Simple variables in configuration.yaml

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@The-May

Id rather define a var something like “m_player_name = spotify_username_changeme” so that I only have to change one var and the other code has “media_player.{{m_player_name}}” (or whatever the exaxt syntax is) defined.
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Is this even possible natively

Home Assistant doesn’t support the concept of global variables.

This is the closest (native) approximation of global variables:

Trigger based template sensor to store global variables

This was posted earlier here. I’ve added some improvements, mostly to avoid errors, and also added some additional stuff suggested by @erkr in this post It can happen you want to store some data to use it in another automation, or make sure it’s still available after a restart of HA. You can use helpers for that (eg and input_text entity) but these are limited in which types you can store, and they can be easily edited in the GUI. The configuration below creates a trigger based templates senso…

There’s also a custom integration called Hass Variables.