason for the "Update Light Temp" one is because I have a seperate automation that checks the state of every light when the sun state changes. if the light is on when the sun sets or rises it will update their kelvin value, so that automation will use that Update Light temp boolean but its not relevant to this one.

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Here is me hard coding the toggle inside the script (which i dont want to do)

Where when i try to replace that hardcoded entity ID with the what im passing it doesnt work.

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To be clear this is the exact same way i am accepting the LG field:

peak rapids Jan 18, 2025, 11:47 AM

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What happens if you do this?

sequence:

if:
- condition: state
  entity_id: input_boolean.homealone
  state: "on"
  then:
- if:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ maintain_light_state }}"

I'm not sure that will work, but hopefully it gives different enough behavior/errors to help you get things fixed.

It seems like you're really focused on the light group working and the input boolean not working even though they are being handled the same. They are different types and are handled differently, so... Gonna have to try some other things with the bool

peak rapids Jan 18, 2025, 12:27 PM

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Actually, what I proposed looks just like the stuff I was having trouble with myself (which I got working, btw...)

Look at the code snippet I posted here
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thorn seal Jan 19, 2025, 5:29 PM

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peak rapids Actually, what I proposed looks just like the stuff I was having trouble with my...

No it still didnt like the
condition: template
value_template: "{{ maintain_light_state }}"

peak rapids Jan 19, 2025, 10:00 PM

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thorn seal Here is me hard coding the toggle inside the script (which i dont want to do) W...

It says your entity_id is undefined in this one.

You really need to post your error messages, not just "it doesn't work"

What happens when you go to your dashboard and click on the magnifying glass and put in "maintain_light_state"? Can you find it? Does it have a domain?

thorn seal Jan 19, 2025, 10:01 PM

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It’s not not somthing that would be in the dashboard, it’s a field for the script… just like that code shows light_group, it’s not defined until I call the script and pass it the entity.

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To be clear hard coding that toggel works, when I try to pass that toggle from the automation it doesn

peak rapids Jan 19, 2025, 11:10 PM

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Now I understand what you're trying to do and why it has you so baffled...

Sorry, I don't have any experience with passing variables to scripts. All I can come up with is that the one that works is specified with required: True, and the one that isn't working isn't specified that way.

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