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You’ve got a sweet automation but you need to grab some data from whatever triggered it. Luckily Home Assistant has the ability to use Jinja in automation via templates so you can get your information to another service. In my example, I’m using an automation where someone has arrived home so I use the TTS engine to welcome them home based on the name of the person who came home.<\/p>\n
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