Artorius
(Arthur)
November 20, 2022, 12:01am
1
I’m pretty new to home assistant so I might be doing something really obvious wrong. But I can’t seem to get it working.
I want to send the actual state of a trigger in my automation to a rest api. I have the following automation set up:
alias: Send current power consumption
description: ""
trigger:
- type: power
platform: device
device_id: 12b09f34b1e61020dd7d86cc5c2d2d7b
entity_id: sensor.electricity_meter_power_consumption
domain: sensor
above: 0
condition: []
action:
- service: rest_command.electricity_consumption
data:
CONSUMPTION_AMOUNT: states('sensor.electricity_meter_power_consumption')
mode: single
I’d like to get the actual value of the sensor.electricity_meter_power_consumption entity.
I’ve tried:
state_attr(‘sensor.electricity_meter_power_consumption’)
sensor.electricity_meter_power_consumption
trigger.event.data.sensor.electricity_meter_power_consumption
But they all don’t give the expected result.
How can I fix this?
Templating
Trigger variables
alias: Send current power consumption
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.electricity_meter_power_consumption
above: 0
condition: []
action:
- service: rest_command.electricity_consumption
data:
CONSUMPTION_AMOUNT: "{{ trigger.to_state.state }}"
mode: single
EDIT: Changed trigger type to Numeric State
Artorius
(Arthur)
November 20, 2022, 10:46pm
3
Great that got me a little further!
But now when the automation is triggered I get this error:
Error rendering data template: Result is not a Dictionary
What does this mean and how do I fix it?
I had meant to change it to a a Numeric state trigger, instead of a Device trigger (I have edited the automation above).
Double check that your data
variable is correct… while possible, it is rare to have variables with capital letters.
Also, be aware that by defining an above
in your trigger your actions will only execute when the triggering sensor goes from 0 to above zero… it will not continue to update whatever the endpoint of your REST command is as it increases beyond that point.
Artorius
(Arthur)
November 21, 2022, 3:17pm
5
Yes that did the trick!!
Thanks a lot for your help Drew!