How do you setup If Button Press'd It Exits a Script

Configuration
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currently i dabling with a Ardunio with a Servo since Rpi Home assistant and a Servo Doesnt work

so i have a button on Ardunino that turns on and off Servo… i hooked it up to Rpi so it can control a Control Pin and a Status Pin

so its a Arduino Uno hooked to a RPi 4 to monitor things… now i have a script that simulates button press of a momentary switch so it does… button press delay .5 button press delay 60 (for now testing using 1 min) button press delay.5 button press

so it simulates you pressing the button to open a valve it delays 1 min then it buton press’s again to shut off

the issue i find is how can if the Script is running but if i Hit the Button it should Cancel the script …
right now what it does is if the script is running… i hit the button to basiclly cancel the script… and then by the minute is done the script is running again well because it does a button press

how do i set up the Script that when Change State of the Binary_sensory gpio if it sees a change

it will CTRL +C the script how do you do that? so if script is running i press the button… the button state has changed… so Force End script
how do you do that?

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this is my script… and i want it to be killed if a state change from ON to OFF for the one gpio

or if i change the whole setup to run on the PI that the Relay would shut off by a button press


 
Icon
The mode controls what happens when script is invoked while it is still running from one or more previous invocations. Check the script documentation for more info.

Mode
Single (default)
Sequence
The sequence of actions of this script.

Learn more about available actions.
 
Action type
Call service
 
Service
switch.turn_on
 
Name(s) of entities to turn on
switch.servo
Service data
1
​
  
Action type
Delay
 
Delay
1
  
Action type
Call service
 
Service
switch.turn_off
 
Name(s) of entities to turn off.
switch.servo
Service data
1
​
  
Action type
Delay
 
Delay
60
  
Action type
Call service
 
Service
switch.turn_on
 
Name(s) of entities to turn on
switch.servo
Service data
1
​
  
Action type
Delay
 
Delay
1
 
Action type
Call service
 
Service
switch.turn_off
 
Name(s) of entities to turn off.
switch.servo
Service data
1
​

so what i want is if the script is running and you press button it cancels the script. it sees the sensor from ON to OFF

or if the Sensor is ON already and the script comes on it doesnt get cancelled so the script will start with the sensor OFF or ON but when button is pressed it cancels the script

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Can you give us the yaml Iinstead?
Why not have an automation that triggers on the boolean?

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im still new to home assistant
so you need to explain it so someone new would understand

i also plan to make this Rpi a secondary home assistant… id like to run a main home assistant that connects to this one… but ya this is the current yami

my configuration yami is

switch:

  • platform: rpi_gpio
    ports:
    23: Servo

binary_sensor:

  • platform: rpi_gpio
    invert_logic: false
    ports:
    24: Water_Position

so the water postion is just a High or Low arduino sends to say if the Water Valve operated by a servo is open or closed and “servo” is just wire to simulate you pressing a Momemtary switch

and can i change words for Enity Card. for On and Off?
i want to change ON to Open and Off To Closed to better display a Valve Open Closed not On or Off

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so i tried googling and came up with some stuff… i tried couple examples and it didnt work… also i dont understand this template stuff either… wish there was a detailed video on each component so i can understand how it works trying to figure it out from the limited examples of each componenet name doesnt help someone with learning disability as i a visual learner. … but this herei tried the alias but didnt work either…

switch:

  • platform: rpi_gpio
    ports:
    23: Servo

binary_sensor:

  • platform: rpi_gpio
    invert_logic: false
    ports:
    24: water_position

binary_sensor.water_position:
sensor_class: opening
alias_on: ‘Open’
alias_off: ‘Closed’

homeassistant:
customize:
binary_sensor.water_sensor:
friendly_name: ‘Basement Door’
device_class: door

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so how would i do it?

