Adding a Home Assistant entity via python

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Hello. I’m trying to add a custom switch via the python code (not the configuration file). I currently have the following code:

attributes = {"platform" : "mqtt",  "assumed_state" : True , "name" : "Bedroom Switch", "state_topic" :  "home/bedroom/switch1", "command_topic" : "home/bedroom/switch1/set", "payload_on:" : "ON", "payload_off" : "OFF", "optimistic" : False, "qos" : 0, "retain" : True, "value_template" : "{{ value.x }}"}
hass.states.set("switch.coded_switch",  "off", attributes)

This works completely, but in the Home Assistant UI the “Coded Switch” does not turn up as a switch. It has all the attributes, but it shows up just in state “Off”, where I wanted it to be a switch that’s off.

Thanks in advance for helping!

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hass.states.set sets only the state of an entity. To create switches you need to inherit from SwitchDevice.

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Hello. Thanks for your reaction!

Could you give me any pointers on how to do that in python code? Thanks in advance.

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