MQTT Topic from input select

@cabalforces wrote:

Hi! I am trying to control IOT Link on my pc through mqtt with input selects. There are multiple serious issues with this, namely that I am terrible at programming, not familiar with the syntax of jinja or yaml just impatient in general for any kind of debugging. I have tried to basically copy-paste code i have found on the site but of course it does not work.
This is what it looks like:

- id: computer_state
  alias: Power
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_select.pc_power
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data_template:
      entity_id: input_select.pc_power
      option: >-
        {% set mydict = { 
          'logoff': 'Log Out'
          'lock': 'Lock',
          'reboot': 'Reset', } %}
        {{ mydict.get(action.topic) }}
      topic: "iotlink/workgroup/odin/commands/{{action.topic}}"
      payload: ''

And this is the error it throws:

Invalid config for [automation]: invalid template (TemplateSyntaxError: expected token ‘,’, got ‘:’) for dictionary value @ data[‘action’][0][‘data_template’][‘option’]. Got None. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 48).
Invalid config for [automation]: Entity ID input_select. is an invalid entity id for dictionary value @ data[‘trigger’][0][‘entity_id’]. Got None
expected str for dictionary value @ data[‘id’]. Got None
string value is None for dictionary value @ data[‘alias’]. Got None. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 48).

Line 48 is an enter, with nothing else, line 49 is:

automation: !include automations.yaml

Very helpful.

Thank you in advance for your help

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