Help me find the error of my ways with zigbee2mqtt and entities?

Configuration Zigbee
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Hello all!

Extremely new to HA and im realizing just how deep this pool I just jumped in is…

So I am attempting to setup my new Heiman HS2WD-E zigbee siren with my new installation of zigbee2mqtt. I have been following the instructions laid out in:

At one point in the article the author mentions to create 3 entities for Alarmo to reference. 2 for basic ON/OFF function and 1 to act as a toggle on the dashboard.

I am attempting to create a script using the YAML editor and inputting

#Turn ON the Heiman Siren Alarm 
alias: Heiman Siren Turn On
sequence:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: 'zigbee2mqtt/Main level alarm siren/set'
      payload: '{"warning": {"mode": burglar, "level": very_high, "strobe_level": high, "strobe": true, "strobe_duty_cycle": 10, "duration": 1800}}'
mode: single
icon: mdi:alarm-light-off

unfortunately When I try to save this script I get a error of “unable to determine action @ data[‘sequence’][0]”

Could someone please point out what is causing this error and where I can go to read up more about how to trouble shoot it on my own in the future? Like I said, still really new and trying to learn as best as I can, but I feel a bit in over my head to start with.

Thank so much for any help and pointers!

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Your siren doesn’t expose entities for those values? My Zigbee siren exposes all its parameters as entities, I just have scripts that set them to the values I want then turn it on. No MQTT required.

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No as far as I can tell they don’t seem to expose any entities… I can go into zigbee2mqtt and push a command that turns them on, but I can’t seem to find any other entities populated by the system. I was surprised by this, but again, can’t seem to find any real documentation supporting how it really should be…

4

Just copy/pasted and got no errors.

Note that your JSON is not valid, though. String values like burglar or very_high should be enclosed between double quotes.

5

THANK YOU! You solved a error that I didnt know I had. good lord it would have taken me forever to learn that. Turns out my issue was that I was going a bit too far through the script wizard before switching it to YAML… I feel like im gonna be learning for years to try and figure this out. Should probably start learning python beyond the extreme basics.

One last question, I am hoping to use this scrip to fire the same package to multiple sirens. My thinking is to copy the entire block between Sequence and Mode. Like this:

#Turn ON the Heiman Siren Alarm 
alias: Heiman Siren Turn On
sequence:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: 'zigbee2mqtt/Siren1/set'
      payload: '{"warning": {"mode": "burglar", "level": "very_high", "strobe_level": "high", "strobe": "true", "strobe_duty_cycle": 10, "duration": 1800}}'
sequence:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: 'zigbee2mqtt/Siren2/set'
      payload: '{"warning": {"mode": "burglar", "level": "very_high", "strobe_level": "high", "strobe": "true", "strobe_duty_cycle": 10, "duration": 1800}}'
mode: single
icon: mdi:alarm-light-off

There must be a more elegant way to format that, correct?

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The very first step would probably be to create an MQTT switch inside HA, rather than a plain MQTT publish

Then you could group them once and for all

Note that a siren is an actual entity type in HA, and that you could create MQTT base ones

Problem is that you cannot currently group them.

See Group Helper for Sirens for a feature request

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Awesome. Thanks for all the info, Ill start digging through those asap