Global variable for user-defined values?

Configuration
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I think the solution isn’t as straightforward, but there has to be some workaround.
I currently have 7 scripts based on the same blueprint, with the same variables:

 variables:
   previous_time: >
     {% set time = states('input_datetime.previous_script_end') %} {{ time[:8] }}
   start_time: !input start_time
   end_time: !input end_time
   steps_per_minute: !input steps_per_minute
   start_kelvin: !input start_kelvin
   end_kelvin: !input end_kelvin
   start_bright: !input start_bright
   end_bright: !input end_bright
   manual_override: !input manual_override
   reminder_continue_change: !input reminder_continue_change
   duration: >
     {% set start = strptime(start_time, '%H:%M:%S') %} {% set end =
     strptime(end_time, '%H:%M:%S') %} {% if start > end %}
       {% set end = end + timedelta(days=1) %}
     {% endif %} {{ (end - start).total_seconds() / 60 }}
   intervals: "{{ duration * steps_per_minute | int }}"
   step_kelvin: "{{ ((end_kelvin - start_kelvin) / intervals) }}"
   step_bright: "{{ ((end_bright - start_bright) / intervals) }}"

Now I want to retrieve some of the values (start_time, end_time, start_kelvin, start_bright, steps_per_minute) outside of the scripts.
To solve this, I created 3 helpers for each script (helper_start_kelvin, helper_start_bright and helper_start_time).
This obviously is not ideal.
For start_time, I’m trying to acomplish an automation that finds the start time that is closest to the current time and then runs the script that is associated with that start_time.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this and make this more efficient?

2

That is unfortunately the “official” way to do it. Two other options:

Store values in secrets.yaml (if you don’t need to change them on the fly):

Use this nifty template entity sensor to store/recall global variables:

3

Could a macro be used?
I have never tried.

4

Hello Elise,

Aside from the ones mentioned already You can make helpers as well.
I use the template mentioned and helpers myself.
For blueprints that I share I sometimes do MQTT topics to store stuff in so that the user doesn’t have to create a helper.