Hey all.
I am trying to have a varible entity_id input into the current state node. but i can’t figure out how.
According to the info for the node it says that i need to input payload.entity_id to change to entity_id wich is looked up.
But what do i need to specify in the entity_id filed in the node?
when i just try to put something else it just return the state of the entity_id put inside the node, and ignores the injected value.
Hope anybody out there can help, i am pulling my hair out.
Because of this commit and I just noticed it a couple of days ago when I ran into the same problem. If the current-state node has an entity id defined in the config you can’t override it with inputs.
I think I going to remove this because it is the only value that I know of that can’t be overwritten with an input value.
ok, so it isnt me who is a fool.
But if i just make {} in the entity_id is in the service node when you input into that i just a error that it cant be empty.
So as of now it isnt possible.
did you managed to solve this? i having the same problem
As of version 0.11.0 you should be able to overwrite the config entity_id from msg.payload.entity_id
I still can’t overwrite entity_id, I tried also to have a variable into the field like {{payload}} but won’t work
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Thanks. It’s working 