Template Light

The template platform creates lights that combine components and provides the ability to run scripts or invoke services for each of the on, off, and brightness commands of a light.

To enable Template Lights in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
light:
  - platform: template
    lights:
      theater_lights:
        friendly_name: "Theater Lights"
        level_template: "{{ sensor.theater_brightness.attributes.lux|int }}"
        value_template: "{{ sensor.theater_brightness.attributes.lux|int > 0 }}"
        turn_on:
          service: script.theater_lights_on
        turn_off:
          service: script.theater_lights_off
        set_level:
          service: script.theater_lights_level
          data_template:
            brightness: "{{ brightness }}"

Configuration Variables

switches

(map)(Required)List of your lights.

friendly_name

(string)(Optional)Name to use in the frontend.

entity_id

(string | list)(Optional)Add a list of entity IDs so the switch only reacts to state changes of these entities. This will reduce the number of times the light will try to update its state.

value_template

(template)(Optional)Defines a template to get the state of the light.

Default value: optimistic

level_template

(template)(Optional)Defines a template to get the brightness of the light.

Default value: optimistic

turn_on

(action)(Required)Defines an action to run when the light is turned on.

turn_off

(action)(Required)Defines an action to run when the light is turned off.

set_level

(action)(Optional)Defines an action to run when the light is given a brightness command.

Considerations

If you are using the state of a platform that takes extra time to load, the Template Light may get an unknown state during startup. This results in error messages in your log file until that platform has completed loading. If you use is_state() function in your template, you can avoid this situation. For example, you would replace {{ states.switch.source.state == 'on' }} with this equivalent that returns true/false and never gives an unknown result: {{ is_state('switch.source', 'on') }}

Examples

In this section you will find some real life examples of how to use this light.

Theater Volume Control

This example shows a light that is actually a home theater’s volume. This component gives you the flexibility to provide whatever you’d like to send as the payload to the consumer including any scale conversions you may need to make; the Media Player component needs a floating point percentage value from 0.0 to 1.0.

light:
  - platform: template
    lights:
      theater_volume:
        friendly_name: "Receiver Volume"
        value_template: >-
          {% if is_state('media_player.receiver', 'on') %}
            {% if states.media_player.receiver.attributes.is_volume_muted %}
              off
            {% else %}
              on
            {% endif %}
          {% else %}
            off
          {% endif %}
        turn_on:
          service: media_player.volume_mute
          data:
            entity_id: media_player.receiver
            is_volume_muted: false
        turn_off:
          service: media_player.volume_mute
          data:
            entity_id: media_player.receiver
            is_volume_muted: true
        set_level:
          service: media_player.volume_set
          data_template:
            entity_id: media_player.receiver
            volume_level: "{{ (brightness / 255 * 100)|int / 100 }}"
        level_template: >-
          {% if is_state('media_player.receiver', 'on') %}
            {{ (states.media_player.receiver.attributes.volume_level|float * 255)|int }}
          {% else %}
            0
          {% endif %}