Script/Automation worked then started throwing errors now wont work using original code

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Had an automation / script that worked great for about two hours then stopped after trying to add a second automation for another remote, now I cannot get the original script or automation to work.

Errors thrown are:

Invalid config for [automation]: template value should be a string for dictionary value @ data[‘action’][0][‘data’]. Got None.

and

Invalid config for [script]: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data[‘sequence’][0][‘choose’][1][‘sequence’][0][‘target’][‘entity_id’]. Got None.

Automation Code:

- id: "1662220652179"
  alias: Audio test remote script test
  description: "test to send var to script"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.remotes_test
      from: "0"
  condition: []
  action:
    service: script.audio_remote
    data:
      variables:
        button: "{{ states.sensor.remotes_test.state }}"
        zone: "{{ media_player.zone_11 }}"
        zone_source: "{{state_attr('media_player.zone_11', 'source'}}"
  mode: single

Script Code:

audio_remote:
  alias: audio remote script
  mode: parallel
  variables:
    button_pressed: "{{ button | int(0) }}"
    speaker_zone: "{{ zone }}"
    zone_source_int: "{{ zone_source | int(0) }}"
  sequence:
    - choose:
        - conditions: "{{ button_pressed in [1, 4] }}"
          # button play/pause (1) or next (4) pressed
          sequence:
            - service: media_player.select_source
              data:
                source: "{{ iif(zone_source_int == '1', '2', '1') }}"
              target:
                entity_id: "{{ zone }}"
        - conditions: "{{ button_pressed == 2 }}"
          # button center (2) pressed
          sequence:
            - service: media_player.toggle
              target:
                entity_id: speaker_zone
        - conditions: "{{ button_pressed in [8, 16] }}"
          # button volume up (8) or down (16) pressed
          sequence:
            - service: "media_player.volume_{{ iif(button_pressed == 8, 'up', 'down') }}"
              target:
                entity_id: speaker_zone
      default: []

I have gone over spacing a bunch of times and even re-type everything by hand just incase cut and paste was doing weird things with no luck. What I don’t get is why it worked and now it throws the error, maybe there is a cache or something that needs to be cleared out? I have restarted services as well as full server several times in between troubleshooting changes.

Thanks in advance for any insights.

2

remove that change.

restart.

fix the error in the added code that stopped the original from working.

3

Thats what I have done.

The code posted is the original code.
I have removed the additions.
It was not causing errors before but now it does.

4

Then there is another change that you made and are missing or forgot about.

It has to be something you just changed.

5

You are missing a closing bracket in the automation:

        zone_source: "{{state_attr('media_player.zone_11', 'source'}}"

should be

        zone_source: "{{state_attr('media_player.zone_11', 'source')}}"

The script:

                entity_id: speaker_zone

should be:

                entity_id: "{{ speaker_zone }}"

For future reference the error message does tell you exactly where to look:

data[‘sequence’][0][‘choose’][1][‘sequence’][0][‘target’][‘entity_id’]

That means:

sequence: # the first sequence ( ['sequence'][0] )
  - choose:
      - conditions: # ignore this one - because we want the second one ( ['choose'][1] )
      - conditions: # this is the section we want, but this part is ok, so keep reading down
        sequence: # this is the correct part ( ['sequence'][0] )
           target:
             entity_id: # this is where the error is
6

Change this:

        zone: "{{ media_player.zone_11 }}"

to this:

        zone: "media_player.zone_11"

By enclosing the string media_player.zone_11 in double-braces you are instructing the Jinja2 processor to evaluate what lies within the braces. What it finds is a string that it assumes represents the name of a variable. However, this assumed variable is undefined so it all ends in an error.

By removing the double-braces, the Jinja2 interpreter doesn’t come into play and the string media_player.zone_11 is simply interpreted as a value to be assigned to the zone script variable (which is all you want for this application).

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