WTH - Variables should work throughout the Automation&Scripts

[Merexor]

I often wanted to optimize automations and, for example, write the text to a variable in speech output and then output it. However, this only works in a certain area of ​​the automation and not everywhere in the automation. Most of the time I had to discard the supposed optimization.

[petro]

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WTH can't we have simple automation/script scope variables?

I was recently working on an automation where it is triggered by a specific state and I wanted to check for additional states then WAIT and check if those states where still the same. Turns out you can set variables in automations but for some reason can’t have a variable that has a scope of an automation? So I needed to go create a helper entities and set and check that. So why don’t we have variables that are for the scope of a single automation or script? They would be very useful? I don’t …