How to get the response variable from a conversation into a input_text

Configuration Voice Assistant
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Hi,

Just trying to let my Sonos tell me every evening a bedtime story which chatgpt is creating. Due to that this takes about 10-20sec to process I want to store the response into a text input helper (I already increased the maximum characters to store to 2000)

But unfortunately there is nothing stored into the text, I also get no warnings or errors. To confirm that it is generally working I added a notify to my Phone, which is working fine.

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Automation:

alias: ChatGPT Test
description: ""
trigger: []
condition: []
action:
  - service: conversation.process
    data:
      agent_id: bb818bce4388ebe27a8d54531d1e4d7d
      text: >-
        Tell me a random bedtime story
    response_variable: chatgpt
  - service: notify.mobile_app_s23ultra
    data:
      message: "Assist Reply: {{ chatgpt.response.speech.plain.speech }}"
    enabled: true
  - service: input_text.set_value
    target:
      entity_id: input_text.test
    data:
      value: "{{ chatgpt.response.speech.plain.speech | string }}"
mode: single
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An entity’s attributes can store up to 16Kb. I suggest you create a Trigger-based Template Sensor and store the response variable’s value in a custom attribute.

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Thanks, unfortunately the gui let you set a value greater than 255…

But your suggested solution is now working.

Thanks

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For future reference, when the form field’s title is displayed in red it indicates there’s a problem with the field’s value.

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Hello! First time poster and sorry for reviving a sort of old post but I’ve been wanting to do something similar. Would you mind giving me some kind of pointer as to what you did to fix this @heschdy? Not fully grasping @123s comment :slight_smile:

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I know this is old but came across it and it could help someone in the future if you’ve moved past it. I think the idea is to create a sensor which is updated by an event (I’ve called my event set_ai_response):

template:
  - trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: set_ai_response
    sensor:
      - name: AI Response
        state: "{{ now() }}"
        attributes:
          payload: "{{ trigger.event.data.payload }}"

And stick this in your configuration.yaml or other location where you have template sensors set up.

Then in you automation have a step that calls your event passing your response from the AI into the attribute (in my case called payload):

actions:
  - action: conversation.process
    metadata: {}
    data:
      text: |
        Check which presence and motion sensors are activated
      agent_id: conversation.google_generative_ai
    response_variable: ai_output
  - event: set_ai_response
    event_data:
      payload: "{{ ai_output.response.speech.plain.speech | string }}"

Included the conversation action first for context.

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