Multiple "Get Template" in the same flow?

martikainen · January 24, 2019, 6:50pm

Hi

I implemented some flows a while back which has 2 “Get Templates” in it, and everything seemed to work. Yesterday I created a new one and couldn’t get it to work, so I started troubleshooting it and found out that my previous flows wasn’t working as intended.

When executing this flow with 2 “Get Template” the payload from the first template seems to overrun the second check.

The first check is true, but the second one is false, but as you can see in the debug window I get 2 “True” results.
What do I need to do to use 2 or more of the “Get Template”?

Here’s the code if you wanna try it yourself

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martikainen · January 24, 2019, 7:11pm

Oh and maybe I should give you some context.

This is all for controlling the lights based on doors, motion sensors and “manual” overrides.

When light.garage turns on start the flow
Wait 250 seconds
First Get Template checks if the state for Motion sensor X hasn’t changed for the last 240 seconds
If True, check if the state for motion sensor Y hasn’t changed for the last 240 seconds
If True, turn off the lights since there is no one left in the garage.
If any of 4 or 5 is false I’m using looptimer to wait for 30 seconds then check again.

Maybe there’s a better way of doing this? Here’s a bad print of a flow which can be triggered by 2 motion sensors. This was the one i thought was working but apparently isn’t, it ignores the “number 3” check. Sorry for the swedish, but I think you understand what it does anyway

martikainen · January 24, 2019, 11:39pm

user @Chapapa at Discord found a solution as he had the same issue.
But if someone knows a cleaner way of doing this, please let me know

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Kermit · January 25, 2019, 6:21am

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