Note however that your template will generate errors and possibly stop your automation actions if something other than a 1 or 2 is received (the else case). A service must be supplied, it can not be null. You could put a script in there that just does a 1 second delay (scripts are services).
Though you might be better off with a choose action where you don’t have to supply an else case.
Ah. Thank you for pointing that out. I will amend accordingly.
I was wondering, what would a good way be to control multiple entities from the single automation that detects a change in analog1?
For example, as I start to implement this properly, it would look more like:
service: >
# bedroom keypad button 1
{% if is_state('input_text.analog1', '2101') %}
media_player.bedroom.media_play
# bedroom keypad button 12
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2112') %}
media_player.bedroom.media_stop
# dining keypad button 1
{% if is_state('input_text.analog1', '2601') %}
media_player.dining.media_play
# dining keypad button 12
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2612') %}
media_player.dining.media_stop
{% else %}
script.delay1s
{% endif %}
I understand the above syntax won’t work, but it illustrates what I want to achieve, but I don’t quite know what the syntax would look like. It would be really nice if the above code does work though 
Your dining keypad if statement needs to be an elif statement and you have to be careful with comments in templates, put them in {# #} but other than that this will work:
service: >
{# bedroom keypad button 1 #}
{% if is_state('input_text.analog1', '2101') %}
media_player.bedroom.media_play
{# bedroom keypad button 12 #}
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2112') %}
media_player.bedroom.media_stop
{# dining keypad button 1 #}
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2601') %}
media_player.dining.media_play
{# dining keypad button 12 #}
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2612') %}
media_player.dining.media_stop
{% else %}
script.delay1s
{% endif %}
For your else case script you could replace the delay script with a more useful notification:
script:
invalid_key:
sequence:
- service: notify.notify # replace with your messaging service
data:
message: "Invalid key number received: {{ states('input_text.analog1') }}"
Probably, it is using to_json before setting the value.
You may use from_json to get that value.
Something like
{{ states('input_text.analog1') | from_json == 1 }}
Thanks. This particular issue is already solved.
media_player.bedroom.media_play
media_player.dining.media_play
These sorts of calls don’t seem to work. I haven’t really spent much time trying to figure it out though.
The previous code works when this is included, but then I can’t target multiple players.
target:
entity_id: media_player.dining
Ah, ok. You have to template the service and the entity separately.
service: >
{# bedroom keypad button 1 #}
{% if is_state('input_text.analog1', '2101') %}
media_player.media_play
{# bedroom keypad button 12 #}
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2112') %}
media_player.media_stop
{# dining keypad button 1 #}
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2601') %}
media_player.media_play
{# dining keypad button 12 #}
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2612') %}
media_player.media_stop
{% else %}
script.delay1s
{% endif %}
target:
entity_id: >
{# bedroom keypad button 1 #}
{% if is_state('input_text.analog1', '2101') %}
media_player.bedroom
{# bedroom keypad button 12 #}
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2112') %}
media_player.bedroom
{# dining keypad button 1 #}
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2601') %}
media_player.dining
{# dining keypad button 12 #}
{% elif is_state('input_text.analog1', '2612') %}
media_player.dining
{% else %}
script.delay1s
{% endif %}
Now you really have to make sure the else case never happens with conditions. As the script service for the else case does not accept a target.
Ahh, I see. I am really very very grateful for the pointers. I am not sure how long it would have taken for me to figure this out! YAML syntax is really strange for me to wrap my head around.
I will report back after I have some time to test this.
You can use a condition like this:
condition:
condition: template
value_template: "{{ states('input_text.analog1') in ['2101', '2112', '2601', '2612'] }}"
Currently I have the script as:
alias: delay1s
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_s
data:
message: "KP Pressed, else event:: {{ states('input_text.analog1') }}"
mode: single
This works great whilst I am trying to program up the system, but in the end I just want to log the events in the Logbook. How can I modify that to log to the generic built-in logbook? I did play around with this a little but there is not much documentation on this from what I could find.
This works perfectly. Thank you so very much.
Got it, thank you
alias: delay1s
sequence:
- service: logbook.log
data:
name: KP Else Event
message: "KP Pressed, else event:: {{ states('input_text.analog1') }}"
mode: single