i want like an Emergency Button … you hit it and it kills the Script
i dont understand “templates” “covers” etc i havent found a video that explains in detail of these and brakes it down so any 5 yr old can understand… so i wanted it simplified

but basiclly i have that Status and i want it 1
to change from ON OFF to OPEN and Closed
and if Script is running and STATE changes from OPEN to Closed
that it kills the script

as right now to simulate a button
i do
ON
OFF
Delay
On
OFF

in the script so
ON
OFF
simulates me pressing a Momentary switch in and then releasing

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still havent figured it out myself… is there no simple way
to kill a script by a button state change when a script is running?

and i still need to get that toggle switch renamed from ON to Open

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service: script.turn_off
entity_id: script.YOUR_SCRIPT
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ok thanks i had to google how do that … i didnt know thats another script and then i made an automation

2 other questions… i think the 2nd one cant be done

  1. how do i change the ON OFF state for Binsary Sensor to Open Closed… or any name i want…

  2. i have the Scheduler plugin … is there a way when a an Scheduled Event is running…that if my emergency stop button is hit… that timer is disabled…

i have an idea i gonna try with and statement.
still learning this stuff

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guess i cant do that 2nd one…
i need 1 Script with 2 IF statements

since scheduler plugin runs 1 script
i need a script to run as
-If Switch ON and Schedular Runs dont toggle switch else Toggle Switch
-Delay

  • If Switch Is Still On Then Toggle Switch Else Just Exit script

i guess you cant have 2 IF statements to do 2 different things… from 1 Call Service

reason being i use a Momentary Switch to turn on and off a valve from a physical location and with home assistant i need to exit out of scheduler too

but i dont think i can do it

if i sould confusing sorry i have dislexia it sounds ok in my head not always explained right

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The actual state will always be on/off but you can have it display as open/closed by setting the device_class to door.

I can’t help with the scheduler questions, I’ve never used it, sorry.

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ok ill google that device class as i dont know how to set this easily

and thats ok. you helped with the other one… i had to google it and found that is a call service script
i still havent found a good video that explains everything im simplistic form… still havent seen a video to explain templates etc…

and doesnt help i use a Mometary Switch to control my project i guess if i used a toggle would been better for Home assistant to work with…
but slowly learning it…

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@anon43302295
i having tough time… i google and i try to follow peoples examples but when i run the test configuration it always fails

its the same with the examples of the docs.
always confuses me it doesnt tell me you need to add this line to configuration.yaml
or automations.yaml
or i found scripts /automation section you can add yaml configuration

so i never know know as i also trying to get Modem Caller ID to work it doesnt tell me exactly place this code here place this code exactly in this file.

is there an actual Step By Step instructions how do do this

i looked at Button Card love lace but it seems i guess thats just an add on you still need to get this ahead of the game

i wish it was user friendly for a dumb bum to understand like simplisitic

but ill keep googling was hoping some good simple videos explainings a 5 yr old could understand well maybe 10 but something easy

instead of people only posting like 5 lines of there code but doesnt say where you place it what you gotta do ahead of time. etc

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The problem is that where to paste the code depends on how you have chosen to split up your configuration.

Basically, when homeassistant starts it combines all of your configuration files in to one big ‘document’ that it uses to apply your configuration.

So, if you so choose, you could just use one big configuration.yaml, but of course this gets disorderly very quickly, so we use things like packages, !include and !include_dir_named so that we can split the configuration into manageable chunks. Then the system merges these files back into the single ‘document’ based on the type of splitting method you declared.

So basically when someone posts an automation, they don’t say which file you should put it in because they don’t know. Depending on your configuration it could go directly in configuration.yaml, or it could go in automations.yaml, or it could go in a file called bob.yaml in an included directory, or it could go in a package…

Homeassistant is very very very very flexible, which is great because it makes it powerful, but it makes it hard to do ‘step by step’ instructions because everyone’s configuration is completely different.

All I can suggest is to read the documentation about how yaml is used by homeassistant (the getting started bits, not the integrations) and try to get your head round that first. One day it will just ‘click’ and then when you see a snippet of code that you want to use, you’ll know how to apply it to your specific configuration.

