Using Input Select to set media player and streaming station

Configuration
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1

I have an input_button to execute an automation that will play the selected station on the selected media player. However, I am running into some issues and am not sure where I messed up. Can you please help?

**Input Select**
music_stations:
  name: Station List
  options:
    - 93XRT
    - 98 Rock

music_players:
  name: Music Player
  options:
    - media_player.echo_office
    - media_player.echo_dining_room

**Automation**
  - alias: Play Music
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: input_button.play_music
    action:
      - service: media_player.play_media
        entity_id: input_select.music_players
        data:
          media_content_type: "TUNEIN"
          media_content_id: input_select.music_stations
2

Uhh, where are you attempting to insert this YAML exactly? It looks like you’ve jumbled together bits and pieces for two template selects and one automation, but these parts can not be combined like this.

Template select go into your configuration.yaml (or linked in separate file(s)), while automations typically go into automations.yaml (or linked in separate file(s)). There are also a whole lot of mandatory code missing, and your indentation is a mess which is a problem as it is a part of the syntax.

3

Sorry for the confusion, I do have the input selects, input button and automation in the correct files. For the purpose of this example, I could have been more clear about that. I edited the above to reflect.

4

You are never getting the value of the input_select, you are literally attempting to play media with id “input_select.music_stations”.

**Automation**
  - alias: Play Music
    triggers:
      - trigger: state
        entity_id: input_button.play_music
    actions:
      - action: media_player.play_media
        target:
          entity_id: "{{ states('input_select.music_players') }}"
        data:
          media_content_type: "TUNEIN"
          media_content_id: "{{ states('input_select.music_stations') }}"

Also you were for some reason using the old automation syntax, which you should no longer do unless you for some reason is stuck on an old version of Home Assistant.

5

Ah ok, this makes a bit more sense now, thanks!

I ran the automation and am seeing this in my logs:

Error while executing automation automation.play_music: Error rendering service target template: UndefinedError: ‘input_select’ is undefined

6

Doh, add single quotes around the input_select ids within the templates (I’ve edited the code above). Always forget something when not testing code…