camera.record will not support multiple entities anymore when entity_id should be part of the filename template

[NODeeJay]

The problem

With the the change #128592 discussed in #40241 the option to use the variable entity_id in a filename template when multiple entities are provided will not work anymore, however it was mentioned several times in the thread by multiple users.

this:

action: camera.record
  target:
    entitiy_id:
      - camera.cam1
      - camera.cam2
      - camera.cam3
  data:
    filename: {{ entity_id }}.mp4

will not work anymore and I did not find a way to pass an array to the variable one should define as suggested in the docs.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2024.11

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

2024.10

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Camera

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/camera/#action-record

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

A repair message is shown:

The pre-defined template variable entity_id was used when performing action camera.record targeting camera entity camera.cam_driveway_low_latency. The pre-defined template variable entity_id is being removed from the filename parameter of camera.record.

Please update your automations and scripts to use a manually defined variable instead and select Submit to close this issue.

Additional information

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[billsq]

try write your action like this, using repeat:

repeat:
  sequence:
    - action: camera.record
      target:
        entity_id:
          - "{{ repeat.item.cam }}"
      data:
        filename: /tmp/{{ repeat.item.cam }}.mp4
  for_each:
    - cam: camera.cam1
    - cam: camera.cam2
    - cam: camera.cam3

[illuzn]

@billsq Unfortunately that solution doesn't work... it triggers a sequential record i.e. it records cam1 for 30s (default) then cam2 for 30s then cam3. Obviously the use case generally, is that an important event has occurred e.g. alarm triggered and you want to record all cameras at the same time.

I've provided a workaround in the other thread regarding this from 2020.