Looking for best practices and template efficiency advices (simple example: alert on rain when windows are open)

[Didgeridrew]

@elzorro

Can I control the automation from within the alert? (maybe the question is - can an action/automation be considered as a notifier)

In Alert call script via notify

Since you haven’t shared your script, I don’t know if this approach will work for you, but this is how I use alerts with scripted logic. Instead of using a REST notifier, I use a notify group with an empty set as the value of services. Alerts can be targeted at that notifier, and an automation can be triggered off the service call event created by the alert. notify: - platform: group name: scripted_alerts services: [] alert: whirlpool_temperatur: name: Die Temperatur des Whir…