Templates in Home Assistant - what they are and how to use them!

[@jaap7374]

Even after a few years, still the best explanation video on templating.

[@MarkKoster]

Never found a good video about templating untill now. Thanks man!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Happy to help!

[@1endell]

Thanks Buddy! With your help i can now extract the power, voltage and consuption from Sonoff POW R2

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Glad I could help

[@1endell]

​ @Will Surridge Tech You always do, man! Thanks for sharing all of those clever ideas about automation. Cheers from Brazil

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thank you!

[@rob1971]

Another helpful video Will, and thanks for slowing the pace 👍🏻

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thanks for the feedback Rob! Glad it’s better! :)

[@abwino]

Thank you for this explanation, helped me solve a problem I had been working on !

[@WillSurridgeTech]

You're welcome!

[@favaron]

Great video Will. Have subscribed. Looking forward to more videos. If you're up for topic suggestions - I'm curious about how to take my z wave and zigbee networks hooked on USB sticks and converting to an MQTT solution.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thanks for the sub! I'm hopefully going to dive into zigbee at some point - but probably with the sonoff hub rather than a usb stick

[@pashadavidson6808]

Great video, Will! I've been hesitant about getting into templates, but this won me over.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Glad I could help! Templates is the answer!

[@leopold7562]

Interesting... I’ve not considered templates before, but the way you explained it here, I may just give them a go. I don’t sub lightly, but I’ve decided your content on the whole has been pretty useful, so you’ve earned a sub 👍

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Fab, glad I could help :)

[@jasondion7587]

This is great! Nice job! Going to go play with templates now.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thank you! Good luck!

[@PM13501]

Will, well done...very elegantly explained!!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thank you kindly!

[@cryptno-g9473]

excellent timing, just when i need to do this! thank you.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

So glad I could help!

[@DarthWuschel]

Thank you!!! Great Infos. This gave me the missing hint I needed to go further.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Glad I could help :)

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

awesome stuff yo, cheers for your work

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Much appreciated!

[@joetrueman3555]

Interesting. Thank you, Will :)

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thanks Joe!

[@frogeye22]

Great content - I've just subscribed! (just take one step back from the camera though please, I'm feeling a bit like my personal space is being invaded !)

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Haha, thank you for the sub!

[@waynenocton]

This helped me a lot, but as usual I didn’t quite get it all right. I have a Shelly operating a garage door, but it doesn’t know the state, so if it’s open it closes, and if it’s closed, it opens. Separately I installed a 422mhz magnetic reed switch, and with the help of this video and links I got them grouped together. But one issue, the icon changes to yellow when the door is open, I’d like it to change to show and opened door. Anyone point me in the right direction?

[@Cryptobob]

Hi, great videos. Can you also make a video how to change a color icon when a certain value has reached? For example when a value is between 200 and 400 the icon must be red, otherwise green. I guess you have to install custom-ui??? Thanks man!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Hi! If you check out this video I change the icon colour based on the state value using the custom button card - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqDIh4iYhpWAack Let me know if you have any further questions!

[@Cryptobob]

Will Surridge Tech I will check it out, thanks!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

no worries, hope it works!

[@waynenocton]

Maybe this is simple and I just don’t get it when everyone else does, but what’s the difference between an entity and a device?

[@docteurzoidberg]

i found your channel. and i like it!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thank you!

[@DannyDM00]

I like your enthousiasm :)

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thank you!

[@davidwalker575]

Thanks Will! Quick question, why is the value template is_state ...’on’ if all your trying to do is to show the state of the sensor?

[@photelegy]

How to use templates in a card (e.g. picture-element-card) to differ e.g. the color depending on a input_boolean?

[@aakashrajput6309]

Hi, Bro can you help me, I am trying to set esp32 as gateway for multiple sensor spread around my house... idea is to gateway(esp32) fetch data from all the sensors in its range, the problem is it is causing multiple entities to be created in home assistant

[@dartfrogdk]

Well done

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thank you!

