I have 2 groups of entities. First is the sensors, second is the input_booleans. The purpose is that if anything triggers my sensors during alarm activation, the second set ( input booleans ) will switched to ‘on’ to register trigger until it is disabled manually, even if the sensors has reset itself to ‘off’.
the second group of ‘input_boolean’ will just have a prefix of ‘trigger_’ to the first group entities name ( sensors ) in the automation. And have it turn on. for example,
If the following are my sensors group
binary_sensors.door_1
binary_sensor.presence_5
and I defined the following input_booleans:
Input boolean:
input_boolean.trigger_door_1
initial: off
input_boolean.trigger_presence_5
initial: off
automation:
alias: ‘Trigger register while armed away’
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.door_1
- binary_sensor.presence_5
to: ‘on’
action:
I don’t seems to be able to get the second sets of equivalent ‘input_boolean.trigger_’ to turn on. I believe the problem lies in the last line but my experience in template couldn’t resolve it properly. thanks for any help on this.
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From what I can see, the template is incorrect, mostly because it is using square brackets instead of braces.
Try this:
- alias: 'Trigger register while armed away'
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.door_1
- binary_sensor.presence_5
to: 'on'
action:
service: input_boolean.turn_on
data_template:
entity_id: "input_boolean.trigger_{{ trigger.to_state.object_id }}"
I have tested the template and it works perfectly. Apologise for the formatting issue as this is my first time using this forum. Will format my quote properly for future questions.
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