Webhook automations based on data

Configuration
1

Hello,
I have configured a working ifttt webhook automation to fill Google keep list (from here)

- alias: Google Keep list update from google assistant and ifttt
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: ifttt_webhook_received
    event_data:
      action: call_service
  action:
    service_template: '{{ trigger.event.data.service }}'
    data_template:
      title: '{{ trigger.event.data.title }}'
      things: '{{ trigger.event.data.things }}'

I want to add another webhook to change the state of an input_boolean.
I have defined it like this on ifttt:

{ "action":"call_service", "service":"input_boolean.turn_on", "entity_id": "input_boolean.living_ac" }

However, I get an error when using the webhook, I get an error from the automation:

2019-08-23 00:30:37 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection.1777890832] Sending {'id': 2, 'type': 'event', 'event': {'event_type': 'ifttt_webhook_received', 'data': {'action': 'call
_service', 'service': 'input_boolean.turn_on', 'entity_id': 'input_boolean.living_ac', 'webhook_id': 'abcdefgh12345678abcdefgh12345678abcdefgh12345678'}, 'origin': 'LOCAL', 'time_fired': datetime.date
time(2019, 8, 22, 21, 30, 37, 147999, tzinfo=<UTC>), 'context': {'id': 'abcdefgh12345678', 'parent_id': None, 'user_id': None}}}
2019-08-23 00:30:37 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation] Executing Google Keep list update from google assistant and ifttt
2019-08-23 00:30:37 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script Google Keep list update from google assistant and ifttt: Running script
2019-08-23 00:30:37 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script Google Keep list update from google assistant and ifttt: Executing step call service
2019-08-23 00:30:37 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation] Error while executing automation automation.google_keep_list_update_from_google_assistant_and_ifttt. Invalid data for call_service at pos 1
: extra keys not allowed @ data['title']

If I understand correctly, the automation expects a non-existing field “title”.
So I thought about adding a condition to the automation to ignore it if the field does not exist:

  condition:
    - condition: template
      value_template: '{% if trigger.event.data.title != none %}True{% else %}False{% endif %}'

But it doesn’t seem to work. Nor does this:

      value_template: '{% if trigger.event.data.title is not defined %}True{% else %}False{% endif %}'

what am I doing wrong?

2

So I found out what’s wrong. Me. After battling with it for a few hours, I was able to solve only after posting here. Anyway, this worked:

value_template: '{% if trigger.event.data.title is not defined %}True{% else %}False{% endif %}'

Also to make the 2nd part work, I needed to create a second automation, as the webhook does not work without it:

- alias: Turn on input_boolean.living_ac from IFTTT
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: ifttt_webhook_received
    event_data:
      action: call_service
  action:
    service_template: '{{ trigger.event.data.service }}'
    data_template:
      entity_id: '{{ trigger.event.data.entity_id }}'
3

You had the exact same problem as me, and you found the same solution…just one question, this solution implies that every time we will receive a ifttt webhook one of the two automations will die on error and the other one will work correctly, depending on the data passed through the webhook.
That’s correct?

4

You can add an extra item in the body like “service”:“service1” in IFTTT then add a condition in the automation trigger looking for that item.

  condition:
    - condition: template
      value_template: "{{ trigger.event.data.service == 'service1' }}"
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5

Don’t know what I was missing, because I had tried putting a condition but it wasn’t working…your code is fine! Thank you so much!