Dashboard Card Button Multiple Commands

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I’m a newbee to HA, but have used Hubitat extensively in the past. I’m trying to setup HA as a replacement to Hubitat, and going through a steep learning curve. I had hit a problem that I seek seek some help please.

I am using a Raspberry Pi 5, with a sd card built using RPi Imager to create a bootable HA. Versions are:

  • Core 2024.10.1
  • Supervisor 2024.09.1
  • Operating System 13.1
  • Frontend 20241002.2

Using the Ui, not YAML code.

I have set-up a Broadlink RM4 Pro device, learnt and tested sucessfully a range of commands. The RM4 Pro is being used to control multiple devices and I’ve successfully set-up a dashboard and a card with multiple buttoms each using Remote:Send action to send a single command to the RM4, which sends an IR code to the device. All good so far.

The snag is that I am having problems trying to set up a button with multiple Remote: Send actions which will make the RM4 Pro send multiple IR codes. The use case is to have one button to power up/down 3 devices.here are the 3 commands that I set up in the UI
TvPower
SwitchPower
SoundbarPower

When I press the button, here is the result:
Screenshot 2024-10-06 154225

Going back to edit the card button, here is the command that I see:
TvPower SwitchPower SoundbarPower

Here is the card code:

square: true
type: grid
cards:
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        device_id: d503814f0fe15f3d434afe6666ecb9ba
      data:
        command: TvPower SwitchPower SoundbarPower
        device: All
    icon: mdi:power
    name: AV Power
    entity: remote.bedroom_av
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        device_id: d503814f0fe15f3d434afe6666ecb9ba
      data:
        device: All
        command: Mute
    icon: mdi:volume-mute
    name: Mute
    entity: remote.bedroom_av
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        device_id: d503814f0fe15f3d434afe6666ecb9ba
      data:
        command: VolumeUp
        device: All
    icon: mdi:volume-plus
    name: Vol Up
    entity: remote.bedroom_av
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        device_id: d503814f0fe15f3d434afe6666ecb9ba
      data:
        device: All
        command: VolumeDown
    icon: mdi:volume-minus
    name: Vol Down
    entity: remote.bedroom_av
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        device_id: d503814f0fe15f3d434afe6666ecb9ba
      data:
        command: InMedia
        device: All
    name: "In Media "
    icon: mdi:folder-play
    entity: remote.bedroom_av
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        device_id: d503814f0fe15f3d434afe6666ecb9ba
      data:
        command: InChromecast
        device: All
    name: In C/Cast
    icon: mdi:cast-connected
    entity: remote.bedroom_av
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: toggle
    entity: switch.bulb_bed1
    name: Bulb
    icon: mdi:lightbulb
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: toggle
    entity: light.lights_bed1
    name: Downlights
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        device_id: d503814f0fe15f3d434afe6666ecb9ba
      data:
        device: All
        command: TvPower
    entity: remote.bedroom_av
    name: TV Power
    icon: mdi:power
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        device_id: d503814f0fe15f3d434afe6666ecb9ba
      data:
        device: All
        command: SwitchPower
    entity: remote.bedroom_av
    icon: mdi:power
    name: Switch Power
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        device_id: d503814f0fe15f3d434afe6666ecb9ba
      data:
        num_repeats: 1
        delay_secs: 0.4
        hold_secs: 0
        device: All
        command: SoundbarPower
    entity: remote.bedroom_av
    icon: mdi:power
    name: S/bar Power
columns: 4
title: Bedroom

So to summarise, I set up 3 seperate commands that are joined togetherby the UI as one command, which fails.

Any help to guide me on the right path would be much appreciated.

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Have no experience with these particular commands.
What I understood (please correct me if I am wrong):

  • you can call 3 commands separately - if each command is called by 3 buttons
  • but you want to have 1 button to call these 3 commands

If yes - then consider this way:

  1. Create a script containing these 3 commands called one by one
  2. Call this script for 1 button
3

Thnaks for the feedback, I’ll try what you suggest. It will prompt me to learn a new skill, ie scripting!

4

That’s done it, thanks again