Use data sent to a script in a dict

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Hi, I am trying to send a name for a room as data to a script. That works fine. I would then like to get the correct knx group address (based on the room name) from a dict in that script. (In an atempt not to spread knx group address all over the dashboard). Here I get lost… I thought the address line in the knx send message should look like this where knx_lookup is my dict (room_name1: 1/1/2, room_name2: 1/2/2…):

address: "{{ knx_lookup["{{ room_name }}"] }}"

Obviously my lack of programming skills are apparent here. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Don’t nest templates, just use the variable:

address: "{{ knx_lookup[room_name] }}"
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Thanks, sadly that generates the following error:
‘’ is not a valid KNX group address: Invalid format @ data[‘address’][0]
I read this as it returns an empty string

4

Post the whole script. We can only work off the information you give us…

5

Thanks for helping out!

This is the Action data used in the button I have for launching the script

room_name: Office

This is the script:

sequence:
  - variables:
      knx_scenes: >-
        'Alexandra_bedroom':'1/5/0',   'Alexandra_livingroom':'1/5/1', 
        'Alexandra_bathroom':'1/5/2', 'Alexandra':'1/5/3', 
        'Guest_bath':'1/5/4',   'Office':'1/5/5',
        'Cornelia_livingroom':'1/5/6',   'Cornelia_bathroom':'1/5/7',  
        'Cornelia_bedroom':'1/5/8', 'Cornelia':'1/5/9'
  - action: knx.send
    data:
      response: false
      payload: 2
      type: "5.010"
      address: "{{ knx_scenes[room_name] }}"
alias: Enable knx scene dictionary

I get the following error:

Failed to perform the action script/enable_knx_scene_dictionary. '' is not a valid KNX group address: Invalid format @ data['address'][0]

It works fine when I send the address directly to the script but the dict seems to mess it all up for me.
Thanks!

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sequence:
  - variables:
      knx_scenes:
        Alexandra_bedroom: '1/5/0'
        Alexandra_livingroom: '1/5/1' 
        Alexandra_bathroom: '1/5/2'
        Alexandra: '1/5/3' 
        Guest_bath: '1/5/4'
        Office: '1/5/5'
        Cornelia_livingroom: '1/5/6'
        Cornelia_bathroom: '1/5/7'  
        Cornelia_bedroom: '1/5/8'
        Cornelia: '1/5/9'
  - action: knx.send
    data:
      response: false
      payload: 2
      type: "5.010"
      address: "{{ knx_scenes[room_name] }}"
alias: Enable knx scene dictionary

This is dict defined in YAML.

  - variables:
      knx_scenes:
        Alexandra_bedroom: '1/5/0'
        Alexandra_livingroom: '1/5/1' 
        Alexandra_bathroom: '1/5/2'
        Alexandra: '1/5/3' 
        Guest_bath: '1/5/4'
        Office: '1/5/5'
        Cornelia_livingroom: '1/5/6'
        Cornelia_bathroom: '1/5/7'  
        Cornelia_bedroom: '1/5/8'
        Cornelia: '1/5/9'

This is dict defined in Jinja2.

  - variables:
      knx_scenes: >-
        {'Alexandra_bedroom':'1/5/0',   'Alexandra_livingroom':'1/5/1', 
        'Alexandra_bathroom':'1/5/2', 'Alexandra':'1/5/3', 
        'Guest_bath':'1/5/4',   'Office':'1/5/5',
        'Cornelia_livingroom':'1/5/6',   'Cornelia_bathroom':'1/5/7',  
        'Cornelia_bedroom':'1/5/8', 'Cornelia':'1/5/9'}

Your version was almost a Jinja2 dict but lacked the outer braces.

7

Thank you so much. I guess this is what happens when you don’t have the right knowledge and try to let AI code for you… Thanks again

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For what it’s worth, LLM bullshit engines are pretty lousy at anything but the absolute basics of Home Assistant configuration. They produce a lot of plausible-looking, non-functional slop. Keep in mind that HA updates frequently and that the majority of available training data that its answer will be based on are either old and/or from people posting non-working configs here or on Reddit.

Deciphering and correcting LLM slop often requires a higher level of knowledge and more time than it takes to search the docs and the forums.