You Need Number Helpers in your Home Assistant setup

Number Helpers can give you an easy way to modify your automations, templates sensors, and more from the dashboard, so if you are not using them already, check out three ways they can help you level up your Home Assistant setup.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro to Using Number Helpers to modify Templates, Scripts, Automations, and more from a dashboard in Home Assistant
00:50 - Use a Number Helper for master Volume Control in Home Assistant
03:47 - Use a Number Helper to adjust a template sensor in Home Assistant
06:01 - Create a custom light transition using a number helper in Home Assistant

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My Name is Jeff. I am an DIY-er and Automator of boring things. And, of course, a huge Home Assistant fan. Oh, I also live in a house that tweets.

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[DJohnsonDC]

Jeff, you're missing quotes at 5:25... The Jinja Ninjas are coming for you!

[BroncoPatriot]

Thanks to you on previous videos I moved to many helpers. Transitions, light timeouts for daytime, evening and sleep, door autolock and now will be using this for volumes. Definitely do a video on your helper scripts that are general purpose. Love to learn more!!

[MarkGhali]

Saw your notification and got pumped? I always learn something! Timers have been amazing since watching your video. Thank you Jeff

[hilton]

Thanks so much for this video! I've been wrestling with how to access numeric helpers for my Halloween sound automations. I have a number of tracks on DFPlayer(Sound)/D1 mini (ESPHome) modules, and didn't want to write automations for each track. Your video got me straightened out in about 5 minutes!

[lee-heey]

This is exactly what I was looking for.. I have zigbee plugs controlling oil radiators linked to Aqara temp sensors that work outside of my hive schedule. The temperature is a hardcoded number in a HA automation which required a manual change. Now I can add a slider on the dashboard.. Nice one Jeff.

While true, I'd have loved a blog more than a video :)

[technithusiast]

Have you tried automating with node-red? Though you could do really similar stuff with the jinja templates it would be interesting to see what you come up with since node red offers some unique flexibility

[chrisdixon]

Hi Jeff, great video as always!
Slightly confused that in the 3rd example you test for the value < 256 in your sequence, but your input helper max was set to 255, meaning that when you increment again at max brightness it won't increase and will never trip your stopping condition. Or did I misunderstand something?
Either way I think the idea and way to use it is clear, thanks for your efforts to help us all get more out of our automations

[DonClassifieds]

I get required key not provided @ data['volume_level']. Got None when run automation ive made the helper please advise need help?

[chunkkingmann]

Love your videos, too. Especially the Jarvis connections. In this one, at 5:33, I noticed you spelled "threashold" with an extra 'a' but the helper was "threshold" - does the difference in spelling cause issues? Don't fat fingers (like ours) cause issues? LOL.

[DKlim]

How can this be used to change the value of timers?

[TareK]

can i connect my homekit devices to homeassistant pls can you show me how
i need to get all my homekit devices in to homeassistant so i can use homeassistant dashbord

[mohsinmubarak]

Hi, Kindly suggest me alternate SBC for core of my smart home. I'm looking for SBC to install homebridge or homeassistant

[fibranijevidra]

That is all fine, but what when you wanna restore music volume level after TTS notification. Create scene works with my lights, but not with amazon echo devices. Thanks for the helpful videos.

[j-ry]

And if there would be a way to just program these kind of things with say javascript, the automation would be much more clear in what it's doing & using variables, arrays, etc. would come as standard.

[MarkGhali]

Jeff, do you have a video on just templating? I am trying to get into that and there is just so much to know. Seeing your presence template, I want that!

[mrxmry]

how did you learn all this? is there a tutorial somewhere?

[ssmon]

I tried using a number helper, but I keep running into the same error, which I haven't been able to solve:

Error: Message malformed: expected float for dictionary value @ data['condition'][0]['above']

condition: numeric_state
entity_id:
above: {{ | float }}