Help on automation template

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Hi folks! I don’t have a clie why this work

- id: 'pzem_004t_color'
  alias: PZEM-004T color
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    minutes: "/1"
  action:
    - service: light.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: light.pzem_004t
        brightness: 255
        rgb_color: [128,0,0]

…and this didn’t …

- id: 'pzem_004t_color'
  alias: PZEM-004T color
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    minutes: "/1"
  action:
    - service: light.turn_on
      data_template:
         entity_id: light.pzem_004t
         brightness: 255
         rgb_color: "[{{(states('input_number.power_test') | int / 6000*255) | int }},0,0]"

Obviously I’ve tried Jinja2 model template and it works… I’ve some like [128,0,0]

2

You can’t have data and data_template for the same service call, either one or the other. Remove the data block.

- id: 'pzem_004t_color'
  alias: PZEM-004T color
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    minutes: "/1"
  action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    data_template:
      entity_id: light.pzem_004t
      brightness: 255
      rgb_color: "[{{(states('input_number.power_test') | int / 6000*255) | int }},0,0]"
3

I’m sorry, I’ve made a mistake writing the post, now I’ve edited it with the right version…
So the problem is still here.

4

Any errors in the logs?
Can you please try changing the action part as below and show the persistent notification it creates.

action:
  - service: persistent_notification.create
    data_template:
       message: "[{{(states('input_number.power_test') | int / 6000*255) | int }},0,0]"
  - service: light.turn_on
    data_template:
       entity_id: light.pzem_004t
       brightness: 255
       rgb_color: "[{{(states('input_number.power_test') | int / 6000*255) | int }},0,0]"
5

Maybe I found the issue in the cast of the template, that it is be a string instead of a python list

I must be implement some like that

rgb_color: 
    - "{{ states('input_number.led_strip_r') | int }}"
    - "{{ states('input_number.led_strip_g') | int }}"
    - "{{ states('input_number.led_strip_b') | int }}"
6

Ah yes, I see know. Jinja templates always return a single string.

7

Your original rgb_color template is almost correct. You want YAML to interpret it as a list but by wrapping it all in double-quotes you’ve explicitly defined it to be a string. Remove the double-quotes on the outside and add them inside to delimit the actual template:

rgb_color: ["{{(states('input_number.power_test') | int / 6000*255) | int }}",0,0]

More info here.

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