Helpers and Triggers? Need assistance

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I’m just getting my feet wet with HA, and absolutely loving it…about two weeks in. Hopefully an easy answer, but my searching has come up dry…

Soooooo:
How do I change a Helper based on a triggered automation?

Background and desired effect:
I have an IR Blaster that turns on a little electric space heater (IR blaster is within HA). I understand they won’t officially be in sync, but when I use the blaster to turn on the heater I want it to toggle (true/false) the helper I built. I built an automation trigger for when the heater IR blaster is used, however I can’t figure out how to make the action “toggle helper”.

Also, quick side-note, not worthy of a topic, itself: the button to restart my server isn’t working. Can I restart HA with a terminal command?

Thanks future HA friends!

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On every “helper” (input_* that is) integration page is a list of provided services. For your input_boolean you have input_boolean.turn_on and input_boolean.turn_off.

Call the apropriate service in the action:part of your automation.

You might also try (instead of an automation) a template switch without value_template (which makes it optimistic).

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Look up the services for the type of helper you have made ( Integrations - Home Assistant. )

Do a config check. You likely have an invalid config.

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That could mean you have errors in your configuration.
You need to enable Advanced mode:

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Then this button should appear:
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