Automation to control group of input booleans

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I have 15 input booleans. When any one of them turns on, I want the other 14 to turn off. What’s the most efficient way to do this?

Cheers, Richard

2

The most efficient way would be to remove the booleans and use an input_select instead, which can only have 1 of its options active at a time.

3

Sounds good. I’ll check it out.

4

What does the error say?

5

My bad. I thought I had put this after my input booleans, but I had somehow broken them apart. Thanks.

6

to expand on what @anon43302295’s solution… If you use an input_select but you want input booleans, you can make template switches and expose them in the UI while hiding the input select:

input_select:
  myoptions:
    name: My Options
    options:
      - None
      - Option 1
      - Option 2

Then make a switch templates:

switch:
  - platform: template
    switches:
      option_1:
        value_template: "{{ is_state('input_select.myoptions', 'Option 1') }}"
        turn_on:
        - service: input_select.select_option
          data:
            entity_id: input_select.myoptions
            option: Option 1
        turn_off:
        - service: input_select.select_option
          data:
            entity_id: input_select.myoptions
            option: None
      option_2:
        value_template: "{{ is_state('input_select.myoptions', 'Option 2') }}"
        turn_on:
        - service: input_select.select_option
          data:
            entity_id: input_select.myoptions
            option: Option 2
        turn_off:
        - service: input_select.select_option
          data:
            entity_id: input_select.myoptions
            option: None
7

Thanks for that helpful suggestion. I can see I will need to get into templates. I can read yaml pretty well, but the curly-brackets add another level of abstraction.