Use of secrets in an automation action not supported?

Configuration
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I would like to use secrets in my (telegram bot send photo) automation action, but whatever I try it fails. Does this mean that secrets are not supported (yet) in this case?
I saved 3 secrets like this

reolink_user: "admin"
reolink_password: "xxx"
reolink_url: "http://192.168.2.30/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=xxx&user=admin&password=xxx"

and try to use them in this automation:

- action: telegram_bot.send_photo
  data:
    authentication: digest
    url: !secret reolink_url
    username: !secret reolink_user
    password: !secret reolink_password
    caption: "Ring doorbel at {{ now().strftime('%H:%M') }}."
    entity_id: notify.telegram_bot_xxx
    config_entry_id: xxx

I can't save the automation because of:
Error parsing YAML: unknown tag !<!secret> (line: 33, column: 31)

and
Error: Failed to load URL: Request URL is missing an '[http://'](http://'/) or '[https://'](https://'/) protocol.

the full automation without secrets works:

alias: Doorbel
description: ""
triggers:
  - entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.deurbel_visitor
    to: "on"
    trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
  - data:
      authentication: digest
      url: http://192.168.2.30/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=xxx&user=admin&password=xxx
      caption: Ring doorbel at {{now().strftime('%H:%M')}}.
      entity_id: notify.telegram_bot_xxx
      username: admin
      password: xxx
      config_entry_id: xxx
    action: telegram_bot.send_photo
mode: queued
max: 10
2

You need to create the secret, then restart HA for the secrets to be read into memory before they are available.

3

thanks for the reply, yes its known that I need to restart HA, I already did that, but didn't solved the issue unfortunately.

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4

I don't think secrets are supported in the UI automation editor.

5

hm it works when I just edit the automation.yaml file in the HA installation folder