Calling a service in Python and giving a target entity_id

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Please, how do I translate this YAML example into Python?

 -   service: media_player.volume_set
     entity_id: media_player.downstairs
     data:
       volume_level: '1.0'

The HA documentation basically gives this example:

hass.services.call("light", "turn_on", data, False)

So far my Python translation is:

hass.services.call("media_player", "volume_set", data, False)

I don’t think the entity_id belongs into data, as it is not part of data in the YAML example. Where does it go?

thx

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Not sure, but what I’d do is search the core repo for examples of this being called.

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Thanks for answers.

I tried to set the entity_id into data now. It does surprisingly work.

Hope it’s not due to a side effect, like using the previous device by default, when no target it given in the appropriate place.

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Is this still working? I’m continuously getting an error saying

Error executing script: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']