On a mobile the list of all the documents is at the bottom of the page, I think on a desktop they’re down the right hand side. But work your way through them as best you can. That is to say this list of documents…

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… and all the ones that are below

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@anon43302295
ah ok ill try it
it gets confusing at times and i get frustrated
because when you goto Automation and post the yami it doesnt like it…
if i edit an card entity it will tell me no you cant do it… tells you off
if i post in the configuration yami and check it it tells me no good… or if i have the Visual Code Editor it doesnt like things

like I trying do Caller ID… but the Caller ID info is outdate it doesnt work period
there is no “sudo” there is no “usermod”
the yami. i posted it in the automations.yami and when you check configurations it hates it
load up the visual code editor… and its all in red as it doesnt work
and dont see how you edit the Initialization strings for modems
i had a post about caller ID before no one replied maybe you can help
cuz i stuck… i got my modem plugged in i ran did this
Modem Caller ID - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)

and my outcome is
my automation.yami

automation
automation2545×1397 227 KB

check configuration button

Error loading /config/configuration.yaml: while scanning for the next token
found character '%' that cannot start any token
in "/config/automations.yaml", line 38, column 80

my configuration yami

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
#modem: !include modem.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

homeassistant:
  customize: !include customize.yaml
  
weather:
  - platform: environment_canada

sensor:
  - platform: modem_callerid
    device: /dev/ttyACM0
    
  - platform: dht
    scan_interval: .01
    name: "Outside"
    sensor: DHT11
    pin: 18
    #    temperature_offset: -9
    #    humidity_offset: -3.2
    monitored_conditions:
      - temperature
      - humidity





switch:
  - platform: rpi_gpio
    #    invert_logic: true
    ports:
      23: Water Valve

binary_sensor:
  - platform: rpi_gpio
    invert_logic: false
    ports:
      24: water_position

and i thought modem: !include modem.yami
would worked like the other names but it didnt like that… but ill look up that info

ya right now past couple months i been bashing my head off the wall and the Node Red its not as simplie as the youtube videos so i step away from it for a week or so as i wish i had someone beside me telling me showing or taking live questions you ask what your question is and t hen someone live could explain it… it be nice…
as i want those fancy Squares not the plain ones but i not there yet lol still dealing wth code issues and learn the node red

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Very short reply just focusing on a couple of issues, but the main reason your automations.yaml isn’t working is because you have

automation:

At the top of it. As I said earlier everything gets merged. In your configuration.yaml you have this

automation: !include automations.yaml

Now when that gets merged it will add the contents of automations.yaml, currently resulting in

automation:
  automation:
    - [YOUR FIRST AUTOMATION]

Which is invalid. What you want it to do after merge is

automation:
  - [YOUR FIRST AUTOMATION]

So you need to remove the automation: line from the top of automations.yaml.

There looks to be a problem with the template on line 38 too, the errors after that are probably related to the config checker not determining the template on line 38 properly so expecting the things after it to be different.

As for

modem: !include modem.yaml

There is no modem component. The word before the colon at the far left edge of configuration.yaml is the declaration of the component (tts, automation, sensor etc), it’s not just something that you randomly make up.

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@anon43302295
ah ok well what i did was just click the Copied Icon and you copy the text and then paste it
and if i paste it in configuration skip the automation.yami then it fails too
and if i remove automation: in the automation
then it creates more errors with -alias: it gives me indentation problems it says or
bad indentations
or action required depending on how you type it

maybe you can try it but ok

and ya i didnt know aboutr making your own yamis
i guess it goes as customize… !include

but ya all i did for the modem you see i just copy and pasted the yami there is no instructions not to include automation:

and if u put in configuration it still gives errors

but i only read a little from ur link so ill read more tonight as i stilll want to change that ON off to Open Closed figured 5 min fix takes days to read to get there lol