Combine 2 actions into 1

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Hi All,

Im struggling with Presence. Sometimes geofence or Locative are not sending the URL to turn tracker at ‘home’ or ‘away’.
So I created a input_boolean and a binary_sensor.

Binary_sensor look to state of input_boolean.

Here is the 2 scripts. When geofence tracker state home then input_boolean get state ‘on’ same for locative tracker. Individual they turn on or off the input_boolean. So when 1 of both fails to send the URL then still I have a correct ‘Presence’
Now I want combine them into 1 action based on trigger entity_id. but tried lot of things without success:

- alias: 'System - Peter Left or Arrive GeoFency Manual'
  trigger:
  - entity_id: device_tracker.geofency_peter
    platform: state

  action:
    - service_template: >-
        {% if is_state('device_tracker.geofency_peter', 'home') %} input_boolean.turn_on
        {% else %} input_boolean.turn_off
        {% endif %}
      data:
        entity_id: input_boolean.peter_home_manual

- alias: 'System - Peter Left or Arrive Locative Manual'
  trigger:
  - entity_id: device_tracker.1717fe36_3c70_4599_963c_b70b6ee95eba
    platform: state

  action:
    - service_template: >-
        {% if is_state('device_tracker.1717fe36_3c70_4599_963c_b70b6ee95eba', 'home') %} input_boolean.turn_on
        {% else %} input_boolean.turn_off
        {% endif %}
      data:
        entity_id: input_boolean.peter_home_manual

a OR statement is not the correct one, because it will check then both trackers.

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In this example, if either device_tracker changes state, the action will be executed.

- alias: 'System - Peter Left or Arrive Locative or GeoFency Manual'
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - device_tracker.1717fe36_3c70_4599_963c_b70b6ee95eba
      - device_tracker.geofency_peter
  action:
  - service_template: >-
      {% if trigger.to_state.state == 'home' %} input_boolean.turn_on
      {% else %} input_boolean.turn_off
      {% endif %}
    data:
      entity_id: input_boolean.peter_home_manual

EDIT
Removed extraneous parenthesis from the template.

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Thanks @123, funny I tried to use trigger.to_state.state but didn’t work. Maybe something wrong my side. Let me test this :slight_smile:

edit: Worked!! removed the ) behind the ‘home’

Thanks!

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I banged that one out quickly and overlooked to remove that parenthesis. I’ve corrected my example above so if others are looking for the solution they won’t get Config Check errors.

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Never to old to learn every day! Thank you for the off_topic tip

With your script I have a solid solution to have a good presence solution.
Tracker on IP or MAC is also a option but not always good, iPhones go in sleep and disconnect Wifi.