Something I feel that is missing in HA is the ability to have a script or automation action continue with additional code even after a condition = false. If we could have nested blocks of code where the condition only applies to that block and the script / automation could continue afterwards, that would be a massive game changer for HA. Currently we can only have one condition in an action = false and the script / automation stops. This is rather limiting.
logic example:
service_1:
service_2:
condition_1:
service_3: # this service to be based on condition_1
service_4: # this service to occur irrelevant of condition_1
condition_2:
service_5: # this service to be based on condition_2
service_6: # this service to be based on condition_2
service_7: # this service to occur irrelevant of condition_1 or condition_2
The idea being that we could use indentation or some other means to signify which services are controlled by which conditions and any code after that with no indentation would continue.
Have you thought about sending the possibly blocking condition into its own script?
This way the automation can run through all the services but the conditions are evaluated in their own independent scripts and don’t block the other services.
Not as clean as your request, but its a way to make it work with the current version.
Another option would be to use a service template. If the condition is true one service if its false run a different service (one that wont error out but doesn’t actually do anything meaningful)
I think the service_template is a good work-around for now as I would rather not have to turn 1 script into many, still not as neat as the nested concept. Hopefully this can gain enough votes for dev attention…
