TTS and message templates

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Hi.

I am having trouble making my TTS work with message templates.
I am trying to do a welcome home announcement, depending on who just arrived home. The trigger works just fine, but I cant get my message to be played out, when I try working with if/else.

The service of my automation looks like this:

  action:
    - service: tts.google_say
      data_template:
        entity_id: media_player.livingroom
        message: >
          {% if (states.sensor.stue_motion_sensor_temp.state < 20) %}
            "Velkommen hjem, WonderMoose. Temperaturen i stuen er '{{ states.sensor.stue_motion_sensor_temp.state | round(0) }}' grader. Måske du burde overveje, at tænde op i brændeovnen."
          {% else %}
            "Velkommen hjem, WonderMoose. Temperaturen i stuen er '{{ states.sensor.stue_motion_sensor_temp.state | round(0) }}' grader."
          {% endif %} 
        language: "da"
    - service: input_boolean.turn_off
      entity_id: input_boolean.wondermoose_lige_kommet_hjem

The input boolean turns on when I arrive home, and turns off automatically after 3 minutes, or through this automation.
I cant seem to figure, where the message part dies. I have done this by looking at several examples. The tts works just fine, if I do a simple message with no if/else stuff. And then the boolean also turns off.
With the if/else stuff, the message is not read out, and the boolean is not turned off.

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try removing the quotation marks from around the outside of the messages. I had that bite me once on a message sent to alexa over tts.

And just to be sure force the 20 to an int

message: >
  {% if (states.sensor.stue_motion_sensor_temp.state | int < 20) %}
    Velkommen hjem, WonderMoose. Temperaturen i stuen er '{{ states.sensor.stue_motion_sensor_temp.state | round(0) }}' grader. Måske du burde overveje, at tænde op i brændeovnen.
  {% else %}
    Velkommen hjem, WonderMoose. Temperaturen i stuen er '{{ states.sensor.stue_motion_sensor_temp.state | round(0) }}' grader.
  {% endif %}
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Did you try the automation tts? I’m not sure the language part is defined in the automation, but in the tts setup in the configuration.yaml

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Forcing it to int worked! Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Stærkt :slight_smile: Den napper jeg da lige til at lave lidt sjov herhjemme :metal:

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