Hi,
I’m having a problem to pass telegram chat id to my script. The idea is to take name from input_select and build a string that matches to one in secrets. Pass this to telegram to send messages. But does not seem to work.
Here’s the data:
script
search_selected_phone:
sequence:
- service: telegram_bot.send_message
data_template:
# below line does not work
target: !secret telegram_chat_id_{{states("input_select.lost_phones").lower()}}
# below line works
# target: !secret telegram_chat_id_juha #{{states("input_select.lost_phones").lower()}}
title: 'Searching phone'
secrets
telegram_chat_id_juha: '123456'
telegram_chat_id_tiina: '654321'
input select
input_select:
lost_phones:
name: Phone to search
options:
- Tiina
- Juha
I tried putting quotes to varying places around {{ }} and the whole thing. No positive results.
Error i get
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Invalid service data for telegram_bot.send_message: expected int @ data['target'][0]. Got '!'
Any tips how to select correct chat id without hardcoding it to the script page with if else template?