I am creating a telegram bot integration and wanting to create an inline keyboard for each light within a group. I am struggling a little with the Jinja syntax required to make that happen. The closest I have is:
inline_keyboard: >
{%- for entity_id in states.group.lights.attributes.entity_id -%}
{%- set parts = entity_id.split('.') %}
{{ states[parts[0]][parts[1]].name }} {{ states(entity_id) }}:/light_toggle,
{% endfor -%}"
It looks like Jinja is formatting this into a single line string which forces all buttons onto the same row:
Jinja templates will only ever return a single string.
You can return an array as a string, but the only way to do that in your circumstances is with a single attribute from the state object. You won’t be able to get both the state and the name.
{{ states | selectattr('entity_id', 'in', state_attr('group.lights','entity_id')) | map(attribute='name') | list }}
You could try a macro, but a macro only outputs a string as well. So you’d essentially output your list as a string from the macro. Then add a square bracket before and after.
Also, your template has an extra double quote at the end.
after reading the documentation, i notice that the yaml requires a list. There’s no way to convert template output into a list. So everything I’ve written here will have the correct look, but not work.
Thanks for the clear explanation, looks like I will be writing a fair few more automations.
Interestingly it doesn’t like you can pass an argument along with an inline keyboard anyway (- "Key:/button argument) which makes this idea a non start anyway.
