Actionable Notification Help with number reply

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Hello all. I am working through actionable notifications, and I have gotten simple ones to work to trigger automations, but I want to create one that asks for a number (temperature value), and then that number gets passed to a thermostat as the set temperature. I cannot figure out how to get the value into an automation. I tried the action: reply command, but then I dont know where to go from there. I cannot seem to find any documentation to help me through this.

Thanks for any help!

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When you complete your reply it will be included in the event data in the variable reply_text. So you would set up your wait trigger to catch specific values on that variable or to respond to all events then process the reply in your Choose action and/or templating.

Here’s an example setting the temperature with a Reply:

...
action:
  - alias: "Set up variables for the actions"
    variables:
      action_ignore: "{{ 'IGNORE_' ~ context.id }}"
  - alias: Ask to change temperature
    service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
    data:
      message: What should I set the thermostat to?
      data:
        tag: "thermostat"
        actions:
          - action: REPLY
            title: New Temperature
          - action: "{{ action_ignore }}"
            title: Keep Current
  - alias: Wait for a response
    wait_for_trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
        event_data:
          action: REPLY
      - platform: event
        event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
        event_data:
          action: "{{ action_ignore }}"
    timeout: "00:05:00"
    continue_on_timeout: false
  - choose:
    - conditions: "{{ wait.trigger.event.data.action == action_ignore or wait.trigger == none }}"
      sequence:
        - service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
          data:
            message: "clear_notification"
            data:
              tag: "thermostat"
    - conditions: "{{ wait.trigger.event.data.action == 'REPLY' }}"
      sequence:
        - service: climate.set_temperature
          data:
            temperature: "{{ wait.trigger.event.data.reply_text }}"
          target:
            entity_id: climate.example_thermostat
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Thank you so much for getting back to me about this. I will give it a try and let you know if I can get it to work!

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This is amazing! Much appreciated. This works perfectly from my iPhone, but does not work from my Apple Watch. I get the notification, can post a reply, but the temperature does not change. Any idea why that may be?