Templating dependent sensor same room customize_glob

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Hi everyone,

I want to customize the icon color of a input_button depending on a different entity with similar name for a bulk of input_buttons. The input_buttons are named something like input_button.room_name_of_job and the other entity on which state the icon color should depend on is named something like switch.room_name_of_duty. Maybe someone of you can help me, otherwise I have to set customize it for every single input_button.

The config for one entity looks like this

input_button.schlafzimmer_heizung_boost:
  templates:
    icon_color: >
      if (['unavailable', 'unknown'].includes(state)) return '#bf0056';
      if (entities['switch.schlafzimmer_bosch_thermostat_boost'].state === 'on') return '#ff8100';
      return 'grey';

But I would like to move this into the customize_glob file. So I need a if statement which take the string input_button.schlafzimmer_heizung_boost, replaces “input_button.” with “switch”, and replaces “heizung_boost” with “bosch_thermostat_boost” and checks the state of the entity with the created string. Is this somehow possible?

Edit: I am using custom UI.
Edit 2: Corrected the code to actually work for one entity.

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is this using custom UI? If no, then what you want is not possible.

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Yes sorry, forgot to mention that.

4

Ok, then you have to use what custom UI allows. I don’t use it, but I’m 99% sure it does not have jinja functions in it. I.e.

won’t work

EDIT: Looking at the examples, you have to use

entities['switch.schlafzimmer_bosch_thermostat_boost'].state == 'on'

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Thank you. I just noticed my first code didn’t work. Corrected it.

So you recon there is no possibility for some string operations?

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there is, but its using JS (javascript) not jinja. You’d have to split them based on ‘_’ and/or ‘.’

7

But javascript is not usable in the yaml files, is it?

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jabascript is required for customui. So anytime you’re using customui to set a color, you have to use javascript.

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that’s javascript

that’s half javascript, half jinja (will not work)

that’s javascript

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Oh, I wasn’t aware of that, thanks. So does that mean I can use javescript functions like .replace(…)?

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yes, all JS native functions should be available.

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Hm, is there a variable “inside” the template representing the entity?

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I believe so, check the examples in the customUI documentation, that’s where I got entities from.

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That I did. It seems to be entity.entity_id. I will try something.

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Thank you for the javascript hint! I got it working. Here is my code.

"input_button.*_heizung_boost":
  templates:
    icon_color: >
      if (['unavailable', 'unknown'].includes(state)) return '#bf0056';
      function inThermostatBoostVerwandeln(string) {
        return string.replace('input_button', 'switch').replace('heizung_boost', 'bosch_thermostat_boost');
      }
      var thermostat_boost = inThermostatBoostVerwandeln(entity.entity_id);
      if (entities[thermostat_boost].state === 'on') return '#ff8100';
      return 'grey';
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