How to use variables in HA

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

Hello Christopher C. Mills,

You may make too many assumptions…

Helpers can be used anywhere and any scope.

Also this:

Trigger based template sensor to store global variables

This was posted earlier here. I’ve added some improvements, mostly to avoid errors, and also added some additional stuff suggested by @erkr in this post It can happen you want to store some data to use it in another automation, or make sure it’s still available after a restart of HA. You can use helpers for that (eg and input_text entity) but these are limited in which types you can store, and they can be easily edited in the GUI. The configuration below creates a trigger based templates senso…

Also the MQTT trick I use above.