Global variable for user-defined values?

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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):

Storing secrets

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

Trigger based template sensor to store global variables

This was posted earlier here. I’ve added some improvements, mostly to avoid errors, and also added some additional stuff suggested by @erkr in this post It can happen you want to store some data to use it in another automation, or make sure it’s still available after a restart of HA. You can use helpers for that (eg and input_text entity) but these are limited in which types you can store, and they can be easily edited in the GUI. The configuration below creates a trigger based templates senso…