[@Grrr2048]

Hi Will, Great video with interesting content, Any chance you could help me with something ... I am trying to create an entity that calculates the number of days that have occurred since a date in the past i.e. between 2020-04-02 and now. any help will be appreciated.

[@AdemKazkondu]

I want to change the states in the Overview HOME and AWAY. I Want "AT Work" and not "HOME". I Use it in my Office. Is that possible with templates?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Check this out - www.home-assistant.io/integrations/template/#renaming-sensor-output

[@SatsACart]

Great video Will and thanks for supporting me with my thermostat fan speed! It is working amazingly!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

No problem 👍

[@Shaq2k]

Nice. But how do you actually use the templates for something?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

It depends on what you're wanting to do - you just write the template to manipulate one value into another

[@StePhanMckillen]

10 out 10 bro like the lock template. Look like i be doing some reading thanks. Dont do the facebook thing so I just subscribe to you OK and hit the bell :)

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Fab thank you! Glad you like it!

[@muslimpoonawala762]

Sir i am trying to animate my fan icon. i found the below code to add a template and one more code to add to lovelace. I want to know how to create the template for the first code button_card_templates: ceiling-fan-icon-settings: show_icon: true show_label: false show_name: false styles: card: - height: 36px - width: 50px grid: - grid-template-areas: '"i"' - grid-template-columnns: auto icon: - height: 26px - width: 26px state: - value: 'on' spin: true where do i enter the top code? the second code to add to lovelace is easy: - type: custom:button-card template: ceiling-fan-icon-settings entity: switch.24578876840d8e891ee7 tap_action: action: call-service service: switch.toggle service_data: entity_id: switch.24578876840d8e891ee7

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Templates for lovelace cards are different to home assistant templates.If you are editing lovelace using the yaml, then the top code just needs to go into your ui-lovelace file

[@michaelbatchelder]

Apparently I need more research because nothing has worked thus far. Again copied what I thought would be relevant and got error "end of the stream or a document separator is expected at line 4, column 5:" Sensor.yaml - platform: template sensors: battery_voltage: friendly_name: 'Battery Voltage' value_template: "{{ ('sensor.tasmota_dht11_range' | float / 100 | round(2) )}}v" tested {{ ('sensor.tasmota_dht11_range' | float / 100 | round(2) )}}v in the Developer tools template section and no errors and showed what I was looking for, so you must need more to the file. your vids must be for the more advanced user, cause nothing has worked and I am suspecting I am leaving out something obvious to other users

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Hi Michael, if you could send me your code with pastebin on facebook I'll have a look and see what I can do - I'm trying to make my videos as accessible as possible :)

[@michaelbatchelder]

@@WillSurridgeTech my configuration.yaml is extremely basic, nothing in there except the includes. As for the sensor.yaml, you see it, the whole thing is listed above 5 lines of code starting from "- platform: template"... it is a direct copy and paste... Any help is extremely welcomed. Again, new setup.. I haven't even figured how to ssh into my pi, can't even use the login from pi itself, must be a default user created during install that is different from the one you use to see hassio GUI. I do get the sensor data via lovelace and I can use line 5 in the template test interface.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

If you drop me a message on fb.com/WillSurridgeTech I will get back to you on there - much easier to have a conversation and try to figure out the problem than via comments :)

[@heimdallmidgard4670]

Or you just use a group for the persons.

[@scubart]

Completely useless for beginners. 90% of the time a large talking head tells you WHAT is possible but now HOW to do it.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thank you for your feedback. I’m more than happy to help you with any specific questions. In the description is a link to the code for the examples I made during the video which will hopefully clear things up.

[@wangouthangout]

Ok... But does this create a new sensor in lovelace? I can never find a new sensor created? Do I need to enable something?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

This will create a new sensor (or whatever the template is) - you will be able to see it in the entities section of the supervisor tab; you can then add it to your lovelace however you usually edit it