Trigger various scripts with input slider

edmogeor · July 5, 2017, 9:12pm

What I am trying to do is to link an input slider to 10 different scripts. So for example when the slider’s value is 1 I want to trigger a script, if the sliders value is 2 then activate another script and so on.

An example of the script i would like to trigger is:
script:
amp_mute:
alias: Mute
sequence:
- service: broadlink.send_packet_192_168_1_79
data:
packet:
-“JgBgADEAAZQLaAhkCycQYgwkFRsbHRtbEBscHB5VGRofJRFRHxkeUBxSG1QdGBwABKFubh5RH08dGxxTHlAeGhxSHRsdGh0bHk4cGx8ZHVEdGx4aHVIcGh1SHFMcUxwYHQANBQAAAAAAAAAA”

is this possible?

turboc · July 5, 2017, 10:51pm

I think you would have to do it with 10 different automations…or, it might be a good application for one of the new python scripts.
You could trap a change to the input slider, and as the action, have the python script get the state of the slider, and then go through an if elif condition to decide what to do off of each state… That might work…

danichispa · July 6, 2017, 4:34am

Haven’t tested that, but maybe you can use templating to select the script to launch.
If you have your input slider from 1 to 10, and your scripts named my_script_number_1, my_script_number_2, etc…
Something like this:

- trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: input_slider.your_input_slider
  action:
    - service: script.turn_on
      data_template:
        entity_id: script.my_script_number_{{ trigger.to_state.state }}

rqleslie · September 11, 2017, 7:14pm

Hi Everyone,

I have an LED Dimmer module that I control via script commands. If I could link this to a input slider that would be great.

I found this post - Send message to IP:PORT But unfortunately have not be able to link my scripts to an input slider.

So far my script looks like:

kitchen:
alias: Kitchen Brightness
sequence:
- service_template: >
{% if brightness == 100 %}
shell_command.quinled_kitchen_100
{% elif brightness == 75 %}
shell_command.quinled_kitchen_75
{% elif brightness == 50 %}
shell_command.quinled_kitchen_50
{% elif brightness == 35 %}
shell_command.quinled_kitchen_35
{% elif brightness == 15 %}
shell_command.quinled_kitchen_15
{% elif brightness == 00 %}
shell_command.quinled_kitchen_00
{% else %}
//NOTIFY YOURSELF because this should not happen
{% endif %}

Any advise / help would be appreciated

PhyberApex · September 12, 2017, 7:26am

First off please use preformatted text for configs. Also we would need a bit more info here. Could you post the config of all components involved (Not the scripts obviously)? Right now I can’t understand where 'brightness ’ comes from.

~Cheers

rqleslie · September 12, 2017, 8:05pm

Thanks for the reply - I have tweaked the script as per below based on another post I found.

configuration.yaml

input_slider:
  kitchen_brightness:
    name: Kitchen Brightness
    initial: 5
    min: 0
    max: 5
    step: 1

Scripts.yaml

  kitchen:
    alias: Kitchen Brightness
    sequence:
      - service_template: >
          {% if states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state == 5 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_100
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 4 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_75
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 3 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_50
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 2 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_35
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 1 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_15
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 0 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_00
          {% else %}
            //NOTIFY YOURSELF because this should not happen
          {% endif %}

shell_commands.yaml

quinled_kitchen_100: sh /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/shell_commands/quinled_kitchen_100.sh
quinled_kitchen_75: sh /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/shell_commands/quinled_kitchen_75.sh
quinled_kitchen_50: sh /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/shell_commands/quinled_kitchen_50.sh
quinled_kitchen_35: sh /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/shell_commands/quinled_kitchen_35.sh
quinled_kitchen_15: sh /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/shell_commands/quinled_kitchen_15.sh
quinled_kitchen_00: sh /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/shell_commands/quinled_kitchen_00.sh

PhyberApex · September 12, 2017, 10:09pm

Can you test out your if statements in the dev tools to make sure that they work?

~Cheers

rqleslie · September 13, 2017, 4:11pm

shell commands work fine via dev tools, the slider input does not do anything. not sure how to test the script?

rqleslie · September 13, 2017, 4:17pm

ok, so if i run the script via dev tools as per attached, I get the below - but sure I am not using the correct formant for service data option.

