Grouping sensors that report non-numeric data

[Sourcer63 (Johannes)]

Thank you for your input:

@mekaneck

If you don’t want to list out your entities manually in the triggers, here would be the 4 template triggers you can use:

That is more elegant as one can simply add or remove entities to the label group.

@mekaneck

Here’s what I think you should have for your code:

  actions:
    - choose:
        - conditions:
            - condition:  
              value_template: "{{ label_entities('Bad/WC') | select('is_state', ['open','on']) | list | count > 0}}"

This would still not work. What is missing is a template behind condition:

            - condition:  template
              value_template: "{{ label_entities('Bad/WC') | select('is_state', ['open','on']) | list | count > 0}}"

With this addition the actions ffinally execute.

Many thanks for your help! I believe I mostly got it now

[mekaneck (Rick Auch)]

@Sourcer63

What is missing is a template behind condition:

Good catch! Sorry I missed that.

@Sourcer63

That is more elegant as one can simply add or remove entities to the label group.

You might consider removing the last condition of your choose block and moving the actions to a default block. If neither of the first two conditions had a match then this should be the only alternative. Additionally, adding or removing entities from the label group would break your current logic because the count would no longer == 6.

[Sourcer63 (Johannes)]

@mekaneck

You might consider removing the last condition of your choose block

I had already realized that the check is not necessary and removed it.