Trouble calling homeassistant service from esphome

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Hi everyone, long time home assistant tinkerer, new to esphome.
I’m 99% this is just a formatting/ YAML issue on my part but I cannot get it to work for the life of me.

I have a rotary encoder hooked to a D1 mini.

The following code works exactly as intended:

sensor:
  - platform: rotary_encoder
    name: "Rotary Encoder"
    pin_a: D3
    pin_b: D2
    
    on_clockwise:
     - logger.log: "Turned Clockwise"

    on_anticlockwise:
     - logger.log: "Turned Anticlockwise"

This shows events being logged so I know the hardware and basic config are working.

If I call the service below in developer tools it works as expected:

service: light.turn_on
data:
  brightness_step_pct: 10
target:
  entity_id: light.office

So far so good.
But if I try to put it all together like this it doesn’t work:

sensor:
  - platform: rotary_encoder
    name: "Rotary Encoder"
    pin_a: D3
    pin_b: D2
    
    on_clockwise:
     - logger.log: "Turned Clockwise"
     - homeassistant.service:
        service: light.turn_on
          data:
            brightness_step_pct: 10
          target:
            entity_id: light.office

The editor in HA doesn’t show any error but when I try to upload it I get the following message:

mapping values are not allowed here
in “/config/esphome/esphome-test-1.yaml”, line 86, column 15:
data:
^

I’ve googled the error and not got anywhere, if anyone can point me in the right direction I’d be very grateful.

2

Think you data: is too far to the right. 2 spaces left…

3

Getting there now :slight_smile:
Thanks

That resolved the first problem.
It also turns out that homeassistant.service doesn’t support “target” so the entity had to go in to the main part of data.

Working code below:

sensor:
  - platform: rotary_encoder
    name: "Rotary Encoder"
    pin_a: D3
    pin_b: D2
    
    on_clockwise:
     - logger.log: "Turned Clockwise"
     - homeassistant.service:
        service: light.turn_on
        data:
            brightness_step_pct: "10"
            entity_id: light.office
     
    
    on_anticlockwise:
     - logger.log: "Turned Anticlockwise"
     - homeassistant.service:
        service: light.turn_on
        data:
            brightness_step_pct: "-10"
            entity_id: light.office
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