Can't filter entities by labels using light.turn_off

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Hello all,
I’ve been using HA for a while now but just started getting more into YAML and JINJA to design more advanced automations.

My goal is to have a script that will turn off all lights in my house that can be called with different triggers, IE everyone leaves the house or we go to bed at night, etc.

I have a few labels categories for lights that I don’t want to be targeted for this script so I am trying to filter them out. For instance, I don’t want my security camera floodlights to turn off nor do I want my lights around the house that are on timers to turn off so I am filtering by the rejectattr label entities. See below:

action: light.turn_off
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
  entity_id: |-
    {{ states.light
      | rejectattr("entity_id", "in", label_entities("Don't Turn Off"))
      | rejectattr("entity_id", "in", label_entities("Security and Utility"))
      | rejectattr("entity_id", "in", label_entities("Dummylight"))
      | map(attribute="entity_id")
      | join(", ")
    }}

For whatever reason, when I reference this script, I get the following error message: “not a valid value for dictionary value @ data[0][‘target’][‘entity_id’]”

. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. Thanks in advance for the help.

Brian

2

Your join is missing a closing parenthesis.

3

Whoops, missed that. Thanks for catching. I placed the parenthesis back in there but it still isn’t properly filtering. It is turning off every single light in HA

4

Does the template return the expected values in the Template editor tool?

5

Yes it does! I don’t understand why it won’t translate to the light.turn_off action.

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  1. Are any of the entities unavailable?
  2. Have you tried using…
action: light.turn_off
target:
  entity_id: >
    {{ states.light
      | rejectattr("entity_id", "in", label_entities("Don't Turn Off"))
      | rejectattr("entity_id", "in", label_entities("Security and Utility"))
      | rejectattr("entity_id", "in", label_entities("Dummylight"))
      | map(attribute="entity_id")
      | select('has_value')
      | list
    }}
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Thanks for your help, I finally got it!
I had to replace ‘join’ with ‘list’ as your code suggested.

I added the ‘expand(states.light)’ and this allowed me to specifically target the lights that aren’t filtered by rejectattr. If I did not include ‘expand(states.light)’ it would automatically target all nights… I am not sure why.

Final working code:

action: light.turn_off
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
  entity_id: >-
    {{ expand(states.light)
      | rejectattr("entity_id", "in", label_entities("Don't Turn Off"))
      | rejectattr("entity_id", "in", label_entities("Security and Utility"))
      | rejectattr("entity_id", "in", label_entities("Dummylight"))
      | map(attribute="entity_id")
      | list
    }}
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