Question about the dropdown helper in Automations

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Hello, I recently installed Home Assistant and am trying to migrate from iobroker/Homematic. I would like to create a variable (window) to which I can declare two states. Since you can’t rename the standard switch (open/closed), GPT recommended a dropdown menu. I’ve now set it up, but where can I select the state (open/closed) in automations?
I defined a Dropdown “Fenster” with two Entries “open” and “close”.

Where can I select which state the automation should set? I expected a selection with the entries I previously defined in the helper. Or what am I doing wrong? For example, I would like to select “open”

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Surprise, surprise. GPT has been bullshitting you. Stop using it for help with things about which you can’t tell when it is doing this. Ask for help here instead.

You actually want a template cover to convert your switch to a window.

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Can I also create the variables visually? I don’t want to maintain a YAML? In iobroker or Homematic, it’s easy to do via the graphical interface. Sorry if I misunderstand something, it’s all new to me :slight_smile:

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See if this helper works for your use case

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