Creating an alert template to concatenate individual templates in a marquee

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HI,

for a marquee in the Custom Header, I’d like to have a couple of signaling sensors to be displayed on a single line. I have all the ingredients and conditions, but am a bit confused how to group this in 1 single larger set of templates.

Have an example how to do this, but it is built on a single integration, which I don’t have, mine should be built on individual sensors.

the example is made by @ludeeus here in the Custom Header showcase thread :

        {% set alerts = namespace(active=[], color='var(--google-red-500)') %}
        {% if states('sensor.weatheralerts') | float != 0 %}
          {% for alert in state_attr('sensor.weatheralerts', 'alerts') %}
          {% set alerts.active = alerts.active + [alert['title']] %}
          {% endfor %}
        {% else %} {% set alerts.active = alerts.active + ['No active alerts'] %}
        {% endif %}

and the marquee then uses:

        <span style='color: {{ alerts.color }};'>
        Alerts: {{ alerts.active | join(' - ')}},
        </span>

so far so good. My sensors would be based on:

binary_sensor.alert:
  value_template: >
    {{ is_state('binary_sensor.schimmel_alert','on') or 
       is_state('binary_sensor.meteoalarm_brabant','on') or
       is_state('persistent_notification.updater_notification','notifying') or
       is_state('persistent_notification.trash_notification','notifying')}}

being on, and then I’d need to display these values for each contributing sensor above:

Schimmel alert: {{ states('sensor.schimmel_sensor')|float}}
MeteoAlarm: {{state_attr('binary_sensor.meteoalarm_brabant','awareness_level')} - {{state_attr('binary_sensor.meteoalarm_brabant','awareness_type')}}
Update {{ states('sensor.ha_available_version') }} available

Trash-alert:  {% if states('sensor.trash_firstdate') == 'vandaag'  %}   {{states('sensor.trash_today')|title}} wordt vandaag opgehaald!
       {% else %} {{states('sensor.trash_tomorrow')|title}} wordt morgen opgehaald!
       {% endif %}

Please have a look if yo can help me build this, thanks!

for the time being I now have this, but it obviously stops right after the first met condition and wouldn’t use the consecutive conditions if they where met…

{% if is_state('binary_sensor.alerts','on') %}
  {% if is_state('binary_sensor.schimmel_alert','on') %} Schimmel alert: {{ states('sensor.schimmel_sensor')|float}} - Ventilate! %
  {% elif is_state('binary_sensor.meteoalarm_brabant','on') %} MeteoAlarm: {{state_attr('binary_sensor.meteoalarm_brabant','awareness_level')}}{{state_attr('binary_sensor.meteoalarm_brabant','awareness_type')}}
  {% elif is_state('persistent_notification.updater_notification','notifying')%} Update: {{ states('sensor.ha_available_version') }} available
  {% elif is_state('persistent_notification.trash_notification','notifying')%} 
    {% if states('sensor.trash_firstdate') == 'vandaag' %} Afval:  {{states('sensor.trash_today')|title}} wordt vandaag opgehaald!
    {% else %} {{states('sensor.trash_tomorrow')|title}} wordt morgen opgehaald!
    {% endif %}
  {% endif%}
{% else %} No Alerts
{% endif %}

@petro and @123 might I ask you to have a quick glance here? Hope you can help me out.

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not sure what you want, do you have examples of what you’re trying to do? Maybe an image?

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No image yet, other than in the current situation in the footer:

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let me try to explain:

I have a horizontal marquee that shows a few sensor values. I’d like to add these alerts if and when they arise. But, and that’s where it gets tricky, if more than 1 of these exist, the template should concatenate them so all existing values are displayed ( right now only the first one to exist should be output. Or none.

Does this clarify a bit?

this would be it in a horribly verbose way I think (don’t even want to think about the empty else clauses…):

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      marquee_alerts:
        value_template: >
          {%- if is_state('binary_sensor.alerts','on') -%}
            {%- if is_state('binary_sensor.schimmel_alert','on') %} Schimmel alert: {{states('sensor.schimmel_sensor')|float}}% / CO2: {{states('sensor.co2_living')}} ppm - Ventilate!
            {%-else-%}
            {%-endif-%}
            {%-if is_state('binary_sensor.meteoalarm_brabant','on') %} MeteoAlarm: {{state_attr('binary_sensor.meteoalarm_brabant','awareness_level')}}{{state_attr('binary_sensor.meteoalarm_brabant','awareness_type')}}
            {%-else-%}
            {%-endif-%}
            {%- if is_state('persistent_notification.updater_notification','notifying')%} Update: {{states('sensor.ha_available_version')}} available
            {%-else-%}
            {%-endif-%}
            {%- if is_state('persistent_notification.trash_notification','notifying')%} 
            {%-else-%}
            {%-endif-%}
            {%- if states('sensor.trash_firstdate') == 'vandaag' %} Afval: {{states('sensor.trash_today')|title}} wordt vandaag opgehaald!
            {%-elif states('sensor.trash_tomorrow') != 'Geen'%} Afval: {{states('sensor.trash_tomorrow')|title}} wordt morgen opgehaald!
            {%-else-%}
            {%-endif-%}
          {%-else-%} No Alerts
          {%-endif-%}

used in the CH like this now:

      header_text: >-
        {% set alerts = namespace(active=[], color='var(--google-red-500)') %}
        {% if states('sensor.weatheralerts') | float != 0 %}
          {% for alert in state_attr('sensor.weatheralerts', 'alerts') %}
          {% set alerts.active = alerts.active + [alert['title']] %}
          {% endfor %}
        {% else %} {% set alerts.active = alerts.active + ['No active alerts'] %}
        {% endif %}
        {% set inside=states('sensor.temperatuur_living')%}
        {% set outside=states('sensor.temp_current')%} 
        {% set temp_color='var(--primary-text-color)'%} 
        {% set symbol='°C' %}
        <div style='display: flex;display: -webkit-flex;'>
        <div>Ha&nbspRpi4:&nbsp;</div>
        <marquee>
        <span style='color: {{ temp_color }}'>
        Inside temperature: {{ inside }}{{ symbol }},
        Outside temperature: {{ outside }}{{ symbol }},
        </span>
        <span style='color: {{ alerts.color }};'>
        Alerts: {{ alerts.active | join(' - ')}},
        </span>
        <span style='color: orange;'> 
        System alerts: {{states('sensor.marquee_alerts')}},
        </span>
        <span style='color: {{ temp_color }}'>
        Summary - {{states('sensor.dark_sky_summary')}},
        Daily -  {{states('sensor.dark_sky_daily_summary').split('.')[0]}},
        Hourly - {{states('sensor.dark_sky_hourly_summary').split('.')[0]}}.
        </span>
        </marquee>