Script Template Assistance

xstrex · December 14, 2018, 5:36pm

Writing a quick script for a new Dyson fan I picked up, but running into issues with the template, what am I doing wrong here?

bedroom_fan_night:
    alias: 'Bedroom Fan Night'
    sequence:
      - service: fan.set_speed
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          speed: 2
      - service: fan.oscillate
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          oscillating: true
      - service: climate.set_fan_mode
        data:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          fan_mode: "Focus Mode"
      - service: climate.set_temperature
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          temperature: "{{ states('input_number.sleep_temp' ) |int }}"
          operation_mode: "{{ states('sensor.thermostat_mode') }}"
      - service: fan.dyson_set_night_mode
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          night_mode: true

If I load up the Template Editor in the UI, both templates render just fine.

Guess it would help if I described what’s broken hu?! (thanks @petro)!
When the script gets run, all service entries run, like they should, except the one containing the template, the script literally skips it.

Cheers

petro · December 14, 2018, 5:40pm

What’s the exact problem?

The yaml format looks good and the templates look good. So pretty much need more information on

petro · December 14, 2018, 5:47pm

Hmm, it looks good. Turn on logging and watch the home assistant logs and verify that it’s not getting called. Check for errors too. When I say watch the logging, i’m refering to the home-assistant.log file inside the config directory. Don’t bother looking at the logs in the UI.

arsaboo · December 14, 2018, 5:51pm

Try

      - service: climate.set_temperature
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          temperature: >
            {{ states('input_number.sleep_temp' ) |int }}
          operation_mode: "{{ states('sensor.thermostat_mode') }}"

I am assuming there is no issue with the input_number.sleep_temp and sensor.thermostat_mode

xstrex · December 14, 2018, 5:55pm

Thanks guys, I’ll give both of those a try. Here’s what the templates render to, in the template editor:
“{{ states(‘sensor.thermostat_mode’) }}”
“{{ states(‘input_number.sleep_temp’ ) |int }}”

“Heat”
“65”

xstrex · December 14, 2018, 6:30pm

Think I found my problem…

This Works
climate.set_operation_mode
{
“entity_id”: “climate.bedroom”,
“operation_mode”: “heat”
}

This Does Not
climate.set_operation_mode
{
“entity_id”: “climate.bedroom”,
“operation_mode”: “Heat”
}

As listed above, the template returns “Heat”, not “heat”!
Anyone know the Jinja2 for converting case from upper to lower?

Then again, this also Works! (WTF)
climate.set_temperature
{
“entity_id”: “climate.bedroom”,
“temperature”: “65”,
“operation_mode”: “Heat”
}

petro · December 14, 2018, 7:36pm

{{ "Heat".lower() }}

or

{{ "Heat" | lower }}

in your case:

"{{ states('sensor.thermostat_mode') | lower }}"

xstrex · December 14, 2018, 7:43pm

I’ve tried separating the 2 template options, to different steps, but that still didn’t work.

  bedroom_fan_night:
    alias: 'Bedroom Fan Night'
    sequence:
      - service: fan.set_speed
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          speed: 2
      - service: fan.oscillate
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          oscillating: true
      - service: climate.set_fan_mode
        data:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          fan_mode: "Focus Mode"
      - service: climate.set_operation_mode
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          operation_mode: "{{ states('sensor.thermostat_mode') |lower }}"
      - service: climate.set_temperature
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          temperature: "{{ states('input_number.sleep_temp' ) |int }}"
      - service: fan.dyson_set_night_mode
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          night_mode: true

Going to add some more steps, with notifications, to see where it breaks.

petro · December 14, 2018, 8:09pm

Have you tried just calling the service from the service tab?

EDIT: Don’t use templates in this, they won’t work. Just use a normal json dict:

Service Data (JSON, optional)

{"entity_id":"climate.x", "operation_mode":"Heat"}

xstrex · December 14, 2018, 9:38pm

Yes, this does work (see 4 comments above).

This Works - and is done from the service tab
climate.set_operation_mode
{
“entity_id”: “climate.bedroom”,
“operation_mode”: “heat”
}

xstrex · December 14, 2018, 10:04pm

Lets see which ones fail, and which work:

  bedroom_fan_night_1:
    alias: 'Bedroom Fan Night 1'
    sequence:
      - service: fan.set_speed
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          speed: 2

  bedroom_fan_night_2:
    alias: 'Bedroom Fan Night 2'
    sequence:
      - service: fan.set_speed
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          speed: 2
      - service: fan.oscillate
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          oscillating: true

  bedroom_fan_night_3:
    alias: 'Bedroom Fan Night 3'
    sequence:
      - service: fan.set_speed
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          speed: 2
      - service: fan.oscillate
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          oscillating: true
      - service: climate.set_operation_mode
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          operation_mode: "{{ states('sensor.thermostat_mode') |lower }}"

  bedroom_fan_night_4:
    alias: 'Bedroom Fan Night 4'
    sequence:
      - service: fan.set_speed
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          speed: 2
      - service: fan.oscillate
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          oscillating: true
      - service: climate.set_operation_mode
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          operation_mode: "{{ states('sensor.thermostat_mode') |lower }}"
      - service: climate.set_temperature
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          temperature: "{{ states('input_number.sleep_temp' ) |int }}"

xstrex · December 14, 2018, 10:20pm

I’m convinced there is something wrong with the component, or my specific fan (even though it works fine via the app).

