Counting a trigger

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Hello all.

I am new here and am trying out all sorts of things to learn from HA.
I have a printer ink level trigger.

This works ok, but would like to keep track of how many times each entity is triggered.

It is possible for HA to automatically use trigger.entity_id
maintain a couter that counts this per entity.

All reactions are very welcome, that’s how I learn the most.

Here my code.

code

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In the future, please post code as formatted text and not as a screenshot (see guideline #14 in the FAQ).

You can create a Counter for each entity then enhance your automation so it also increments the entity’s counter.

For example, assuming you create these counters:

counter.printer_keuken_zaak_color
counter.printer_keuken_zaak_black
counter.printer_bureau_black
counter.printer_bureau_color

You can then add the following service call to your automation’s action.

  - service: counter.increment
    target:
      entity_id: "counter.{{trigger.to_state.object_id}}"

If sensor.printer_bureau_color triggers the automation, then counter.printer_bureau_color will be incremented.

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Thank you for your response!

In the future, please post code as formatted text and not as a screenshot (see [guideline #14 in the FAQ]

Will read this tip carefully!

And will certainly try out your solution.
:innocent: :grinning:

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Thank you again for your response.

Does this also work with “input_text …”?

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Before I can answer your question, I will need you to explain how and where you are using an input_text entity. For example, is it used in a State Trigger?

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As I said, I am very new to HA.
I try to test as much as possible to understand a little bit better how it works.

I mean so if a certain trigger, eg sensor.printer_keuken_zaak_color, is activated from above, is it possible that I can put a certain value in eg “input_text.printer_keuken_zaak_color”?

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Sorry,
but another question.
How can I read this value if necessary?

8

Yes.

For example, let’s say you want to use the input_text as a counter and sensor.printer_keuken_zaak_color triggered the automation. The following service call will take the existing value of input_text.printer_keuken_zaak_color and increment it by one.

    action:
      - variables:
          x: "input_text.{{trigger.to_state.object_id}}"
      - service: input_text.set_value
        target:
          entity_id: "{{ x }}"
        data:
          value: "{{ states(x) | int + 1 }}"

If you only want to set it to a specific value, like Hello World or 250 or whatever else you want, then you can use this simpler version:

    action:
      - service: input_text.set_value
        target:
          entity_id: "input_text.{{trigger.to_state.object_id}}"
        data:
          value: "Hello World"
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Thank you very much, now I am getting a little further. Been searching all day! Try to understand all of this, but it is not so obvious. Would you be so kind as to tell me how I can read these values ​​in the future.

You may also know where to find out how HA works. Preferably in Dutch

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I don’t know where to find reference material for Home Assistant in Dutch. However, I do know there are native Dutch speakers who are members of this forum. Perhaps one of them will read this discussion and help you with that.

Most of what I have shown can be found in the official documentation, specifically here:

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Would you be so kind as to tell me how I can read these values ​​in the future.

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I’m sorry but I don’t understand the question. What do you mean by reading the values in the future?

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Ok, thank you again for helping me out. Yet I still hang somewhere!

I now have the counter “counter.printer_keuken_zaak_color” which has a certain value. How can I approach this value now. Have already tried several things but really can’t figure it out !!

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If you want to get the counter’s value you can use the states function in a template:

{{ states ('counter.printer_keuken_zaak_color') }}

That’s described in the Templating documentation.

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OK thank you.
I understood that to that extent.

But if I want to forward this value eg in my example to eg mobile phone how should I access it?
device_id: 0b463d7317e2bbc5ebf2d713aa5aae89
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Inktniveau Printers
message: >-
{{ state_attr(trigger.entity_id, ‘friendly_name’) }}
{{states(‘input_text.printer_woord’)}} {{states(trigger.entity_id)}} % {{
{{states(counter.{{trigger.to_state.object_id}}}}

Have already tried this but can’t get it to work!