Templated Action problem in Dialogflow Script

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I’m trying to wrap my head around the syntax and formatting of intent scripts when it comes to dialogflow fulfillment. I’ve got a couple working properly, parsing variable values and returning them to the speaker. However, the toggleClimate function at the bottom always fails.

Here’s what I get from the dev-info console. (It leads me to suspect I’m somehow creating an array of length 1 with my data_template)

Error executing service <ServiceCall climate.turn_off (c:7244079fb8b84505acb360efdda5c0af): entity_id=['climate.living_room']>

The first two intents succeed. Calling the third intent always returns the default error response, and I get this in the dialog flow console log:

{
  "id": "ca5866c7-278c-4f2c-8d63-ecfa37143a5a",
  "timestamp": "2018-09-05T04:48:46.344Z",
  "lang": "en",
  "result": {
    "source": "agent",
    "resolvedQuery": "turn off the air in the living room",
    "action": "toggleClimate",
    "actionIncomplete": false,
    "parameters": {
      "room": "Living Room",
      "OnOff": "off"
    },
    "contexts": [],
    "metadata": {
      "isFallbackIntent": "false",
      "webhookResponseTime": 10001,
      "intentName": "toggleClimate",
      "intentId": "2f298b1b-74a6-48b5-9083-694576411b25",
      "webhookUsed": "true",
      "webhookForSlotFillingUsed": "false",
      "endConversation": true
    },
    "fulfillment": {
      "speech": "I tried, but I failed you.",
      "messages": [
        {
          "type": 0,
          "speech": "I tried, but I failed you."
        }
      ]
    },
    "score": 1
  },
  "status": {
    "code": 206,
    "errorType": "partial_content",
    "errorDetails": "Webhook call failed. Error: Request timeout."
  },
  "sessionId": "be81b3db-9248-4af9-5ec2-d4c3a01e9cf4"
}

Here’s the contents of intent_script.yaml:

getTemperature:
  speech:
    text: >
      {%- if room == "Master Bedroom" -%}
        It's currently {{ states("sensor.bedroom_temperature") }} degrees in the bedroom.
      {%- elif room == "Living Room" -%}
        It's currently {{ states("sensor.message_board_temp") }} degrees in the living room.
      {%- else -%}
        I didn't catch the name of the room.
      {%- endif -%}
getClimate:
  speech:
    text: >
      {%- if room == "Master Bedroom" -%}
        The AC is {{ states("climate.bedroom") }}, and the thermostat is set to {{ states.climate.bedroom.attributes.temperature }}.
      {%- elif room == "Living Room" -%}
        The AC is {{ states("climate.living_room") }}, and the thermostat is set to {{ states.climate.living_room.attributes.temperature }}.
      {%- else -%}
        I didn't catch the name of the room. The AC in the bedroom is set to {{ states("climate.bedroom") }}, and the living room is set to {{ states("climate.living_room") }}.
      {%- endif -%}
toggleClimate:
  speech:
    text: Turning the AC {{ OnOff }} in the {{ room }}
  action:
    - service_template: >
        {%- if OnOff == "on" -%}
          climate.turn_on
        {%- else -%}
          climate.turn_off
        {%- endif -%}
      data_template:
        entity_id: >
          {%- if room == "Master Bedroom" -%}
            climate.bedroom
          {%- elif room == "Living Room" -%}
            climate.living_room
          {%- endif -%}

What have I got wrong?

2

Typically, this isn’t possible. All jinja returns strings. Have you tried executing the service in the service template area?

also, what does the log say before that error?

3

You nailed it! I was calling the wrong service. Apparently, to turn on a generic thermostat, you need to call climate.set_operation_mode to “cool” rather than call climate.turn_on or turn_off.

Odd.

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