Need help creating a string for text-to-speech based on entity states

[123 (Taras)]

The Jinja2 template will be something like this:

{% set textToSay = '' %}
{% if is_state('cover.garage_door', 'open') %}
  {% set textToSay = textToSay ~ 'Close the garage door. ' %}
{% endif %}
{% if is_state('binary_sensor.back_door', 'on') %}
  {% set textToSay = textToSay ~ 'Close the back door. ' %}
{% endif %}
{{ textToSay if textToSay | length > 0 else 'All clear.' }}

If you have many doors, there is a way to simply way to list all open doors within a single sentence.

Doors open?

This template will do what you want. Simply replace the list of binary_sensors with your own. {% set doors = expand('binary_sensor.front_door', 'binary_sensor.rear_door', 'binary_sensor.garage_door') | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on') | map(attribute='name') | list %} {% set qty = doors | count %} {% set p1 = 'are' if qty > 1 else 'is' %} {% if qty == 0 %} No doors are open. {% else %} {{' and '.join((doors | join(', ')).rsplit(', ', 1))}} {{p1}} open. {% endif %} The templa…

The only added complexity for your application is that one of the doors is a cover as opposed to a binary_sensor.