New automation using variables?

Configuration
,
1

Hi everybody,

I have been using hard coded times for my climate automations in the past:

  - id: "heizung_az_morgens"
    alias: "[Heizung] AZ 07:45"
    trigger:
      - platform: time
        at: "07:45:00"
    condition:
      condition: state
      entity_id: input_boolean_az.fenster
      state: "off"
    action:
      - service: climate.set_temperature
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.arbeitszimmer_heizung_climate
          temperature: "{{ states('input_number.az_morgens') | float }}"

How much can I integrate variables to make this easier? I tried the following, but it is not working:

automation:
  - alias: "[Hei] AZ Morgens"
    trigger:
      - platform: time
        at: input_datetime.az_morgens
    variables:
      temperatur: input_number.az_morgens
      heizung: climate.arbeitszimmer_heizung_climate
    condition:
      condition: state
      entity_id: input_boolean.az_fenster
      state: "off"
    action:
      - service: climate.set_temperature
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.arbeitszimmer_heizung_climate
          temperature: "{{ states('temperatur') }}"
      - service: script.debugger

script.debugger will send a notification. When I remove the service: climate.set_temperature part, it will work. With that part there nothing happens.

What would be even better:

automation:
  - alias: "[Hei] AZ Morgens"
    variables:
      zeit: input_datetime.az_morgens
      temperatur: input_number.az_morgens
      heizung: climate.arbeitszimmer_heizung_climate
      fenster: input_boolean.az_fenster
    trigger:
      - platform: time
        at: "{{ zeit }}"
    condition:
      condition: state
      entity_id: "{{ fenster }}"
      state: "off"
    action:
      - service: climate.set_temperature
        data_template: # also tried `data` instead of `data_template`
          entity_id: "{{ heizung }}"
          temperature: "{{ temperatur }}"
      - service: script.debugger

If this last piece of code could work somehow, it would be so much easier to automate all this. I have one automation per climate entity each for the morning and evening; some rooms then also have an additional value for the morning and one for night time (all looking similar to the first piece of code I posted).

What do I need to change in order to make this work? Thank you for your help :slight_smile:

2

Don’t delimit the variable’s name with quotes because it changes its meaning from variable to string.

temperature: "{{ states(temperatur) }}"

1 Like
3

Thank you, it works now. It was both delimiting the variable’s name and that the particular entity I tried to control was not paired to the zigbee network at the time for some reason.

1 Like