Assigning numeric value that was set a loop

@ibennani wrote:

My mission: To assign a numeric value in the last row of the script.

My problem: `value: “{{ counter }}” in the code below does not get an numeric value from counter.

  - alias: "Count people at home"
    initial_state: true
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id:
        - device_tracker.galaxynote8
        - device_tracker.galaxynote8_2
    action:
      - service_template: >-
          {%- set counter = 0 %} 
          {%- for device in states.device_tracker %}
            {%- if device.state == "home" and
              (device.entity_id == "device_tracker.galaxynote8_2" or
              device.entity_id == "device_tracker.galaxynote8"  )  %}
              {%- set counter = counter + 1 %}  
            {%- endif %}
          {%- endfor %}      
            variable.set_variable
        data: 
          variable: count_pepole_home
          value: "{{ counter }}"

The code above is ment to count people at home and store the amount of people in a variable using the custom component Variable. That custom component works fine, så that’s not an issue here.

When this automation has ran and when i check variable.count_pepole_home in the entities list, it’s state is not the expected numeric value, it’s the string “{{ counter }}” , but of course without quotes.

If both of us are at home, I’d like the value at the end of the script to be set to 2.

I guess the solution is quite simple when you know where to look.
Any piece of advice or other kind of assistans would be very appreciated.

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