How to check for a condition in a triggered function?

[wsw70]

I have a function that is called from triggers in several places:

def volets_time(when="", entity_id=None, howMuch=None, condition="on"):
    log.info(f"setting up volets for {entity_id} at {when} → {howMuch}")

    @time_trigger(f"once({when})")
    def volets():
        if condition == "on":
            cover.set_cover_position(entity_id=entity_id, position=howMuch)
            log.info(f"volets {entity_id} → {howMuch}")
        else:
            log.info(
                f"volets {entity_id} should go {howMuch}, but automation is switched off"
            )

    return volets

It does not really matter what it does, the key point is the condition if condition == "on":. My intent was to have binary switches that allow the automation or not.

The problem of course is that I would need to pass the binary switch to th function, and not only its current state, as I do it incorrectly now:

triggers = [
    volets.volets_time(
        entity_id="cover.martin_volets",
        howMuch="100",
        when="11:00",
        condition=input_boolean.martin_volets_matin,
    ),
    volets.volets_time(
        entity_id="cover.martin_volets",
        howMuch="0",
        when="sunset+1h",
        condition=input_boolean.martin_volets_soir,
    ),
]

What would be the correct way to pass (for instance) input_boolean.martin_volets_matin so that its current state is checked when the function fires up (at a given time)?

[craigbarratt]

It seems you need to defer the fetching of the state variable value from trigger creation to trigger running. The easiest way would be to make condition a string (eg, "input_boolean.martin_volets_soir"), and use state.get() inside the inner trigger function to get its current value (ie, replacecondition with state.get(condition)).