Does anybody have an example of an script or automation that calls a script, and then uses the information returned by “response_variable”? I can see on the docs how to return the value, but I cannot wrap my mind about how to use it? Thanks!

This post covers it [image] 2023.7: Responding services Blog Based on the documentation I missed that @crzynik pointed out… add_five: variables: value_plus_five: > {{ {'value': value + 5} }} sequence: - stop: "returning value + 5" response_variable: va…

can you use the value of a response_variable in a condition home assistant ? Something like- condition: state entity_id: script.is_someone_home state: "on" Where the script (in this case, returns either true or false) ?

You have to use a template condition. i.e if you assign the response variable to foo and foo contained {'value': True} or {'value': False}, then… condition: template value_template: "{{ foo.value }}"

[image] petro: condition: template value_template: "{{ foo.value }}" Perfect, ty

This should be stupidly simple but my brain has gone blank. If the response variable returns a boolean, I get this error in the logs: Error while executing automation automation.someone_is_home: Service response data expected a dictionary, was <class 'bool'> This is the script: alias: Is Someone…

the returned value of a script needs to be a dictionary. Right now you’re just sending peoplearehome, which is a single boolean result. i.e. Just True or False. The return needs to be a dictionary which would be {"somekey": True} or {"somekey": False}, which in turn means you’d use {{ someoneish…

Thanks Petro, all working fine now. If I could mark it as my solution, I would :wink: I missed that in the example above, they did it in a slightly different way: duration: > {% set value = buffer if current == 0 else current %} {{ {'value': value / flow } }}

Perhaps its too late to revive this subject, but I’ll give it a try. @petro is often coming to the rescue :wink: I’m running HA 2024.4.3 I’m trying to pass a response_variable from one script to another via an automation. The final result is sent as a notify message to my mobile phone. When I use…

It means you have to return a dictionary. This is a dictionary: {'something': 'value'} This is a string 'value'

Indeed! :+1: Thank you so much @petro . That solved my problem :blush:

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petro (Petro) August 4, 2023, 1:32pm 2

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