Ability to call a scene with parameters

Feature requests
1

I propose to enhance the Start Scene action by allowing parameters to be passed to it.

I present a use case:

  • In many of my scenes, I systematically do two things: send an audio message to my connected speaker and send the same message as text via Telegram to my phone. Thus, if I am at home I hear the information and if I am outside I receive the information.
  • When building the scene, this forces me to add a Send Message action and define the message, and add a Speak on a Speaker action by defining the same message. And since I often build the message with a variable, it really needs to be entered manually because copying/pasting with variables is not possible.
  • It would be much more practical to have a Broadcast Info scene that accepts a text parameter, and that this scene performs both actions. And then from any scene I could achieve both effects in a single action: calling the scene with the text as a parameter.

I therefore propose the following improvement:

  • In the Configuration section of a scene, or in a new section between Configuration and Triggers, have the ability to define one or more parameters by giving them a name (and possibly a type).
  • In the scene, be able to use these parameters as variables {{ param1. Parameter Name }}, {{ param2. Parameter Name }}.
  • In the Start Scene action, if it is a scene with parameters, be able to define the parameter(s) in fields.
2

This is a duplicate of this request :slight_smile:

But I’m 100% okay with this request!

3

Oh yes, indeed, it’s the same. @pierre-gilles I’ll leave it to you to decide which one to keep…

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Thanks @StephaneB for the request, very clear with the use case, and thanks @spenceur for spotting it!

I’ll leave it to you: @StephaneB you’re a moderator, you can merge this topic into the older one (the 2022 one keeps the history, and we don’t lose your detailed content in the process).

More broadly, don’t hesitate to manage duplicates among yourselves without waiting for me, it allows me to focus fully on development and it’s a real help :slight_smile:

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I hadn’t thought to do that in the 3-4 I’d seen as duplicates, I closed the old one and the new one (or vice versa, I don’t even remember, and that was 2 days ago :sweat_smile:).
I’ll fix all that to keep the histories.