How to pass data to script which then passes through to a service?

Configuration
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Hi there HA community!
2nd post here ever!

Question about passing data through a script to a service.

I have a service which is working fine to send SMS in my configuration.yaml

rest_command:
  telynx_sms:
    url: https://sms.telnyx.com/messages
    method: POST
    headers:
      x-profile-secret: eVWm*******************DCtuF7L
      accept: 'application/json, text/html'
    payload: '{"from": "+15*************3","to": "{{ number }}","body": "{{message}}"}'
    content_type:  'application/json; charset=utf-8'
    verify_ssl: true

This makes a REST call to telynx to send SMS to phones

I’d like to be able to have a script that I can pass the message to that has 3 or 4 calls in it to the service passing the same message to multiple numbers.

I have created scripts in the scripts.yaml that look like this that work:

trash_monday_01:
  alias: TrashMonday01
  sequence:
  - data:
      message: 'Monday Night!  Trash needs to go to curb by 9pm please!! :-) There will be 2 more. --from Dad'
      number: '+1510****427'
    service: rest_command.telynx_sms
  - data:
      message: 'Monday Night!  Trash needs to go to curb by 9pm please!! :-) There will be 2 more. --from Dad'
      number: '+1510****300'
    service: rest_command.telynx_sms
  - data:
      message: message: 'Monday Night!  Trash needs to go to curb by 9pm please!! :-) There will be 2 more. --from Dad'
      number: '+1510****309'
    service: rest_command.telynx_sms
  - data:
      message: message: 'Monday Night!  Trash needs to go to curb by 9pm please!! :-) There will be 2 more. --from Dad'
      number: '+1510****395'
    service: rest_command.telynx_sms

However what I’d like to be able to do is pass the message to the script that then gets passed to the service so I don’t have to have a script for every one of those.

Something like (this is the part I’m not sure about):

group_sms_trash_reminder:
  alias: groupTrashReminder
  sequence:
     - data:
      message: '{{message}}'
      number: '+1510****427'
    service: rest_command.telynx_sms

     - data:
      message: '{{message}}'
      number: '+1510****300'
    service: rest_command.telynx_sms

     - data:
      message: '{{message}}'
      number: '+1510****309'
    service: rest_command.telynx_sms
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group_sms_trash_reminder:
  alias: groupTrashReminder
  sequence:
    - data_template:
        message: '{{message}}'
        number: '+1510****427'
      service: rest_command.telynx_sms

    - data_template:
        message: '{{message}}'
        number: '+1510****300'
      service: rest_command.telynx_sms

    - data_template:
        message: '{{message}}'
        number: '+1510****309'
      service: rest_command.telynx_sms
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When I tried it that way I got errors during config check?

4

ohhh NM I see the difference. I’ll give that a shot. Thanks!

5

You rock!! Working exactly as needed now. Thanks for the assist! :slight_smile:

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