Is it possible to get entity_id's from a group?

Configuration
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Is it possible to get all the entity_id’s inside a group? I tried:

{% set entity_ids = states.group.living_room.attributes.entity_id %}

and

{% set entity_ids = states('group.living_room.attributes.entity_id') %}

Anyone else have ideas how to accomplish this?

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Would a loop serve your needs?


{% for item in states.group.living_room.entity_id %}
{{ item }}
{% endfor %}

Remember that you can test these in the template dev tool.

3

Where is this dev tool? I’ve been bashing my head on the keyboards with these scripts because I cannot see the state of objects

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Bottom of the left sidebar of the UI. A template debugger, a list of states, a services/API tool… Take a look at this (specifically, “The dev tools are your friend”)

5

Thanks! Always wondered what that last page was. At first glance it doesn’t look like an editor.

6

in templating editor, writing “unknown” for

    {% for item in states('group.all_lights.attributes.entity_id') %}
       {{ item }}
    {% endfor %}

does anyone have any idea?

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Use states.group.all_lights.attributes.entity_id

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Is it possible to list all the entities of the group in service call?
Something like this (HA throws error):

script:
  test:
    sequence:
      service: camera.snapshot
      data_template:
        entity_id: "{% for item in states.group.cams.attributes.entity_id %}{{ item }},{% endfor %}"
        filename: "/Data/cams/{{ entity_id.name }}.jpg"
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I’m not sure what you are trying to do there. Jinja is pretty limited with for loops with home assistant. Value templates typically require 1 output value. That basically makes using {{ value }} in a for loop useless.

For your case, you’ll need to create a separate script for each one of those cams. this is wrong now