Help with Entity ID Template in Automation Action to Change Only Lights That Are On

@NYC wrote:

I’m working on an automation that will change the brightness and temperature of lights during the day. I looked at other pre-built options (e.g., Flux and Circadian), but I wanted to see if I could build my own. When the Deconz daylight changes (slightly modified by the time), I want lights to change temp and brightness, but only if they’re already on. There are a few conditions, but the most relevant one for this automation is that a light must be on. I control my lights using Hue groups to smooth out lights coming on together, so I want to filter out the individual bulbs.

The problem is in the data template for entity ID in the action section. I have two selectattr() filters that should filter lights that are both on and Hue groups. When I include only one of these, it passes. But when I have both, it fails. I’ve been banging my head against the wall on this for 24 hours. After digging through posts from @petro and @pnbruckner, and reading the Jinja documentation on filters, I don’t see a reason why this fails.

What’s annoying is that when I test the template in dev tools, it produces the correct list of entity ids.

Here’s the code that’s causing an error:

- alias: 'Lights - Adjust if On'
  description: 'If lights are on, adjust the brightness based on time'
  hide_entity: true
  trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: state_changed
      entity_id: sensor.daylight
  condition:
    condition: and
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: 'group.people'
        state: 'on'
      - condition: state
        entity_id: 'input_boolean.good_night'
        state: 'off'
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{is_state('group.all_lights','on')}}"
  action:
    - service: light.turn_on
      data_template:
        entity_id: >
          {{ states.light
            | selectattr('attributes.is_hue_group')
            | selectattr('state','eq','on')
            | map(attribute='entity_id')
            | join(',')
            }}
        brightness: >
          {% set time=(states('sensor.time').split(':')[0] |int * 60) + (states('sensor.time').split(':')[1] |int) %}
          {%- if is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_end') -%}
            30
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'nautical_dawn') -%}
            30
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'dawn') -%}
            143
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'sunrise_start') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'sunrise_end') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'golden_hour_1') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'solar_noon') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'golden_hour_2') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'sunset_start') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'sunset_end') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'dusk') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'nautical_dusk') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 0 and time < 480 -%}
            143
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 480 and time < 600 -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 600 and time < 1110 -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 1110 and time < 1350 -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 1350 and time < 1440 -%}
            143
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') -%}
            254
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'nadir') -%}
            143
          {%- else -%}
            254
          {%- endif -%}
        color_temp: >
          {% set time=(states('sensor.time').split(':')[0] |int * 60) + (states('sensor.time').split(':')[1] |int) %}
          {%- if is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_end') -%}
            500
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'nautical_dawn') -%}
            500
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'dawn') -%}
            466
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'sunrise_start') -%}
            154
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'sunrise_end') -%}
            154
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'golden_hour_1') -%}
            154
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'solar_noon') -%}
            181
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'golden_hour_2') -%}
            181
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'sunset_start') -%}
            370
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'sunset_end') -%}
            370
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'dusk') -%}
            370
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'nautical_dusk') -%}
            370
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 0 and time < 480 -%}
            500
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 480 and time < 600 -%}
            154
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 600 and time < 1110 -%}
            181
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 1110 and time < 1350 -%}
            370
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'night_start') and time >= 1350 and time < 1440 -%}
            466
          {%- elif is_state('sensor.daylight', 'nadir') -%}
            466
          {%- else -%}
            370
          {%- endif -%}

Here’s the error:
Invalid config for [automation]: [entity_id] is an invalid option for [automation]. Check: automation->trigger->0->entity_id.

Any ideas?

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