Greeting with wait template

That’s just a more complex message template…

  - data_template:
      message: >
        {{ {
             'PERSON1': ('Sup bro', ...),
             'PERSON2': ('Sup sis', ...)
           }[person] | random }}

oh that’s awesome. I wasn’t aware I could make message templates like that. I’m going to leave the automations as you had previously suggested until I can dig in and test out the multi script approach. Thanks again for all your help!