The fan seems to do the specified action in the script, but is randomly and instantly reverted. For instance, I set it to cool, auto, and oscillate (which it did), then via a script I set it to a speed of 2 (and left everything else the same), It switched to 2, then immediately switched back to Auto.

I’m noticing the same behavior with every other version of the scripts I’m throwing at it.

xstrex · May 10, 2019, 7:37pm

Hate to revive something so old, but it’s still revellent.

Absolutely everything works in this script, as expected, except for the “climate.set_temperature”

  bedroom_fan_night_testing:
    alias: 'Bedroom Fan Night TEST'
    sequence:
      - service: fan.set_speed
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          speed: "2"
      - delay: '00:00:01'
      - service: fan.oscillate
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          oscillating: true
      - delay: '00:00:01'
      - service: climate.set_temperature
        data_template:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          temperature: "65"
          operation_mode: "Heat"
      - delay: '00:00:05'
      - service: dyson.set_night_mode
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          night_mode: true

I’ve also tried breaking out climate.set_temperature & climate.set_operation_mode, but the script still skips them, and continues on to dyson.set_night_mode.

If I open the actual component, and set the temp & mode, it works just fine.
40%20PM

Also, if I try and fire the climate.set_temperature & climate.set_operation_mode from Dev/Services, it fails as well (literally nothing happens, no logs, nothing).

Any ideas?

petro · May 10, 2019, 8:20pm

You’re using a service for the climate domain on a device in the fan domain. Sure you don’t have the correct entity_id?

EDIT: all your other posts call out climate.bedroom for your climate.set_temperatures

xstrex · May 10, 2019, 8:36pm

Thank you, that was it actually! Thought I was going nuts.

It seems this fan makes 2 different devices. fan.bedroom and climate.bedroom

fan.bedroom controls the fan, and climate.bedroom controls the heating, cooling, temp & operation modes. Wish that was better documented (Maybe I’ll go fix the docs so others don’t get stuck).

petro · May 10, 2019, 8:37pm

yeah it tripped me up too because it doesn’t really spell that out

xstrex · May 10, 2019, 8:46pm

For others with the Dyson Pure Hot+Cool:
(assuming your fan is named bedroom, for instance)

Use fan.bedroom for the following:
fan.oscillate
fan.set_direction
fan.set_speed
fan.toggle
fan.turn_on
fan.turn_off
dyson.set_night_mode

Use climate.bedroom for the following:
climate.set_temperature
climate.set_operation_mode
climate.turn_on
climate.turn_off
climate.set_fan_mode

I’m going to add a note in the component documentation as well.

xstrex · May 17, 2019, 12:26am

My script for turning on the fan works, which is great. But I’ve run into an odd delema.
If you pass a temperature value to climate.set_temperature it automatically sets the operation_mode to heat, no matter if you manually set it to cool or not.

Currently I’m passing the temperature value to the fan as a template from my thermostat sleep temperature. As well as the operation_mode from my thermostat. This way thru out the year, when the script fires the temperature and operation_mode match that of my thermostat.

Works great in the winter, because it turns on the heat. But in the summer it also turns on the heat (even though cool is passed).

I’m wondering if I could use an if statement.
So IF the thermostat_mode is set to heat, call the service climate.set_temperature, with the temperature matching my thermostat temperature, and mode.
Else IF thermostat_mode is set to cool, call climate.set_operation_mode with a mode of cool, and speed of auto.

Here’s my current working script:

  bedroom_fan_night:
    alias: 'Bedroom Fan Night'
    sequence:
      - service: fan.set_speed
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          speed: "2"
      - delay: '00:00:01'
      - service: fan.oscillate
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          oscillating: true
      - delay: '00:00:01'
      - service: climate.set_temperature
        data_template:
          entity_id: climate.bedroom
          temperature: "{{ states('input_number.sleep_temp' ) |int }}"
          operation_mode: "{{ states('sensor.thermostat_mode') | lower }}"
      - delay: '00:00:05'
      - service: dyson.set_night_mode
        data:
          entity_id: fan.bedroom
          night_mode: true