Input send action states

components.child-component.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  actions: {
    setAutoRefresh() {
      console.log(this.get('autoRefresh'));
      if (this.get('autoRefresh') === true) {
        Ember.run.later(function() {
          console.log('refreshed');
          this.sendAction('setAutoRefresh');
        }, 1000);
      }
    }
  }
});

components.parent-component.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  init() {
    this._super(...arguments);
    this.set('autoRefresh', false);
  }
});

controllers.application.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
  appName: 'Set parent component state'
});

templates.application.hbs

<h1>{{appName}}</h1>
<br>
<br>
{{#parent-component}}
	{{child-component autoRefresh=autoRefresh}}
{{/parent-component}}
<br>
<br>

templates.components.child-component.hbs

{{input type='checkbox' checked=autoRefresh click=(action 'setAutoRefresh')}} Send data and set state

templates.components.parent-component.hbs

{{yield}}

twiddle.json

{
  "version": "0.11.0",
  "EmberENV": {
    "FEATURES": {}
  },
  "options": {
    "use_pods": false,
    "enable-testing": false
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.js",
    "ember": "2.10.2",
    "ember-data": "2.11.0",
    "ember-template-compiler": "2.10.2",
    "ember-testing": "2.10.2"
  },
  "addons": {}
}