Tracking down a configuration [script] error - SOLVED

[smallrebelarmy]

Hi. I need a little help determining what’s causing this error.

Logger: homeassistant.config
Source: config.py:445
First occurred: 10:07:44 AM (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 10:07:44 AM

Invalid config for [script]: expected dict for dictionary value @ data[‘sequence’][1][‘data_template’]. Got None. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 27).

The configuration.yaml, line 27 points to my automations file which has a lot of automations unfortunately. Is there anything, in particular I should be looking for? I can’t tell from the output. I’m not sure what ‘Got None’ is referring to.

Thanks in advance.

[tom_l]

What is on line 26 and 28 of your configuration.yaml file?

[smallrebelarmy]

Hi tom_I

26 group: !include groups.yaml
27 automation: !include automations.yaml
28 script: !include scripts.yaml

[ardysusilo (Ardy)]

Go to your scripts.yaml → Comment out half of your script → Check Configuration → If valid → Repeat for the other half → Check until you find out which one.

OR (never tried it myself)

Paste your whole scripts.yaml inside configuration.yaml and check configuration. See if it points out which script has a problem.

See here for more information-

How to debug valid configuration

The logs says it’s the script listed above. And the automation is one that is missing the action part. Most likely you have deleted the action from the automation. I’m fairly sure you can copy the contents of the automation.yaml and paste it in configuration.yaml and comment out the include line. That way the config check should report what line number it finds the error.

[123 (Taras)]

@smallrebelarmy

Invalid config for [script]:

@smallrebelarmy

28 script: !include scripts.yaml

Checks your scripts in scripts.yaml, specifically a line containing data_template. It’s likely to be a template that is producing a null value (None) because it makes a faulty assumption about an entity’s availability.

[tom_l]

And it will be the second action in the script sequence (the count starts at 0):

@smallrebelarmy

data[‘sequence’][1]

[smallrebelarmy]

Great. Thank you. I’ll give it a go.

[smallrebelarmy]

Good strategy ! I’ll work that way.

[smallrebelarmy]

@123

data_template

Very helpful. It was a script i had tested for spotify that I had forgotten about. Thank you !

[123 (Taras)]

Post the faulty template so everyone can see why it produced None.

[smallrebelarmy]

This was the entry in my scripts.yaml that was giving me issues.

spotifygo:
  alias: 'Start go'
  sequence:
    - service: media_player.volume_set  #setting the volume is optional ofcourse
      data:
        entity_id: media_player.bedroom_speaker
        volume_level: 0.20
    - service: spotcast.start
      data_template:
        device_name: 'Bedroom speaker'
        media_content_id: "spotify:playlist:3FxSYNYfGxc0NINSxQ9x4t2Xd"
        media_content_type: playlist
        random_song: true