Hi there people.
I am struggling with a script that is not executing correctly, despite looking correct to me.
So background - the values are being injected by Node-RED, I originally designed this process to run as multiple steps in a flow, but it made more sense to make one script and then just call that.
Anyway, the HA script YAML:
script:
hue_activate_scene_and_brightness:
sequence:
- service: hue.hue_activate_scene
data_template:
group_name: "{{ group_name }}"
scene_name: "{{ scene_name }}"
- delay:
seconds: 2
- service: system_log.write
data_template:
message: >
Setting brightness for
{{ entity_id }} to
{{ state_attr("{{ entity_id }}", 'brightness') | int}}
- service: light.turn_on
data_template:
entity_id: "{{ entity_id }}"
brightness: >
{{ state_attr("{{ entity_id }}", 'brightness') | int}}
(The system_log.write is only in there for debug purposes.)
The reason for this is that I am using Ikea bulbs which do not reliably change colour and brightness, so I am using a script to change the Hue scene, checking what the lights think their brightness should be and then re-setting the brightness.
Running the automation, I get the following in the logs:
2019-10-18 13:59:39 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Running script
2019-10-18 13:59:39 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Executing step call service
2019-10-18 13:59:39 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Executing step delay 0:00:02
2019-10-18 13:59:42 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Executing step call service
2019-10-18 13:59:42 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.system_log.external] Setting brightness for light.hallway to 0
2019-10-18 13:59:42 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Executing step call service
So the first part runs and sets the scene correctly, if I increase the delay to 30 seconds I can see the scene change and the light comes on.
The second part then fails to evaluate correctly and returns 0 so switches the lights back off again. If I remove the:
| int
it returns
None
instead and so throws an error (as expected):
2019-10-18 13:58:29 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Running script
2019-10-18 13:58:29 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Executing step call service
2019-10-18 13:58:29 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Executing step delay 0:00:02
2019-10-18 13:58:32 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Executing step call service
2019-10-18 13:58:32 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.system_log.external] Setting brightness for light.hallway to None
2019-10-18 13:58:32 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script hue_activate_scene_and_brightness: Executing step call service
2019-10-18 13:58:32 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 181, in async_run
await self._handle_action(action, variables, context)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 265, in _handle_action
await self._actions[_determine_action(action)](action, variables, context)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/script.py", line 348, in _async_call_service
context=context,
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/service.py", line 97, in async_call_from_config
domain, service_name, service_data, blocking=blocking, context=context
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1211, in async_call
processed_data = handler.schema(service_data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py", line 272, in __call__
return self._compiled([], data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py", line 594, in validate_dict
return base_validate(path, iteritems(data), out)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py", line 432, in validate_mapping
raise er.MultipleInvalid(errors)
voluptuous.error.MultipleInvalid: expected int for dictionary value @ data['brightness']
If I switch the light on and run the template in the GUI, I get the brightness returned as expected:
So it appears that the syntax is all fine.
My gut tells me this is a syntactical error in the template, but I have compared it my other automations and templates as well as example code online and it looks fine. Despite many, many tweaks I cannot seem to get the correct response and I am still scratching my head.
Is anybody able to offer and insights?
Thanks in advance
