Automation Message Action

Configuration
1

All,

New here and racking my brain here on why the YAML editor is giving me this error and others when I’m trying to create this notification automation. I basically want to have a push notification sent when the attribute “errorMessage” for “vacuum.chopper” changes from null to some other value and I want to push the error message and the time to a notify group.

The push notification is working, but not with the data pulled form the entity’s attributes. I can’t seem to get the formatting correct.

Error

missed comma between flow collection entries at line 120, column 63:
     ... vacuum.chopper', 'friendly_name') }} is reporting ":" {{ state_a ... 
                          ^

Automation

- id: '1631847434654'
  alias: Automower Notifications
  description: Advise me when Chopper is having issues
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: vacuum.chopper
    attribute: errorMessage
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 30
      milliseconds: 0
  condition:
  - condition: not
    conditions:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: vacuum.chopper
      attribute: errorMessage
      state: null
  action:
  - service: notify.all_devices
    data:
      message: {{ state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'friendly_name') }} is reporting ":" {{ state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'errorMessage') }} at {{ state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'errorTime') }}
      title: Automower Error
  mode: single

State Attributes:

battery_level: 38
battery_icon: mdi:battery-40
mode: MAIN_AREA
activity: MOWING
state: IN_OPERATION
errorMessage: null
errorTime: null
nextStart: null
action: NO_SOURCE
restrictedReason: NOT_APPLICABLE
statusTimestamp: '2021-09-17 10:26:09'
friendly_name: Chopper
icon: mdi:robot-mower
supported_features: 12380
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  action:
  - service: notify.all_devices
    data:
      message: >-
        {{ state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'friendly_name') }} is reporting : {{ state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'errorMessage') }} at {{ state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'errorTime') }}
      title: Automower Error
  mode: single

If you dont have outer quotes ", make it multiline template by adding >-

3

I appreciate that. YAML editor accepts that and it appears to work. Why does the Automation UI YAML editor then not allow it and display this error:

Message malformed: required key not provided @ data['condition'][0]['conditions'][0]['state']

It formats the Actions to look like this even though what I edited in the YAML file directly is not wrapped and appears correct and to work:

service: notify.all_devices
data:
  message: >-
    {{ state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'friendly_name') }} is reporting : {{
    state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'errorMessage') }} at {{
    state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'errorTime') }}
  title: Automower Error
4

Try changing-

  condition:
  - condition: not
    conditions:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: vacuum.chopper
      attribute: errorMessage
      state: null

….to this-

  condition: "{{ state_attr('vacuum.chopper', 'errorMessage') is not none }}"