Passing Date/Time Helper to Script for Alexa Alarm

Configuration
1

I have an automation to set alarms on an alexa device based on the time in an input helper. Alexa doesn’t take the time in the input helper directly. I found this macro that breaks it out so the alarm can be set correctly:

service: media_player.play_media
data:
  media_content_id: >-
    {% set hour_twentyfour =
    states('input_datetime.alison_weekday_alarm_helper').split(':')[0]|int(0) %}
     {% set hour_twelve = hour_twentyfour if hour_twentyfour < 13 else hour_twentyfour - 12 %}
     {% set minutes = states('input_datetime.ma_alarm_set_time').split(':')[1] %}
     {% set minutes_formatted = minutes if minutes != '00' else '' %}
     {% set am_pm = 'am' if hour_twentyfour < 12 else 'pm' %}
     Cancel alarm for {{hour_twelve}} {{minutes_formatted}} {{am_pm}}
  media_content_type: custom
target:
  entity_id: media_player.office_echo

I’d like to make this a service that I can call. I’ve created the service below. The input date/time helper is not evaluated by the script. As you can see in the script I added a persistent notification so I can see what it was doing with the time. It always comes back as zero. What is the best way to pass this input date/time helper to the script and have it evaluated by this macro?

alias: Alexa Alarm Hander
sequence:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    data:
      media_content_id: >
        {% set hour_twentyfour =states( "{{ date_time_helper }}"
        ).split(':')[0]|int(0) %} {% set hour_twelve = hour_twentyfour if
        hour_twentyfour < 13 else hour_twentyfour - 12 %} {% set minutes =
        states( "{{ date_time_helper }}" ).split(':')[1] %} {% set
        minutes_formatted = minutes if minutes != '00' else '' %} {% set am_pm =
        'am' if hour_twentyfour < 12 else 'pm' %} {{hour_twelve}}
        {{minutes_formatted}} {{am_pm}}
      media_content_type: custom
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.office_echo
    enabled: false
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{on_off == 'on' }}"
    then:
      - service: media_player.play_media
        data:
          media_content_id: >
            {% set hour_twentyfour=states( '{{date_time_helper}}'
            ).split(':')[0]|int(0) %} {% set hour_twelve = hour_twentyfour if
            hour_twentyfour < 13 else hour_twentyfour - 12 %} {% set minutes =
            states( '{{date_time_helper}}' ).split(':')[1] %} {% set
            minutes_formatted = minutes if minutes != '00' else '' %} {% set
            am_pm = 'am' if hour_twentyfour < 12 else 'pm' %} Set alarm for
            {{hour_twelve}} {{minutes_formatted}} {{am_pm}}
          media_content_type: custom
        target:
          entity_id: media_player.office_echo
        enabled: true
      - service: notify.persistent_notification
        data:
          message: >
            On
            Helper{{states('input_datetime.alison_weekday_alarm_helper').split(':')[0]|int(0)}}
            field: {{states('{{ date_time_helper }}').split(':')[0]|int(0)}}
    else:
      - service: media_player.play_media
        data:
          media_content_id: >
            {% set hour_twentyfour=states('{{ date_time_helper
            }}').split(':')[0]|int(0) %} {% set hour_twelve = hour_twentyfour if
            hour_twentyfour < 13 else hour_twentyfour - 12 %} {% set minutes =
            states('{{date_time_helper}}').split(':')[1] %} {% set
            minutes_formatted = minutes if minutes != '00' else '' %} {% set
            am_pm = 'am' if hour_twentyfour < 12 else 'pm' %} Cancel alarm for
            {{hour_twelve}} {{minutes_formatted}} {{am_pm}}
          media_content_type: custom
        target:
          entity_id: media_player.office_echo
        enabled: true
mode: single
icon: mdi:alarm
fields:
  target_speaker:
    selector:
      text: null
    name: target_speaker
  date_time_helper:
    selector:
      text: null
    name: date_time_helper
    description: ID Of the Date Time Helper
  on_off:
    selector:
      text: null
    name: On/Off
    description: Turn Alarm On or Off
2

This is how I ended up solving this. I created a macro that can take in the date time helper and break it out into the individual components.


{% macro format_time_to_speech(datetime_input) %}
  {% set hour_twentyfour = states(datetime_input).split(':')[0]| int(0) %}
  {% set hour_twelve = hour_twentyfour if hour_twentyfour < 13 else hour_twentyfour - 12 %}
  {% set minutes = states(datetime_input).split(':')[1] %}
  {% set minutes_formatted = minutes if minutes != '00' else '' %}
  {% set am_pm = 'am' if hour_twentyfour < 12 else 'pm' %}
  {{hour_twelve}} {{minutes_formatted}} {{am_pm}}
{% endmacro %}

I use it in the script like this:
{% from ‘wakeup_times.jinja’ import format_time_to_speech %}
{{ format_time_to_speech(‘input_datetime.weekday_alarm_helper’) }}