Automation Triggers - Identifyimg Lock Keypad Use vs Manual unlock

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I want to disable the Home Assistant Alarm if my Side Door was unlocked by the Keypad. I will note that my Lock is accessed through the Smartthings Integration so testing ZWave values might not be available. I did do some debugging and determined that looking at the last change it does tell me the method used when I look at the lock in the UI.

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Also looking at the state table in the Home Assistant DB I see this in the attributes field.

{“lock_state”: “locked”, “method”: “keypad”, “friendly_name”: “Side Door Lock”}

I just don’t know how to go about testing and parsing the value of an attribute in an automation trigger.

Would appreciate any help.

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Paste this into the Template Editor, change the entity name to whatever you are using and observe the result.

{{ state_attr('lock.my_lock', 'method') }}

{{ state_attr('lock.my_lock', 'method') == 'keypad' }}
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Thank you! for helping me with a direction. I hadn’t used Templates before. It appears there is several ways to do this. I see I can setup a Sensor in my config and simply check that as part of the automation.