Automation determine who changed input

[brycew]

Is there a way in my automation to determine who changed the value of an input?

I have a custom Mqtt script running on a Pi that sends values from a Bose csp. I have input numbers holding the volume values. I want to be able to send the new values back to the server via mqtt but only when they changed by the user and not an endless loop.

[123 (Taras)]

@brycew

a way in my automation to determine who changed the value of an input?

Yes.

Automation condition based on an event and the user which trigger the event

If your automation uses a State Trigger, the following will be available (for use in a template within the condition or action): trigger.to_state.context.user_id However, user_id is not the user’s name but a long-winded identifier (string of letters and numbers). Although it’s possible to use it to determine the user’s actual name, that’s not necessary for your application. To determine if the user is not you, just compare their user_id to your user_id. Of course, to do that you must first dis…

If the value of the input_number is changed by an automation, trigger.to_state.context.user_id will be none otherwise it will be a long alphanumeric string representing the user’s identifier. If you simply check that user_id is not none it will mean it was changed by a user (via the UI).

Whatever automation you are using to call the custom MQTT script, will need to check trigger.to_state.context.user_id (assuming it employs something like a State Trigger that reports context.user_id).