hass-variables

A Home Assistant component to declare and set/update variables (state).

Install

Manualy

Copy variable folder in to your home-assistant custom_components folder

Automaticaly with HACS

In HACS settings, add a custom repository with:

• URL: https://github.com/rogro82/hass-variables
• type: integration

Then the variable custom component will be installable through HACS and you will be able to follow the future updates.

Configure

Add the component variable to your configuration and declare the variables you want.

Example configuration

variable:
  countdown_timer:
    value: 30
    attributes:
      friendly_name: 'Countdown'
      icon: mdi:alarm
  countdown_trigger:
    name: Countdown
    value: False
  light_scene:
    value: 'normal'
    attributes:
      previous: ''
    restore: true

A variable 'should' have a value and can optionally have a name and attributes, which can be used to specify additional values but can also be used to set internal attributes like icon, friendly_name etc.

In case you want your variable to restore its value and attributes after restarting you can set restore to true.

Set variables from automations

To update a variables value and/or its attributes you can use the service call variable.set_variable

The following parameters can be used with this service:

• variable: string (required) The name of the variable to update
• value: any (optional) New value to set
• value_template: template (optional) New value to set from a template
• attributes: dictionary (optional) Attributes to set or update
• attributes_template: template (optional) Attributes to set or update from a template ( should return a json object )
• replace_attributes: boolean ( optional ) Replace or merge current attributes (default false = merge)

Example service calls

action:
  - service: variable.set_variable
    data:
      variable: test_timer
      value: 30

action:
  - service: variable.set_variable
    data:
      variable: last_motion
      value: "livingroom"
      attributes_template: >
        {
          "history_1": "{{ variable.state }}",
          "history_2": "{{ variable.attributes.history_1 }}",
          "history_3": "{{ variable.attributes.history_2 }}"
        }

Example timer automation

variable:
  test_timer:
    value: 0
    attributes:
      icon: mdi:alarm

script:
  schedule_test_timer:
    sequence:
      - service: variable.set_variable
        data:
          variable: test_timer
          value: 30
      - service: automation.turn_on
        data:
          entity_id: automation.test_timer_countdown

automation:
  - alias: test_timer_countdown
    initial_state: 'off'
    trigger:
      - platform: time_pattern
        seconds: '/1'
    action:
      - service: variable.set_variable
        data:
          variable: test_timer
          value_template: '{{ [((variable.state | int) - 1), 0] | max }}'

  - alias: test_timer_trigger
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: variable.test_timer
      to: '0'
    action:
      - service: automation.turn_off
        data:
          entity_id: automation.test_timer_countdown

More examples can be found in the examples folder.