Looping to generate MQTT.publish commands to a group of entities?

[tom_l]

You can only template the value part of a key: value pair. You have both keys and values in your template.

I believe the usual solution to this is to use a python script or use AppDaemon.

Here’s an example of a python script.

Repeating a service (or script)?

Easily done with the python_script integration. church_bells.py service_data = {'entity_id':'media_player.alex_s_echo_dot', 'media_content_type':'sound', 'media_content_id':'amzn_sfx_church_bell_1x_02'} for i in range(10): hass.services.call('media_player', 'play_media', service_data, False) time.sleep(2) Adjust sleep(2) to the number of seconds needed to allow for the playing of the media content. Automation simply becomes this: - alias: 'The house was flooded with water notification' …

Though the script syntax has been updated with quite a few repeat functions. There may be a way to use them:

Script Syntax