2017-09-13 16:19:32 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api] WS 1853298480: Message incorrectly formatted: expected dict for dictionary value @ data[‘service_data’]. Got 5
2017-09-13 16:19:39 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api] WS 1852870352: Message incorrectly formatted: expected dict for dictionary value @ data[‘service_data’]. Got 2
2017-09-13 16:19:58 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api] WS 1850307792: Message incorrectly formatted: expected dict for dictionary value @ data[‘service_data’]. Got 5
2017-09-13 16:20:37 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Template rendered invalid service: //NOTIFY YOURSELF because this should not happen
2017-09-13 16:20:58 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api] WS 1922534480: Message incorrectly formatted: expected dict for dictionary value @ data[‘service_data’]. Got 5
2017-09-13 16:21:17 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Template rendered invalid service: //NOTIFY YOURSELF because this should not happen
2017-09-13 16:14:54 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.service] Template rendered invalid service: //NOTIFY YOURSELF because this should not happen

PhyberApex · September 13, 2017, 9:37pm

I meant to check the template for rendering. You can just paste this

{% if states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state == 5 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_100
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 4 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_75
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 3 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_50
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 2 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_35
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 1 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_15
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== 0 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_00
          {% else %}
            //NOTIFY YOURSELF because this should not happen
          {% endif %}

in there. The template dev tool is the fourth one from the left. You can then play around with your if clauses to check whats wrong. e.g. does this

{{ if states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state == 5 }}

return true if your slider is on 5? If no what does

{{ states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state }}

return etc.

~Cheers

rqleslie · September 14, 2017, 6:03am

OK - so if I run below as suggested I have figured out that the slider value is 1.0 / 2.0 / etc and not just 0 / 1 / etc. Getting an error on the first command that I am not sure how to correct.

{{ if states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state == 5.0 }}

I get

When I run

{{ states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state }}

I get

PhyberApex · September 14, 2017, 7:06am

Sorry that was an error on my end…

{{ if states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state == 5.0 }}

should be

{{ states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state == 5.0 }}

If you try it with

{{ states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state | int }}

You should get what you need. Either use the | int or check for 5.0 etc.

~Cheers

rqleslie · September 14, 2017, 4:21pm

Thanks - getting there

I get a value of “5” with below command

06 PM

and “5.0” with

19 PM

When moving my slider it is not invoking the scripts, and I suspect its because I am not getting a “true” with below commands… but not sure how to troubleshoot further…

PhyberApex · September 15, 2017, 5:51am

You have two options here either use:

          {% if states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state == "5.0" %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_100
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== "4.0" %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_75
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== "3.0" %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_50
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== "2.0" %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_35
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== "1.0" %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_15
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state== "0.0" %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_00
          {% else %}
            //NOTIFY YOURSELF because this should not happen
          {% endif %}

or use

          {% if states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state | int == 5 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_100
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state | int == 4 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_75
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state | int == 3 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_50
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state | int == 2 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_35
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state | int == 1 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_15
          {% elif states.input_slider.kitchen_brightness.state | int == 0 %}
            shell_command.quinled_kitchen_00
          {% else %}
            //NOTIFY YOURSELF because this should not happen
          {% endif %}

if you are sure there are only integers coming from that slider I think the second would be the best. Also please replace //NOTIFY YOURSELF because this should not happen with an actual service call

~Cheers

PS: The reason for this is that the state seems to return a string…and you compare it with numbers the double quotes tell the jinja2 engine that it is a string and the | int tells the engine that it should convert what comes before it into an integer.

rqleslie · September 15, 2017, 6:11am

Awesome !! this script now works and I get the required responses I believe from the dev tools.

I just need to link the slider to interact correctly - will play around over the weekend. Thanks very much

Bananaskin · January 12, 2018, 5:57am

Did you manage to get your input_slider / input_number to function correctly? If so could you share the workings as I have a need for the same functionality to control 2 relays.

Thanks.

Bananaskin · January 27, 2018, 7:12am

If anyone is wondering, here is the solution that I found to the slider calling a script file.

So running a slightly later version of HA than that which uses input_slider (0.61.1) which changes input_slider to input_number.

input_number:
  heat_temperature:
    name: Heating Power 1-5
    initial: 1
    min: 1
    max: 5
    step: 1

shell_command:
  set_heat_to_slider: "bash /path.to/homeassistant/.homeassistant/fire.{{ states.input_number.heat_temperature.state }}"
  
  - alias: "Pellet Heat Setting"   
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: input_number.heat_temperature
    action:
      service: shell_command.set_heat_to_slider

The script that this calls are fire.X.0 where X is the corresponding input_number.

Hope this helps

Bananaskin