One button to toggle between two switches

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Hello Gents,

I would like to have a single switch which when clicked it trigger a specific switch and when clicked again triggers another switch…
Is this doable ? I need it to toggle between two switches entities like on/off

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Call this script from a button tap action:

toggle_two_switches:
  sequence:
    - choose:
        - conditions:
            - condition: state
              entity_id: switch.switch_1
              state: 'on'
          sequence:
            - service: switch.turn_off
              entity_id: switch.switch_1
            - service: switch.turn_on
              entity_id: switch.switch_2
      default:
        - service: switch.turn_on
          entity_id: switch.switch_1
        - service: switch.turn_off
          entity_id: switch.switch_2

See here for more: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/scripts#choose-a-group-of-actions

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A variation of tom_I’s approach, employing templates:

toggle_two_switches:
  sequence:
    - variables:
        first_is_on:  "{{ is_state('switch.switch_1', 'on') }}"
    - service: switch.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: "switch.{{ 'switch_2' if first_is_on else 'switch_1' }}"
    - service: switch.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: "switch.{{ 'switch_1' if first_is_on else 'switch_2' }}"
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4

thanks @123
What about if I want to apply this toggle on two automation triggers?

5

You are going to have to explain better what you mean by that.

6

What if i want to toggle between two automations
For example the first automation is set to change the scene to movie time and when clicked again change to day time lighting

7

So you want to enable or disable two automations with the toggle button?

You just replace the switch entity ids with automation ids and use the homeassistant.turn_on / off service instead of switch.turn_on / off. Like this:

toggle_two_automations:
  sequence:
    - variables:
        day_is_on:  "{{ is_state('automation.day_time_lighting', 'on') }}"
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: "automation.{{ 'movie_lighting' if day_is_on else 'day_time_lighting' }}"
    - service: homeassistant.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: "automation.{{ 'day_time_lighting' if day_is_on else 'movie_lighting' }}"
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Wow that was helpful, but i guess i did something wrong. I put the below in a script, Any idea why this error is showing "Message malformed: extra keys not allowed @ data[‘toggle_two_automations’]
"

toggle_two_automations:
  sequence:
    - variables:
        day_is_on: '{{ is_state(''automation.ha_automation_daylight'', ''on'') }}'
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: >-
          automation.{{ 'ha_automation_daylight' if day_is_on else 'netflix_movies_automation'
          }}
    - service: homeassistant.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: >-
          automation.{{ 'netflix_movies_automation' if day_is_on else 'ha_automation_daylight'
          }}
mode: single
9

What is the full error text?

10

Quotes in the variable and the targets are different from the example given above ?

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Below is a screenshot

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As a first, indent mode to be on the same level as sequence

13

Please can you check the updated below:

*Message malformed: extra keys not allowed @ data[‘toggle_automation’]

toggle_automation:
  sequence:
    - variables:
        day_is_on: '{{ is_state(''automation.ha_automation_daylight'', ''on'') }}'
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: >-
          automation.{{ 'ha_automation_daylight' if day_is_on else
          'netflix_movies_automation' }}
    - service: homeassistant.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: >-
          automation.{{ 'netflix_movies_automation' if day_is_on else
          'movie_lighting' }}
  mode: single
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Can you try this YAML?

alias: Toggle Automation
sequence:
  - variables:
      day_is_on: >-
        {{ is_state('automation.ha_automation_daylight', 'on') }}
  - service: homeassistant.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: >-
        automation.{{ 'ha_automation_daylight' if day_is_on else
        'netflix_movies_automation' }}
  - service: homeassistant.turn_off
    target:
      entity_id: >-
        automation.{{ 'netflix_movies_automation' if day_is_on else
        'movie_lighting' }}
mode: single
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Normally I would jump in to help but I am allergic to the concept of enabling/disabling automations as a normal practice. Use a better trigger or a condition in the automation to control when it should/shouldn’t execute.

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This code was executed without errors and the reached final code was able trigger status successfully (Icons color light changes sucessfully) but no action occurs… the automations were not triggered.

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The last YAML code provided by tom_l is to toggle automation on/off.

Does the automation not turning off and on as you expected?

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Unfortunately it was not triggering the automation, the button just is toggling

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That’s not what I understood you to be asking. I thought you meant this:

Enabling and triggering are two different things.

Also if you are triggering automations manually you should be using scripts instead (they’re just automations without triggers).

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how can I update the below script to trigger automations

alias: Toggle Automation
sequence:
  - variables:
      day_is_on: '{{ is_state(''automation.ha_automation_daylight'', ''on'') }}'
  - service: homeassistant.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: >-
        automation.{{ 'netflix_movies_automation' if day_is_on else
        'ha_automation_daylight' }}
  - service: homeassistant.turn_off
    target:
      entity_id: >-
        automation.{{ 'ha_automation_daylight' if day_is_on else
        'netflix_movies_automation' }}
mode: single