Wait_for_trigger in cover errors?

Configuration
1

HI,

I am defining a template cover. This basically works fine, but if I include the wait_for_trigger bit in the definition

        open_cover:
          - variables:
              sunscreener: "{{is_state('input_boolean.blind_sunscreener_kids_auto', 'on')}}"
          - service: cover.open_cover
            target:
              entity_id: cover.blind_kids
          - wait_for_trigger:                 <--------------- THIS ONE
              - platform: numeric_state
                entity_id: sensor.blind_kids_power
                below: 5
                for: "0:00:01"
            timeout: "0:01:00"
          - if:
              - "{{sunscreener}}"
            then:
              - service: input_boolean.turn_on
                target:
                  entity_id: input_boolean.blind_sunscreener_kids_auto

I then get a crazy error in the logs:

2023-08-09 16:22:29.592 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity s
2023-08-09 16:22:29.666 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity e
2023-08-09 16:22:29.693 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity n
2023-08-09 16:22:29.750 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity s
2023-08-09 16:22:29.763 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity o
2023-08-09 16:22:29.774 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity r
2023-08-09 16:22:29.813 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity .
2023-08-09 16:22:29.882 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity b
2023-08-09 16:22:29.940 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity l
2023-08-09 16:22:29.984 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity i
2023-08-09 16:22:30.048 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity n
2023-08-09 16:22:30.118 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity d
2023-08-09 16:22:30.160 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity _
2023-08-09 16:22:30.222 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity k
2023-08-09 16:22:30.276 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity i
2023-08-09 16:22:30.284 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity d
2023-08-09 16:22:30.287 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity s
2023-08-09 16:22:30.289 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity _
2023-08-09 16:22:30.290 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity p
2023-08-09 16:22:30.291 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity o
2023-08-09 16:22:30.293 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity w
2023-08-09 16:22:30.295 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity e
2023-08-09 16:22:30.300 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.numeric_state] Error initializing 'Blind Kids' trigger: In 'numeric_state' condition: unknown entity r

Should this be a legal config? Is it a bug? Or have I messed something up? Removing the wait_for_trigger stops the error.

Thanks

2

I’d personally move all that to a script and call the script from the template cover.

3

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Doesn’t really make sense…
Maybe some hidden characters in your source. Try to retype the code from scratch.

4

Crazy but retyping it seems to have fixed it – VS Code was finding the string ok, so I presume there wasn’t anything in between the letters. Maybe something funny at the end? Who knows. Mysteries.

Thanks!