Hey everybody,
I’m new to the whole universe of HA. I mastered some automation already by myself but this one is quite challenging. In this I use templates and I always get problems with the request of the state of the battery output power. "Message malformed: template value should be a string for dictionary value @ data[‘action’][0][‘if’][0][‘conditions’][3][‘value_template’]"
So I don’t know what exactly is wrong and in the developer tools, the expression is always functioning. I will post the code below with some comments on what it actually should do. I hope you can help me
alias: Deye Ein-/Ausschalten Low Batt
description: >-
Turn off the Inverter when the Voltage is under 51,3V and the battery output power is below 200W. First, it has to turn off the beep and then the Inverter itself
trigger:
- platform: numeric_state
entity_id:
- sensor.deye_battery_voltage
below: 51.3
id: Voltage_Low
- platform: time
at: "07:00:00"
id: DeyePower_On
condition: null
action:
- if:
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- Voltage_Low
- condition: time
after: "18:00:00"
before: "7:00:00"
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ now().month in [1,2,3,10,11,12] }}" # this works actually fine
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{states("sensor.deye_battery_output_power") | float(0) < 200 }} # Here is the problem I would like to check if the current output power is under 200W and then return true
then:
- service: input_boolean.turn_off # First turn off the warning noises, then the inverter. I know a delay is not accurate...
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.beep
- delay: "00:01"
- service: input_boolean.turn_off
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.deye_hautptschalter
else: []
- if:
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: DeyePower_Off
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ now().month in [1,2,3,10,11,12] }}"
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{is_state("switch.deye_power_on", "off") }} # Should check whether the inverter is off then return true.
then:
- service: input_boolean.turn_on # First turn on Inverter then turn on the warning noises
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.deye_hautptschalter
- delay: "00:01"
- service: input_boolean.turn_on
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.beep
else: []
mode: single
Thanks in advance!