How do you execute an action input alongside other actions?

Configuration Blueprints
1

I’m working on a blueprint where I need to execute an input action as part of a sequence with actions in the blueprint.

As a minimal example:

blueprint:
  name: "Test: action after delay"
  domain: automation

  input:
    action1:
      name: Action after delay
      selector:
        action:

action:
  - delay: { seconds: 5 }
  - !input action1

This doesn’t work, of course, because !input action1 is an array, so when you try to save an automation this way you get the error:

Unable to determine action @ data[‘action’][1]

My workaround so far is to add a pointless if statement, just so I can use the then: parameter:

action:
  - delay: { seconds: 5 }
  - if: { condition: template, value_template: "{{ true }}" }
    then: !input action1

Is there a better way to do this?

2

I have used this…

3

That’s pretty much what I have; the key is having the action under a then: or something that takes a list of actions.

Do you know why you’re checking 'none', 'null', 'unavailable', ''? I’ve never seen those values be assigned to an action: selector, and I can’t find a way to make it happen. Perhaps an older HA version?

4

That’s just the undesirable ones. You can make your own list.‘Nothing’ could be interpeted as any of those, depending.

5

Hi Gregmac, did you ever find a better solution. I doing the same and it looks pointless.

6

did you ever find a better solution

Unfortunately not. I still have many automations with this.

7

I just use sequence or parallel

action:
  - sequence: !input action1