Hello!
I have a feature request with respect to this new feature you have introduced (variables check), but not sure where to write about it, so decided to put it as a reply to your post - atleast this way we mantain the context.
The problem - when I get a warning of this type: “Template variable warning: ‘input_flash_time’ is undefined when rendering…” I am not provided the name of the script which has caused the warning. As you could have seen by now, my scripts are pretty general and I use a lot of variables with same names in differnt scripts. Thus, not knowing the name of the script which spawn the warning brings me another challenge - to find a script where a variable was invoked.
Am I missing something or there is no reference to the problematic script indeed? If so, could it be a feature request? (really helpfull one)
Unfortunatelly it is not so simple in real life as it is in dreams…
It only provides a body of a template, not the name of a script where this template is called - and it is a big difference. Sometimes you may have dozens and dozens of templates within same script referencing variables you pass to this scripts. And another script may accept variables with similar names, and templates in that another script would be pretty similar in a syntax to the templates from the first one. And from the body of a template you would never tell which script it belongs to. And you have to look through all of your scripts to finally find where you have misspelled it… And the problem is, that often you do not even remember which script used variable with such name, and you have to look through nerly half of your scripts before you finally remember where it was… I guess, now you see the point and necessity.
You can copy the entire template and search all your files for the entire template. It’ll get you to the exact template. If it gets you to the wrong template, then you just found another template that you have to adjust.
I understand your frustrations, but it has the information you’re looking for right now, it just doesn’t list the template entity it comes from.
My point is: You have the power to find this right now and it’s a copy/paste away with a text editor like VSCode or Notepad++.
EDIT: To clarify further…
Here’s the 1 button click option in visual studio code…
and here’s the 1 button search option in notepad++
Hi everyone!
One simple question, after this update, I got a lot of Teplate variable warning which is of course expected.
But how do I debug these? When reading the warning message, I do not know in which file, which line, or maybe which custom_component is causing the issue. I am sure I missed something…
Source: helpers/template.py:1335
First occurred: April 23, 2021, 11:56:00 PM (2126 occurrences)
Last logged: 12:15:00 AM
Template variable warning: dict object has no element Undefined when rendering '{% set values = {'idle':'off','heat':'heating','cool':'cooling','fan only':'fan'} %}{{ values[value_json.running_state] }}'
Template variable warning: 'dict object' has no attribute 'click' when rendering '{{ value_json.click }}'
Template variable warning: 'dict object' has no attribute 'action' when rendering '{{ value_json.action }}'
Template variable warning: 'dict object' has no attribute 'power_on_behavior' when rendering '{{ value_json.power_on_behavior }}'
Template variable warning: 'mappingproxy object' has no attribute 'icon' when rendering '{%- for item in states.sensor if ( not is_state_attr(item.entity_id, 'hidden', true) and ( is_state_attr(item.entity_id, 'device_class', 'battery') or 'battery' in item.attributes.icon | lower or (item.entity_id | lower).endswith('_bat') or (item.name | lower).endswith('_bat') ) or ( ( 'battery' in item.entity_id | lower or 'battery' in item.name | lower ) and ( item.attributes.icon is not defined ) and ( not is_state_attr(item.entity_id, 'battery_alert_disabled', true) ) and ( not is_state_attr(item.entity_id, 'restored', true) ) ) ) -%} {{ item.entity_id }}{% if not loop.last %}, {% endif %} {%- endfor -%}'
It gives you the full template you can search for. That last one has issues with quotes. Use double quotes outside your template and single quotes inside.
I am sorry to look stupid. How do I search for the full template ? I have many files and right now I use the FIle editor addon. Maybe I should use another one?
Don’t know about the file editor addon but the editor I use (VSCode) you press ctrl+f to find then paste what you are searching for into the find field.
applause…