Allows you to define the visibility of entities within an entity card.
I have a lot of automations and scripts.
But I don’t like to just program an automation. That’s easy to forget. I like to create panels to allow users to activate, deactivate or configure certain automations at their convenience.
In other words, my panels are not just for viewing, they are for interfering with the automations in the house.
I use the entity panel because, although it is not the prettiest, it is the most practical and makes the best use of space. However, it has a downside. I am a programmer and, when we create user interfaces, it is common to have fields or controls that only appear for filling in under certain conditions. In HA panels, this is not possible. We can create rules for visibility of an entire panel, but not of its fields, and this would be really useful.
I will give an example of how I had to deal with this limitation in a panel I created.
I use a Raspberry Pi with my HA and for months now the community has been struggling with a problem when using an SSD on the USB port: the entire system randomly crashes due to the occurrence of a “SQLAlchemyError” error (there are several forums with this discussion and it seems that it all started with Core 14).
To try to deal with this, I created a system restart routine. Initially, it restarted every day. It didn’t work. Then I created a programmable restart by day of the week and time. It works, but it didn’t work. Lastly, I created an automation that restarts the system as soon as an occurrence of “SQLAlchemyError” appears. This worked (it doesn’t solve the problem but it doesn’t mean I don’t have downtime).
I encapsulated everything in three panels:
- The first enables the system restart.
- The second is only visible when the first is enabled and allows you to activate the restart when the “SQLAlchemyError” occurs or the scheduled restart. - The third panel only appears when I enable scheduled restart in the second panel.
It would be more functional, flexible and elegant if I could enable this on a per-entity basis, which would make the panels much more powerful!
I hope you appreciate the request and consider it a useful addition to the system.
Ex. 1 (When disabled, this panel is only visible.):
Ex. 2 (When the entity in the first panel is enabled, the second panel appears with more options):
Ex. 3 (When the “scheduled restart” option is enabled in the second panel, the third panel appears to enable the days of the week when the system will be restarted, the time and to which smartphone a notification will be sent. It also has the type of restart - whether only HA or the entire system):
