Using NFC tag last scanned in templates

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That’s what I was trying to replicate from dev states…perfect thx

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You’re welcome!

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Yeah, I don’t remember the exacts, but the simple forward way didn’t work (reliably) for some reason back then.
I use a mix of external NFC readers (ESP-Home) and the build in the phone one, i always had so scan twice or three times before the template switch would update if i scanned from a different device then the last one.
anyway, good to hear the straight forward way now works.

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You can name/rename tags under the config → tag tab

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then the cogwheel at the end:

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other than being more recognizable than the codes this doesn’t make it a usable entity…

For the last_scanned part see excellent suggestions in this thread.
You would have to create some template sensors

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Yeah definitely will mark post :+1:
Have one little issue I can’t resolve is getting time format
(month, day, year hour : min) only.
Nothing seems to work, I hate to keep bugging you over this. But sometimes that little stuff gets me. :rofl:
Hey thanks for all your help… I guess walking away helped!!! got to work
Again, thanks for all your hard work.
For some reason I don’t see the solved check box

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No worries. I thought you were the author of this topic. Only the topic’s author can mark a post with the Solution tag.

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OH yeah that’s right .lol
You’re awesome appreciate the hell out of it

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If anyone wants to see… this is end results
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This should get you where you need to go

input-boolean
  vitamins_taken:
    name: Vitamins
    icon: mdi:pill-multiple
    # icon: mdi:pill

# Automations
## Meds ##
  - alias: med1_Med
    description: 'Daily'
    trigger:
    - platform: tag
      tag_id: 88b98f79-c6d8-4bd7-bd1d-d74d4368ca75
    action:
    - service: input_boolean.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: input_boolean.med1_taken
## Resets ##
  - alias: Reset med1
    trigger:
    - platform: time
      at: "00:00:01"
    action: 
    - service: input_boolean.turn_off
      data:
        entity_id: input_boolean.med1_taken
        
# Template
## NFC_Scraping ##
  - trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: tag_scanned
    sensor:
      - name: NFC_LastTag_Scanned
        state: '{{ trigger.event.data.tag_id }}'
      - name: NFC_LastTime_Scanned
        state: '{{ trigger.event.time_fired }}'
## Date ##
  - trigger:
      - platform: tag
        tag_id: 88b98f79-c6d8-4bd7-bd1d-d74d4368ca75
    sensor:
      - name: NFC_med1_Date 
        state: "{{ as_timestamp(states('sensor.date_time_iso')) | timestamp_custom('%a %B %-d, %I:%M %p') }}"
        icon: "mdi:calendar-clock"

Thank you much @123 Taras so apreci!!

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If you’re interested, you can replace this:

{{ as_timestamp(states('sensor.date_time_iso')) | timestamp_custom('%a %B %-d, %I:%M %p') }}

with this:

{{ now().strftime('%a %B %-d, %I:%M %p') }}
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Retried that string and works this time… I guess it was my formatting before
thanks makes it simpler!