Use cycling input select values in template

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i’ve got a standing fan with an IR remote i am trying to automate. it has 8 speeds that cycle up or down (pressing ‘down’ when on ‘1’ goes to ‘8’). i want the IR command to be fired and the input select to be updated (so i can monitor the state) when i press and ‘up’ or ‘down’ button on the ui

I was trying to create and automation to send the code to the IR remote, but my brain is stuck on how to template this to make it simple. i had tried

{%- if trigger.from_state.state < trigger.to_state.state -%} select_next
      {%- else -%} select_previous {%- endif -%}

but that doesn’t account for the cycling “up” from ‘8’ to ‘1’ and down from ‘1’ to ‘8’. I could make a separate script just for this setting as its the only ‘cyclical one’ but i’m sure there’s a better way. any help is appreciated.

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as a service call…

- service: >
    {%- if trigger.from_state.state | float < trigger.to_state.state | float -%}
      input_select.select_next
    {%- else %}
      input_select.select_previous
    {%- endif %}
  target:
    entity_id: input_select.abc

or

- service: >
    input_select.select_{{ 'next' if trigger.from_state.state | float < trigger.to_state.state | float else 'previous' }}
  target:
    entity_id: input_select.abc

or

- service: >
    input_select.select_{{ iif(trigger.from_state.state | float < trigger.to_state.state | float, 'next', 'previous') }}
  target:
    entity_id: input_select.abc
3

hey thanks for the quick response. i’m not sure i’m understanding though. won’t this give me the same problem if its comparing the ‘from’ state to the ‘to’ state since 8 > 1, but the remote actually ‘decreases’ from 1 to 8 in a cycle if i press it when its on 1?

4

just call that out specifically then

{% set before = trigger.from_state.state | float %}
{% set after = trigger.to_state.state | float %}
{% if before == 8 and after == 1 %}
  input_select.select_next
{% elif before == 1 and after == 8 %}
  input_select.select_previous
{% elif before < after %}
  input_select.select_next
{% else %}
  input_select.select_previous
{% endif %}
5

Ah ok got it! Thank you very much