Switch does not execute python script

Configuration
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I want that a switch executes a python script that is stored in my HASS folder (All in one installation)
Here is my switch configuration:

  • platform: command_switch
    switches:
    autoremote:
    command_on: python ‘[/home/hass/.homeassistant/switchon.py]’
    command_off: python ‘[/home/hass/.homeassistant/switchoff.py]’

If i manually click on the scripts it runs bit the switch doesnt work.

Any ideas?

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Your code contains a few errors. Try this:

switch:
  - platform: command_line
    switches:
      autoremote:
        command_on: 'python3 /home/hass/.homeassistant/switchon.py'
        command_off: 'python3 /home/hass/.homeassistant/switchoff.py'

If you have your switches in a seperate file (which you include in your configuration.yaml file), then drop the first line (switch:).

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Thx for the help, it worked!!!

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And if i want to call this script directly from an automation how should i write the action?
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.aeotec_dsb29_doorwindow_sensor_2nd_edition_sensor_3
state: ‘on’
action:
service: ???
entity_id: ???
data: ???

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You would have to use a shell command, for example:

shell_command:
  autoremote_on: 'python3 /home/hass/.homeassistant/switchon.py'
  autoremote_off: 'python3 /home/hass/.homeassistant/switchoff.py'

With these shell commands, your automation action would simply be:

action:
  service: shell_command.autoremote_on

or

action:
  service: shell_command.autoremote_off

Or you could just switch on/off the switch you defined above to trigger the script:

action:
  service: switch.turn_on
  entity_id: switch.autoremote

and

action:
  service: switch.turn_off
  entity_id: switch.autoremote
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Its an old post, but I had the same problem and got here, so I’ll just post my solution here for the next one to find it.

when you run python directly from bash in SSH, its not the same version of Python as the one running in the Homeassistant virtual enviroment.

try running the script from the homeassistant user:

sudo su -s /bin/bash homeassistant
python3 /home/hass/.homeassistant/switchon.py

In my case, I was using the serial module in my script, and that was not installed on the python version in the virtual enviroment. runnin pip3 install pyserial from the homeassistant user solved the problem.