I have a script which flashes a group of lights 3 times but I would like to know how to make two differnet changes to the code (they would be different scripts)
- flash x number of times
- repeat untll an input_boolean (flashing_enabled) is false
current code is like this:
flash_lights_sub:
sequence:
- service: script.all_lights_on
- delay: 00:00:02
- service: script.all_lights_off
- delay: 00:00:02
flash_lights:
alias: Flash House Lights 3 times
sequence:
... do some init...
- service: script.flash_lights_sub
- service: script.flash_lights_sub
- service: script.flash_lights_sub
... do some cleanup...
I tried the following but it didn’t work as it stated that the scripts was already running when it had done it’s first loop:
I assume this is because it doesn’t like recursion. Can a method be called asynchronously? Allowing the parent call to exit?
flash_lights_driver:
sequence:
- service: script.flash_lights_sub
- service: script.flash_lights_condition
flash_lights_condition:
sequence:
- service_template: >
{% if is_state("input_boolean.flashing_enabled", "on") %}
script.flash_lights_driver
{% else %}
script.flash_lights_cleanup
{% endif %}
flash_lights_cleanup:
sequence:
... do some cleanup...
flash_lights:
sequence:
... do some init...
- service: script.flash_lights_driver
How should I do this?
I was hoping that Jinja would have either a ‘while’ operator (to do a while input_boolean is true condition) or a ‘for’ operator which supports numbers (to allow for a for i = 1 to x style loop)
But I don’t think it does…
