Need help using Switch -Platform: template and input_boolean

Configuration
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I have an operational HA (been running over a year). I use AppDaemon to create screens to use 7" tablets as home controllers…that all works fine.

I am slowly changing from my Harmony Remote integration to using IPtoIR devices. That isn’t the problem.

Here is the area with trouble.

…and maybe my starting point is the problem…

I (after reading about 60 pages of forum entrys here and elsewhere) have decided to use input_boolean toggles as switches (so I can action based on the state and get a visual status on AppDaemon).

I have created scripts to do various control actions (power on/off right now…eventually select input etc)

I have created switches to read the input_boolean and call the appropriate script.

…and I added the ‘switches’ to my AppDaemon display…

I will list some code at the end…

Here is what works…the toggles through AppDaemon, I can confirm the correct action within the HA Settings>Entities etc… ie it says it was operated and state matches the AppDaemon button.

I can run the scripts directly from HA Settings>Entities ‘run’ and they work as expected…

Problem is that input_boolean toggle does not trigger a script…no errors, no log entries…just nothing.

So obviously I am missing a gigantic silly step…

most of configuration.yaml

default_config:
group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
remote: !include remote.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

switch:
  - platform: template
    switches:
      theater_mode:
        value_template: "{{ is_state('input_boolean.theater_mode', 'on') }}"
        turn_on:
          service: script.theater_mode_on
        turn_off:
          service: script.theater_mode_off

inside scripts.yaml

projector_power_on:
  alias: Projector On
  sequence:
  - service: remote.send_command
    target:
      entity_id: remote.projector
    data:
      command: 'ON'
  mode: single
theater_mode_on:
  alias: Everything On
  sequence:
  - service: script.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: script.projector_power_on
  - service: switch.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: switch.denon_power
  - service: switch.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: switch.dvdo_power
  - service: switch.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: switch.hub_receiver_power

automations.yaml is empty except for [] (I never edited it)
scenes.yaml is empty

I did the input_boolean editing within the HA webpage (Helpers)…not sure where that is stored. But on the HA webpage all the entries match what I have.

Hopefully I will figure it out…I am wondering if I need an automation to monitor those input_boolean statuses if if they change then call the script…but I am going with what other folks documented.

Mic

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Fixed…I think…

I am going to leave this open for a bit for any suggestions…

So the dumb mistake was I thought the 'Helpers" toggle was what I needed to ‘toggle’ to run stuff…

Actually those Input_Boolean devices are just place holders to track status

So all I had to do was use the “Switch” created in the configuration.yaml. However I did notice a problem in one of my switches, apparently the name was too long or maybe matched something else that I didn’t know about…So I had a missing switch that was fixed by shortening the name.

So now I am calling those generated ‘switches’ in the configuration.yaml that I made in my AppDaemon buttons.

I am slowly piecing stuff together, so some of the indicators are not tracking appropriately, but the buttons are properly activating the switches, and the switches are properly calling the scripts.