Fill Input select

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Hi, I’m trying to make an automation, so when HA starts, it fills an option select with all the entities that belongs to a group. I’m trying with the lights_all group, but it cloud be anyone. The idea is that when I include an entity in this group, it automatically appears (after reboot) in all the input selects that I want .

Can anybody help me?

2

Try:

{{ state_attr('group.all_lights', 'entity_id') }}
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This is my automation. How should I ise this?

- alias: Llenar lista para timers genericos
  trigger:
    platform: homeassistant
    event: start
  action:
    - delay: 00:30
    - service: input_select.set_options
      entity_id: input_select.timer_generico7
      data_template:
        options: [ {{ state_attr('group.all_lights', 'entity_id') }} ]
4

Close, but:

options: "{{ state_attr('group.all_lights', 'entity_id') }}"

EDIT: Sorry doing this on my phone. Actually that might work the way you had it.

5

Sorry, still doesn’t work…

6

Yeah, sorry. I’m back at a computer and I’ve been trying, but I think this is one of those, “sorry, you just can’t do this with Jinja” things. At least not directly like this. The problem is, at least as I understand it, a Jinja template will output just one string, no matter what you try to do.

You might be able to do this with a Python Script, though.

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Ok, Thanks!! I’ll be waiting your answer!!

8

Ok, below is a script that should do what you want. It can be enhanced to take variables like the name of the group and the name of the input_select, but for now it’s hard coded for the scenario described above.

Copy the following code into a file in your <config>/python_scripts directory. (Create the directory if necessary.) The file name should have a .py extension. The service you will need to call is python_script.xxx where xxx is the name of the script. So, e.g., if you put this code in <config>/python_scripts/update_timer_generico7.py, then the service will be named python_script.update_timer_generico7.

Here is the code:

group_entities = hass.states.get('group.all_lights').attributes['entity_id']
all_lights = []
for e in group_entities:
    all_lights.append(e)
service_data = {'entity_id': 'input_select.timer_generico7',
                'options': all_lights}
hass.services.call('input_select', 'set_options', service_data)

The options will be the entity_id’s of all the lights that exist. If you’d rather the options be the friendly_name’s of the lights, let me know.

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Thanks pnbruckner, you are great!! But the thing is (i’m just starting with HA) that doesn’t work…

I put the script exactly as you described, and updated my automation this way:

- alias: Llenar lista para timers genericos
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
    platform: homeassistant
    event: start
  action:
    - delay: 00:30
    - service: python_script.update_timers_genericos

the input select is declared this way:

  timer_generico7:
    name: Timer generico 7 orden
    options:
    - Elegir
    icon: mdi:clock

I put one option because if I don’t, I recive an error on check config…

Buy When I open the input select, I just have this initial option…

10

I tried @pnbruckner’s solution and it works great for me.

If you did this, the service should be:

python_script.update_timer_generico7
11

Per @VDRainer, make sure the name of the service and the name of the script match.

Also, you either need to restart HA, or at least, run the python_script.reload service via the Services page, after you create the python_scripts/xxx.py file.

It should work - I even tested it with an input_select I created just for the test before I provided the solution.

12

the service named pyton_script is not listed in my services page. Should I eneble this in some way?

13

NOW IT WORKS!!! I had to enable python scripts from the configuration.yaml

THANKS A LOT!!!

14

Oops, yeah, sorry, forgot about that. :blush: Glad it’s working!

15

pnbruckner, can you tell me how the python script would be to show the friendly name instead of the entity id?

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I was wondering if you’d want that. :wink:

group_entities = hass.states.get('group.all_lights').attributes['entity_id']
all_lights = []
for e in group_entities:
    all_lights.append(hass.states.get(e).attributes['friendly_name'])
service_data = {'entity_id': 'input_select.timer_generico7',
                'options': all_lights}
hass.services.call('input_select', 'set_options', service_data)

Note that this script has basically no error checking, so you might want to “beef it up” a bit. :slight_smile:

17

Sorry, I’m a rookie. I continue seeing the entity id…

18

Sorry, I made a mistake…

IT WORKS!!!

you’re a genious!!, Thanks a lot!!!

19

Can I turn on a light using its friendly name intead of its entity_id?

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Not directly. But you can do something like this:

  - service: light.turn_on
    data_template:
      entity_id: >
        {{ (states.light|selectattr('attributes.friendly_name','eq',
              states('input_select.timer_generico7'))|list)
           [0].entity_id }}
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