Mastering Scripts in Home Assistant: A Comprehensive Guide

In this comprehensive tutorial, we delve deep into "Unlocking the Power of Scripts in Home Assistant: Mastering Automation and Customization." Discover how to efficiently harness the potential of scripts in Home Assistant, the all-in-one smart home automation platform. With step-by-step guidance and practical examples, this video covers everything you need to know about scripts - from the basics to advanced techniques using fields and response variables. Gain proficiency in creating automated routines that control various devices, trigger specific actions, and customize your smart home experience. Learn how to effortlessly design complex sequences of commands by leveraging scripting capabilities within Home Assistant.
Discover the flexibility of scripting as we explore various scenarios, such as sending a fixed message to your phone, sending a custom message to your phone, and sending a custom weather condition to your phone. Dive into the world of conditions and variables to truly master the art of automation in Home Assistant. With optimization in mind, we cover best practices for organizing and managing scripts, ensuring efficient and reliable operation across your entire smart home ecosystem. Maximize convenience and streamline your daily routines with advanced scripting techniques and clever configurations. Join us on this enlightening journey of "Mastering Scripts in Home Assistant" as we equip you with all the necessary tools and knowledge to take your automation skills to new heights. Elevate your smart home experience and witness the immense potential that scripts unlock, making your life easier, more secure, and more enjoyable. Subscribe now and hit the notification bell to stay updated with the latest tutorials, tips, and tricks for Home Assistant. Enhance your home automation expertise today!

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:03 Use Case 1: Send a fixed message to your phone
00:03:39 Use Case 2: Send a custom message to your phone using fields in scripts
00:07:34 Use Case 3: Send a custom weather condition to your phone using response variables in scripts
00:12:51 Conclusion

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[PosiCat]

I was banging my head against scripts and return values, your video got my scripts working perfectly now thanks!

[simonknight]

Finally the difference between scripts and automations is clear to me. Thank you. Going to try these custom fields out. I’ve mainly been using scripts when I want them to automatically get discovered as scenes in Alexa.

[SmartHomeJunkie]

Be a Scripts pro in Home Assistant! Learn about using Fields and Response variables in Scripts in Home Assistant and let me know what advanced scripts you can think of!

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[videomichel]

Your content made me re-engage with my home automation after getting accustomed to so many glitches and nuisances and things that 'should work better but eh, it is good enough'. Sorting all of these out one by one not only made me enjoy all the smart things I have more, it also increased the wife acceptance factor by miles. Thank you so much for your work.

[jamesdavis-claydon]

Thank you for going slowly, if I watch this a few times, I should be able to understand enough to accomplish what I wanted to do, which is check my home temperature to see if is hot or cold. If it is hot which for me is above 25C, and I have been away and am now 15Km from home, send the RF code that turns my portable air conditioner on. If it's cold which for me is below -20C, set the thermostat to 23. I learn much better thru audio and video due to a brain injury.. Reading and typing takes a lot more effort

[BeardedTinker]

Great video as per usual!!! Keep them coming.

[esenterre]

You made simple explanations, easy to follow. Now it's time to see if I can make it work! Thanks!

[TheBroz]

Got my Home Assistant Green today and screwing about with notifications was one of the first things I did. Managed to setup a script to send a custom message to the phones and the living room TV. Early days but I’m already impressed with the power and flexibility of HA.

[alexkerin]

You really inspired me. I created a script that allows the automation creator to select which of the family phones the notification should go to, and whether it should be a critical notification. Much appreciated.

[thehostler]

The saddest part about this is going back into all of the automations and swapping out the phone notifications actions for the script. Thanks, this helped me understand scripts much better.

[christophhulsmann]

So I'm dizzy ;-), I translated first and will try the scripts and automations - Thanks!
Once again you helped me a lot to understand more!
"Get Notified And Respond Immediately Using Actionable Notifications in Home Assistant"
was also a very good tutorial, I continue with “Mastering Scipts in Home Assistant”...

greeting - Your work is simply great and important for understanding Home Assistant!

[PontusWelin]

Very helpful! I had an issue where this would have helped just this past week. I had notifications in my automations set to the wrong phone. Thanks!

[johnnynobels]

Thank you for this vety usefull tutorial. I didnt not know using parameters in scripts was that easy.

[GregGranito]

This is so great. As someone who just had to update many many automations when I got a new phone, the script template is fantastic.

One question: Any idea how we could add actionable notifications via the script with fields?

[Rob_]

I do have to play with this on my system. It's time to do more than just switching lights and other equipment on and off 😀

[tgfnl]

Briljante video weer, daar heb ik echt wat aan 🙂

[kindred]

This video helped me to look closer for typos in my script.
I was 100% sure I had written everything correctly but I got no variable sent to my phone. Only : The weather is and nothing.
Went back to the script an saw an typo

variables:
weatcher_condition:

Still did not get anything sent to my phone and then I saw the other typo

response_variable: weather_codition


Slow an steady I guess. Thank you for sharing examples.

[bertrandmauge]

Tks a lot for your help / tuto, you inspired me a lot. I'm a beginner and of course I'm stuck on the more advance user. I have try to adapted the script to the fire alarm: I've got a few of them (zwave and zigbee) and I would like to get the information on my phone of which one is active. And, of course, I will then use it for the leak sensor as well. Also, tks for the idea of the script for the phone: I'm getting more and more automatisations and you help me to realised how helpfull it would to change only one script for a new phone.

[robhoogland]

Great video. Good explanation. I will be going to use this for sure. Thanks, Ed.

[EsotericArctos]

A lot of stuff scripts do can also be done in scenes now. I am not really sure about needing both scripts and scenes in Home Assistant. They use to be quite different, but these days they are quite similar.
I use scripts a lot because this is how I use to do all my scenes, because the scenes feature use to be really rubbish back in 2018 when I first got serious with Home Assistant. Scripts are definitely handy, much better than having super complex automations with so much code beign repeated.
My first script was a "night mode" script, which triggered at bed time to lock doors and turn off lights.