I had some problems trying to toggle all lights in an area in an “intelligent” manner, like the group switch within Lovelace.
By that I mean turn all lights off if any or all lights are on, otherwise turn them all on.
Thought about choosing the specific entities but I think I came up with a better way with the following script (Home Assistant Script For Intelligent Toggle: If any or all lights in an area are on, turns all lights in that area off, else turn them all on. · GitHub):
intelligent_toggle:
alias: Intelligent Toggle
fields:
target_area:
name: Target Area
description: "The area to toggle"
example: "downstairs"
sequence:
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: |
{% set ns = namespace(out=false) %}
{% set ns.out = false %}
{% set target_area_l = target_area | lower %}
{%- for state in states if not ns.out-%}
{%- set entity=state.entity_id-%}
{%- set area=area_name(state.entity_id)|lower-%}
{%- set domain=state.domain-%}
{% if area==target_area_l and domain=="light" and states(entity) == "on"%}
{% set ns.out = true %}
{% endif %}
{%- endfor -%}
{{ns.out}}
then:
- service: light.turn_off
data: {}
target:
area_id: '{{target_area|lower}}'
else:
- service: light.turn_on
data: {}
target:
area_id: '{{target_area|lower}}'
mode: single
Seems to work. Let me know if this is useful for you, or if there are improvements to be made/issues with it’s implementation: I’m new to Home Assistant!
I guess one thing that confused me is that the light.turn_* services expect the area_id to be lower case, whilst it is returned capitalised from the area_name(state.entity_id) . Sprinkling of | lower made this robust, but is that right? How should i understand the capitalisation of areas?