Data_template with OR condition

[Lucas_Rey]

Hello community,
I have the following automation to play alarm in xiaomi Gateway if at least one mobile is at home (GPSLogger):

  - service: xiaomi_aqara.play_ringtone
    data_template:
      ringtone_vol: >
        {% if device_tracker.mobile1.state == 'home' || device_tracker.mobile2.state == 'home' %}
          2
        {% else %}
          10
        {% endif %}
      gw_mac: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      ringtone_id: 1

But this will end in:

Invalid config for [automation]: invalid template (TemplateSyntaxError: expected token ‘name’, got ‘|’) for dictionary value @ data[‘action’][1][‘data_template’][‘ringtone_vol’]. Got None.

It seems it doesn’t like the OR condition (||), plus it doens’t recognize the ringtone_vol value (but this depends for sure from first error). Could someone help here to add OR to IF THEN? Thank you

Thank you
Lucas

[lolouk44]

Try this:

  - service: xiaomi_aqara.play_ringtone
    data_template:
      ringtone_vol: >-
        {%- if states.device_tracker.mobile1.state == 'home' or states.device_tracker.mobile2.state == 'home' -%}
          2
        {%- else -%}
          10
        {%- endif -%}
      gw_mac: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      ringtone_id: 1

[Lucas_Rey]

Thank you for reply, I’ll try it asap even if I’m suspetting the state doesn’t work or at least is not valorized with word ‘home’, so first I would like to try to send me a notification with device state, but also there I’m getting crazy

  - service: notify.notifiche
    data_template:
      title: "Notification"
      message: "GPS State: {{ device_tracker.mobile1.state }}"

Obliviously other Pushbullet notifications work perfect!!!

EDIT: Ah got it! I forgot “states.” as per your code

[lolouk44]

your state should be states.device_tracker.mobile1.state

[Lucas_Rey]

@lolouk44

Try this:

No way

/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml: while parsing a block mapping
in “/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/automations.yaml”, line 333, column 7
expected ‘block end’, but found ‘scalar’
in “/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/automations.yaml”, line 336, column 11

[Lucas_Rey]

I move the gateway volume set to a script to simplify the action, so I tried the following, but still got error:

  - service: script.turn_on
    data_template:
      entity_id: >
        {%- if states.device_tracker.mobile1.state == 'home' or states.device_tracker.mobile2.state == 'home' -%} 
          script.gateway_volume_ten
        {% endif %}

[lolouk44]

probably the indentations.
Ty this instead:

  - service: xiaomi_aqara.play_ringtone
    data_template:
      ringtone_vol: >-
        {%- if states.device_tracker.mobile1.state == 'home' or states.device_tracker.mobile2.state == 'home' -%}2{%- else -%}10{%- endif -%}
      gw_mac: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      ringtone_id: 1

if that still doesn’t work, try and replace 'home' with "home"

[Lucas_Rey]

Same error… Maybe is better I found another way for my automation.

[lolouk44]

hum odd. If you leave everything the same and replace only

      ringtone_vol: >-
        {%- if states.device_tracker.mobile1.state == 'home' or states.device_tracker.mobile2.state == 'home' -%}2{%- else -%}10{%- endif -%}

with

      ringtone_vol: >-
        2

does that work?

[petro]

@lolouk44

{%- if states.device_tracker.mobile1.state == ‘home’ or states.device_tracker.mobile2.state == ‘home’ -%}2{%- else -%}10{%- endif -%}

Try:

{% if 'home' in [ states.device_tracker.mobile1.state, states.device_tracker.mobile2.state ] %}
  0.02
{% else %}
  0.10
{% endif %}

I think @lolouk44’s implementation will work too using 0.02 and 0.10. The documentation for ringtone_vol says that it requires a % value which home assistant typically uses 0 to 1 (at least for media_player devices).

Xiaomi Gateway (Aqara)

EDIT: It’s hard to say… the documentation points to using 8 as a value. I don’t know why @lolouk44’s automation isn’t working. Chances are my implementation won’t work either.

EDIT 2: I just checked the source code. The min is 0 the max is 100. So, i’m not sure why either @lolouk44’s implementation isn’t working.

    vol.Optional(ATTR_RINGTONE_VOL):
    vol.All(vol.Coerce(int), vol.Clamp(min=0, max=100))

[Lucas_Rey]

Thank you for the info, I’ll start my automation from scratch and I’ll report the result back here!

[Lucas_Rey]

Guys, I found the root cause of the error, and that’s a crazy issue. As I wrote I have 2 devices, real names assigned by HA are:
mine: device_tracker.ce051605ca46151234
And my wife’s one: device_tracker.52101ef647546529
The long number string is the devices serial number.

Well, the problem is my wife’s device (I’ve always known that wives are the problem )

I don’t know why, but HA doesn’t like the device name. If, for example I modify it to:
device_tracker.cd52101ef647546529
HA accept the configuration and doesn’t give me any error. Obliviously the automation doesn’t work due to wrong device name.
Now, how can I solve this issue? The device name is automatically assigned by HA into know_devices.yaml

EDIT 1:
Well, seem I solved in this way (using ‘’ ):

{% if 'home' in [ states.device_tracker.ce051605ca46151234.state, 'statesdevice_tracker.52101ef647546529' ] %}
  script.gateway_volume_ten
{% endif %}

No more error from HA, let’s see if the automation works.

EDIT 2: Nope, I’m surrendering… The quotes just report the name od device_tracker as state, so automation doesn’t work… That’s really odd…

[petro]

Not sure. I can say that typically python does not like numbers as starting characters of object names. That could be your issue. Try swapping to this:

{% if 'home' in [ state('device_tracker.ce051605ca46151234'), state('statesdevice_tracker.52101ef647546529') ] %}
  script.gateway_volume_ten
{% endif %}

[Lucas_Rey]

@petro

typically python does not like numbers as starting characters of object names

This explain why I got the error, and you’re absolutely right about python.
To chek what’s the tracker state, I sent a notification to my phone, like:

message: "State: {{ state('statesdevice_tracker.52101ef647546529') }} "

This will result in (no notification sent):

ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Error rendering data template: UndefinedError: ‘state’ is undefined

The right code is:
message: "State: {{ states('device_tracker.52101ef647546529') }} "

And finally I got no errors and the notifiication says:
State: Home

I believe I can use the same format with IF THEN ELSE
Thank you very match to all, expecially you, @petro, who drive me to the solution!!