How to use variables in HA

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

That certainly works, but if you are trying to package up a blueprint and have everything self-contained for the user to turn on, my way works better.

[freeDom-1 (Dominik)]

I dont know why no one is telling you this, but you can actually use global variables in jinja by explicitly defining the scope:

{%- set g = namespace(test_var = 1) %}
{{ g.test_var }}
{% some for loop %}
{% set g.test_var = g.test_var + 1 %}
{% endfor %}
{{ g.test_var }}

[petro]

@freeDom-1

I dont know why no one is telling you this, but you can actually use global variables in jinja by explicitly defining the scope:

And that’s not the scope issues that OP was running into. namespace only solves scoping issues inside a single template. OP was attempting to use variables defined in action sections that were not in scope of the action section they were in.