Help with configuration intent_script: variables, quotes, brackets... {{ }} ""() over MQTT to HA

Configuration
1

Hi guys,

I am struggling again with the syntax. And I cannot explain to myself why one config is working and the other’s not. Can you give me a hint please why its working the one way, but the other it’s not?

  1. This is the working one
intent_script:
  VacuumRoom:
    action:
      service: script.roborock_sauge_{{ room.replace("ü", "ue") }}

Basically rhasspy will send the “room” to HA and fills the variable with that. Then again via MQTT and a script the vacuum cleaner will be controlled to clean a specific room

  1. This one does not work
intent_script:
  VacuumRoom:
    action:
      data_template:
        entity_id: >
           script.{{ ("roborock_sauge_" + room.replace("ü", "ue")) }}
      service_template: >
          script.turn_on
  1. Ive tried it also this way, but this either did not work
intent_script:
  VacuumRoom:
    action:
      service: script.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: {{ ("script." + "roborock_sauge_" + room.replace("ü", "ue")) }}

Am I thinking in the wrong direction? With #1 I just use the script as a service itself. With #2-3 my guess was that I can enable the script this way. Or is this the mistake? If so, does it mean my syntax with the variables would be right?

Kind regards

fb

2

AFAIK, there is no such service as script.turn_on

Yes, there is. See below.

3

There most certainly is, and it has an effect on how the script is executed:

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4

The issue is that you are missing quotes around your single line template. Try this:

intent_script:
  VacuumRoom:
    action:
      service: script.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: '{{ ("script." + "roborock_sauge_" + room.replace("ü", "ue")) }}'
5

Hi

@koying There is. You can check yourself unter dev tools which are there. You will find even your own scripts at that place. There are really a damn lot :slight_smile:
@tom_l Awesome! That’s it. How can I know that the ‘’ are missing there? I’ve tried it even with #3, but here it’s not working. Can you explain me please why? Also especially why I don’t need to set the ‘’ in my working example?

Guess when I have it running in a better way I’ll share the configs. I can imagine there are other peeps out there who wan’t to controll their robot via cloudless voice commands :slight_smile:

Thanks you! :slight_smile:

cheers

fb

6

That I can’t explain. It really should be:

intent_script:
  VacuumRoom:
    action:
      service: 'script.roborock_sauge_{{ room.replace("ü", "ue") }}'

Read the templating docs, specifically this bit: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/templating/#important-template-rules

7

@tom_l Sorry, my fault. Your code is working like a charm.

I meant this example (#2)

intent_script:
  VacuumRoom:
    action:
      data_template:
        entity_id: >
           script.{{ ("roborock_sauge_" + room.replace("ü", "ue")) }}
      service_template: >
          script.turn_on

I tried it here as well with the ‘’ like

script.’{{ (“roborock_sauge_” + room.replace(“ü”, “ue”)) }}’
and even with
‘{{ (“script.” + “roborock_sauge_” + room.replace(“ü”, “ue”)) }}’
or
‘{{ (“script.roborock_sauge_” + room.replace(“ü”, “ue”)) }}’

8

Multi line templates should not be quoted and the use of data_template and service_template were depreciated in v0.115. Also you do not have a service template. And the extra brackets in your templates will mess up the entity ids. So that reduces your config to:

intent_script:
  VacuumRoom:
    action:
      service: script.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: >
           script.{{ "roborock_sauge_" + room.replace("ü", "ue") }}

Which is more correctly now done using target for the entity id.

intent_script:
  VacuumRoom:
    action:
      service: script.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: >
           script.{{ "roborock_sauge_" + room.replace("ü", "ue") }}

With the extra brackets you would have ended up with:

script.(roborock_sauge_someroom)

Which is not a valid script entity id.

9

Thank you for clarification! :+1: