Templates and script problem

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#1

I have a little problem whit some scripts and templates.

I have made a dashboard to join my multiroom speakers, but can’t get it to work correctly.

one speaker works but when I want to join more than 2 my entity list doesn’t work

- name: heos gruppera
    state: >
      {% set output = namespace(heos=[]) %}
      {% for state in states.input_boolean | selectattr('entity_id','search','heos') %}
        {% if state.state == 'on'  %}
          {% set output.heos = output.heos + [state.entity_id | replace("input_boolean","media_player") ~ ('\n') ] %}
        {% endif %}
      {% endfor %}
      {{ output.heos | join  }}

heos_gruppera:
  alias: heos gruppera
  sequence:
  - service: media_player.join
    data:
      group_members: 
        - "{{ states('sensor.heos_gruppera') }}"
    target:
      entity_id: "{{master}}"

gruppera_badrum:
  alias: gruppera badrum
  sequence:
    - service: script.heos_gruppera
      data:
        master: media_player.heos_badrum
  mode: single

gruppera_kok:
  alias: gruppera kök
  sequence:
    - service: script.heos_gruppera
      data:
        master: media_player.heos_kok
  mode: single

one works
step details

Executed: May 24, 2022 at 21:52:16
Result:
params:
domain: media_player
service: join
service_data:
group_members:
- media_player.heos_badrum
entity_id:
- media_player.heos_kok
target:
entity_id:
- media_player.heos_kok
running_script: false
limit: 10

and when I want more than one I get “|-” group_members:

Executed: May 24, 2022 at 21:52:18
Result:
params:
domain: media_player
service: join
service_data:
group_members:
- |-
media_player.heos_badrum
media_player.heos_flyttbar
entity_id:
- media_player.heos_kok
target:
entity_id:
- media_player.heos_kok
running_script: false
limit: 10

#2

Change your Template Sensor to this:

  - name: heos gruppera
    state: >
      {{ states.input_boolean | selectattr('object_id', 'search', 'heos')
        | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on') | map(attribute='entity_id')
        | map('replace', 'input_boolean', 'media_player')
        | list | join(' ') }}

Then make a small change to the heos_gruppera script:

heos_gruppera:
  alias: heos gruppera
  sequence:
  - service: media_player.join
    data:
      group_members: "{{ states('sensor.heos_gruppera').split() }}"
    target:
      entity_id: "{{master}}"
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#3

Thanks for the much nicer template

But I still have errors
The group members need to be listed

group_members: 
  - media_player.heos_badrum
  - media_player.heos_flyttbar

To make it work and with this code I get

 group_members: media_player.heos_badrum media_player.heos_flyttbar

But thanks for the help so far

#4

The value for group_members must be a list (for more than one media_player).

In YAML, this is a list:

group_members: 
  - media_player.heos_badrum
  - media_player.heos_flyttbar

This is also a list:

group_members: ['media_player.heos_badrum', 'media_player.heos_flyttbar']

The value contained by sensor.heos_gruppera looks like this:

media_player.heos_badrum media_player.heos_flyttbar

However, the split() function in this template:

{{ states('sensor.heos_gruppera').split() }}

converts it to a list that looks like this which is what group_members requires:

['media_player.heos_badrum', 'media_player.heos_flyttbar']

Ensure the script’s template contains the split() function.

#5

You where right I have missed the split()

It works much better now

Thanks for the help

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#6

You’re welcome!

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