"bad indentation of a mapping entry" out of the blue

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Sorry, I am lost. This was working for some while, but when doing some other edits, it threw the error about the penultimate line:

- id: '1680639628837'
  alias: Akku Leistungsregelung
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    seconds: /30
  condition:
  - type: is_value
    condition: device
    device_id: 9c460473e7da8a9c30faab45dbfadf58
    entity_id: sensor.epever_battery_voltage
    domain: sensor
    above: 25.6
  action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: hoymiles/ctrl/limit/0
      payload_template: "{{ ([[states('sensor.q3da_sml_p_in')|int + states('sensor.hm300_p_ac')|int - 20|int, 0]|max, 200]|min)|string + "W"}}"
  mode: single
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I’ve seen this before. I think it is to do with the [ ] characters but unsure why it sometimes happens. I think I worked around in by pasting in the full template string (not typing) in the “edit in YAML” mode.

3

Issues with that configuration:

  • You should provide default values for your int filters — states('sensor.foo')|int(0), for example;
  • You don’t need to run 20 through int;
  • Your quoting is messed up because you have double quotes around the W at the end.

You can also clean up your condition by using a numeric state condition rather than the device one:

  condition:
  - condition: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.epever_battery_voltage
    above: 25.6
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Yeah, after some fiddling with the GUI and the YAML editor it works. Some strange quirk!