Hi everyone,
maybe I’m a bit too stupid, I want to achieve the following:
- I have a mailbox sensor. ESPHome should automatically publish the value 1 when the slot is opened. Previously I did this directly in HA via an automation, now it should run via ESP. Now I have tried the following:
- mqtt.publish:
topic: "homeassistant/persistence/briefkasten"
payload: "{{ states('sensor.briefkasten') | int + 1 }}"
Unfortunately, this only leads to him posting this text “{{states(‘sensor.mailbox’) | int 1}}” as status. Where did I get the thinking error?
- Secondly, I wanted ESPHome to automatically activate and deactivate an automation in HA as well as trigger it, so I tried this:
- homeassistant.action:
action: counter.reset
data:
entity_id: counter.waschmaschine
- homeassistant.action:
action: automation.turn_on
data:
entity_id: automation.zahler_waschmaschine
So reset a counter and start the automation.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find out if this is possible via ESPHome in Homeassistant. Does anyone know?
Big thanks!