Repeating a service (or script)?

[tom_l]

It’s a shame you can’t have “naked” templates, i.e. outside an entity or service.

There’s a feature request here that should be voted for if you haven’t already and want easy loops:

Add easier solution for loops in automations/scripts

Repeated tasks under the action part of an automation seem to be a quite common, although complicated, task to script. An example would be to blink a light on and off or to switch between two colors of a light x times. The most basic way of doing this would be to copy the on/off parts x times in the automation. A more advanced way seem to be to make two scripts, and have them call the other script at the end of each of these. Both of these seem to be quite cumbersome solutions to an often occurr…