Entity Card - Date Parsing Error (Perform Action)

Configuration Frontend
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I’m trying to configure some entity cards on a dashboard, which when pressed, reset the date of a date_time helper to the current date (as part of a system to track maintenance items). Originally I was going to use an automation to reset the date of each helper, but then I noticed you can use ‘perform action’ as a tap behavior on something like an entity card. I can select my helper as a target entity for the ‘set input datetime value’ action, but no matter what format I have tried for ‘now’ as the date value I get a parsing error ("Failed to perform the action input_datetime/set_datetime. Could not parse date at ‘date’ "). For reference, my code in my automation works to reset the date to the current date:

alias: Roborock QX Revo - Filter Change Date (Reset)
description: ''
triggers: []
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: input_datetime.set_datetime
    data:
      datetime: '{{ now() }}'
    target:
      entity_id: input_datetime.roborock_qx_revo_filter_change_date
mode: single

while my code in the entity card does not:

type: entity
entity: input_datetime.roborock_qx_revo_filter_change_date
name: Clean Filter
grid_options:
  columns: 6
  rows: 2
state_color: true
tap_action:
  action: perform-action
  perform_action: input_datetime.set_datetime
  target:
    entity_id: input_datetime.roborock_qx_revo_filter_change_date
  data:
    date: '{{ now() }}'

Any suggestions would be appreciated… Thanks!

2

The entity card, like most core cards, does not support templating.

Put your action in a script (not an automation, as you have no triggers) and call that from the card action. You can use templates there.

3

Thanks, I found using a script as a solution after I posted this, and it seems to work well. I appreciate the feedback.