Template select with state as selected option

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True, instead of using one helper per Template Select, they can use one of these for all of their Template Selects.

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…

I have never tried it. It remains to be seen how it behaves on startup/reload when the Template integration is loaded (the Trigger-based Template Sensor would need to be restored before the Template Select is processed).