Automations no longer editable in GUI but still working

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Hi everyone,

Just ran into an issue after a core upgrade.
I have a few automations that I built into the GUI previously, they are still working like a charm but it looks like something is going wrong when I try to edit them in GUI.

I have a empty page with the following error poping in js console

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No errors in the HA logs.

As far as I know, it occurs with all my integration that are sending actionnable notifications but I have no clue which step of the automation cause the issue.

Find below an automation that cause the issue.

  alias: '[monitoring] nobody is home'
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
    - binary_sensor.someone_home
    from: 'on'
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 3
      seconds: 0
    to: 'off'
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
    state: disarmed
  action:
  - variables:
      activate_action: '{{ ''ACTIVATE_'' ~ context.id }}'
      cancel_action: '{{ ''CANCEL_'' ~ context.id }}'
      tag: '{{ ''ha_nobody_is_home'' }}'
  - action: notify.all_devices
    metadata: {}
    data:
      message: 'nobody is at home '
      title: Alarme
      data:
        actions:
        - action: '{{ activate_action }}'
          title: Arm alarm
          destructive: true
        - action: '{{ cancel_action }}'
          title: Cancel
        tag: '{{ tag }}'
  - wait_for_trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
      event_data:
        action: '{{ activate_action }}'
    - platform: event
      event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
      event_data:
        action: '{{ cancel_action }}'
    - platform: state
      entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.someone_home
      to: 'on'
  - choose:
    - conditions:
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{ wait.trigger.event.data.action == activate_action }}'
      sequence:
      - action: alarmo.arm
        data:
          mode: away
          entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
          force: true
          skip_delay: true
    - conditions:
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{ wait.trigger.event.data.action == cancel_action }}'
      sequence:
  - action: notify.all_devices
    metadata: {}
    data:
      message: clear_notification
      data:
        tag: '{{ tag }}'
  mode: restart

Any hint are welcomes, I will try to investigate on which step exactly cause the issue more precisely.

Additional information : When I try to create a new automation with the exact same content, the GUI is working fine during the creation. However, when I save it I got an error message. The newly created automation does work, but is impacted the same way as my previous one : working but cannot edit them in the GUI.

Since the automations used to work in GUI, and are still working even though it’s not possible to display them anymore in GUI, I assume this look like a regression and I hope this can be fixed to avoid breaking the GUI for many users.

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After a few tests looking for what causes the issue
I figured out the automation seems to work when I remove the empty choose section

In the example above, I used to add an empty choose path for Cancel action, which just does nothing, but I like to leave it so the automation is ready to receive a new action.

    - conditions:
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{ wait.trigger.event.data.action == cancel_action }}'
      sequence:

Obviously, removing this snippet fix the issue.
The results seems to be the GUI doesn’t accept anymore empty sequence written :

sequence:

The fix here is to add an empty yaml array this way

sequence: []

Sounds reasonable but it’s a little bit sad that we did not rewrote existing automation to meet that case. I hope this thread might help anyone facing the same issue

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