Two input_text passed to an automation

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Hello,

I would like to pass two input_text to one automation, lovelace card looks as follows:
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I would like to add some action button and when I type both texts and press buttton then would like to trigger automation and pass to it both input_text fields.
Could you advise?

BR

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Hi, what is the exact actions you are thinking off? Normally you get the text by calling the state of the input_text

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I would like to pass those two texts from input_text into shell command as an arguments.

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Add a script to the bottom of the card. It will appear with an execute button, press the button, run the script.

The script being to call your shell command.

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What you mean add script to the bottom of card?
I cannot add script as an entity in entity list.

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You cannot “pass” anything to an automation. An automation does not receive variables it is designed to trigger when certain events occur.

You can pass variables to a script. Documentation reference: Passing variables to scripts

If these are the only two input_texts that will ever be used by the script, then you don’t even need to pass their values as variables. The script can directly reference each input_text’s value.

Here’s an example of what I mean:

I have two input_texts:

input_text.text_1
input_text.text_2

I created the following script, called script.combine_texts, which simply combines the values of the two input texts and displays them as a persistent_notification.

combine_texts:
  alias: Combine Texts
  sequence:
  - service: persistent_notification.create
    data:
      title: Combined Message
      message: "{{ states('input_text.text_1') }} {{ states('input_text.text_2') }}"
  mode: single

I created an Entities card containing the two input_texts and the script. Here is how it appears after I entered some text in the input_texts:

Screenshot from 2021-02-21 09-21-02

When I click EXECUTE, the script is executed and it produces the following persistent_notification. The important point here is that it directly references the values of the two input_texts.

Screenshot from 2021-02-21 09-20-50

That was the simplest example and it can be more sophisticated. For example, you may wish to use a button to execute the script.

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Thank you, will test this solution, looks good.

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