0.107: Multiple Lovelace Dashboards, adds helpers, new media player card

[SeanM]

@macfox

Not to distract from the improvement to add input entities via the GUI, but who comes up with the naming for new features?

Helpers is not very intuitive name for the already established Input entities. Maybe it’s a translation thing, but Helpers is vague and generic. Just call them what they are Input (controls).

“Input UI” was one of the original names discussed. But the plan is to add more things to that section over time. Ability to add template sensors via the UI is something being looked into for example.

So “Helpers” was decided as a better catch-all (or generic as you put it) name that is also simpler to understand for most. It will cover anything that helps you build automations, not just input controls.

@Viking

I was enthusiastically planning to get som “help”, but when I clicked the big red + , the “Add Helper” menu only offered “Text” (!) All the other options were greyed out (?) Why?

Make sure that you have either default_config: or the other input domains in your configuration.yaml file.

input_boolean:
input_datetime:
input_number:
input_select:
input_text:

If you already have those and it’s still not working, please open an issue on the frontend repo: Sign in to GitHub · GitHub

[Viking]

Thank you. Adding default_config: to configuration.yaml solved it.
But I wonder why this wasn’t in there already? (I cannot recall ever having removed it)

[SeanM]

Glad that worked for you. default_config: is a relatively new thing, it was added about a year ago. If you installed Home Assistant before then you wouldn’t have it in your configuration.yaml file.

[namadori]

@SeanM

Make sure that you have either default_config: or the other input domains in your configuration.yaml file.

input_boolean: input_datetime: input_number: input_select: input_text:

the need for the input domains should be in an error message in the helpers page, I was struggling for 30 minutes before finding this message.

[radinsky]

have you fixed the divider?

[samnewman86]

How do you set initial values for input selects using the helpers gui?