🔹 Auto-entities - Automatically fill cards with entities

boheme61 · February 21, 2024, 9:56pm

first: you have a wrong indent: (look at action:)
secondly: seems like you as above poster neither read the github-documentation
third: you don’t have any include, your mushroom wont be applied, beside your card-mod does nothing.
fourth: Use The Power of Auto-entities ( that’s what it’s build for )

  include:
    - entity_id: '*'
      state: 'unavailable'

javalsu · February 24, 2024, 9:06pm

Hopefully somebody can help me out here because I’m beating my head against a wall.

I want to have a hold action on my scenes to add/remove them from a favorites list.
I can easily add the hold_action option when I use the “include” filter. But for the life of me I can’t figure out how to do this for a template.

Here is my card yaml:

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  title: Favorite Scenes
filter:
  template: >
    {% set scene_options = state_attr('input_select.favorite_scenes', 'options') %} 
    {% for option in scene_options %}
      scene.{{ option | replace(' ', '_') | lower }}
    {% endfor %}

Is there a way I can add a hold action to this template?

Thanks!

KingFisher · February 26, 2024, 7:52pm

thanks for taking the time to reply - much appreciated

first: you have a wrong indent: (look at action:) - thanks again, had not picked that up

secondly: seems like you as above poster neither read the github-documentation - if you’re referring to the auto-entities github, then yes I have read it, but do not claim to understand all of it - is there a particular section that you’re referring to?

third: you don’t have any include, your mushroom wont be applied, beside your card-mod does nothing - correct it does not have an include - I’m trying to build the code based on this example, which does work, and also does not have an include

fourth: Use The Power of Auto-entities ( that’s what it’s build for ) - as above I have the “includes & excludes” in a template sensor - just trying to streamline the yaml

boheme61 · February 26, 2024, 8:59pm

Ok, however your code, doesn’t looks anywhere near/like the code-example you refers to. ( i.e no mushroom-card(s), however a "base-card / type: custom:fold-entity-row "
It also don’t have an “option” tag

And i believe there are simple example codes, in the cards-github-page, which people can start with, to get an understanding of how the card works.
Beside if you look at my answer to you, and above poster, you got all “ingredients” to accomplice, what your are asking for.

Yes i’ve seen other examples where people using template-sensors ( free choice ) and not needed for i.e a simple solution, as you are asking for

Top to Bottom , don’t scroll to fast through the examples, they tell/show in pictures whats stated in the text

PS: try to “tab” in your Options-section

knwpsk1 · February 28, 2024, 9:15pm

Hi Thomas,
I have a card set up with show_empty:false, but it still shows up when there are no results.
The card is meant to show up when there are HACS updates due, but go away when there are none.
I have a template entity defined for this:

hacs_integrations_updates_due:
  value_template: "{% if states.sensor.hacs.attributes.repositories %} {{ states.sensor.hacs.attributes.repositories | map(attribute='name') | join('\n')  }} {% else %}{% endif %}"

And here’s my auto-entities card config:

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  title: auto_entities
show_empty: false
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: sensor.hacs_integrations_updates_due

What have I missed? Do I need to put something like “NULL” in between the Else and Endif in my template?

Thanks!

halsfeger · March 1, 2024, 9:48pm

Hello everyone

I’m trying to put together a small gaming dashboard with Steam shortcuts. This works quite well with auto entities mushroom and card mod. But what I can’t quite manage are the automatic background images for the mushroom cards. if I set them statically, it works, but not dynamically.

With the mushroom image it works with the variable, but not with the background:

type: custom:auto-entities
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: '*game_*'
      device: TEST
      name: '*Favorites*'
      options:
        type: custom:mushroom-template-card
        primary: ''
        secondary: ''
        picture: >-
          https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/{% set str =
          state_attr(entity, 'friendly_name') %}{% set sub = str.split('_')[2]
          %}{{sub}}/header.jpg
        tap_action:
          action: toggle
        layout: vertical
        card_mod:
          style: |
            ha-card {     
             
                background-image: url('https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/{% set str = state_attr(entity, 'friendly_name') %}{% set sub = str.split('_')[2]%}{{sub}}/header.jpg')!important;
               
                }
sort:
  method: friendly_name
card:
  square: false
  type: grid
  columns: 7
  title: Favorites
card_param: cards
show_empty: true
view_layout:
  position: main

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How could I solve this?

MisterXY · March 3, 2024, 10:25pm

Hello Community!

I’m quite new on Home Assistent so apologies for my noob question!

I’m trying to combine 2 cards / features and stuck on the fact, if its possible to use the result (entities) from the Auto-entities in a new card?

Example:

type: custom:auto-entities
filter:
  include:
    - name: '*Rollladen*'
      options: {}
  exclude:
    - entity_id: /sensor*
    - entity_id: /button*
    - name: Alle Rollläden
      options: {}
show_empty: false
sort:
  reverse: false
  ignore_case: false
  ip: false
card:
  type: horizontal-stack
  cards:
    - type: custom:shutter-card
    - type: custom:shutter-card

Result:

The horizontal-stack is mandatory, otherwise the shutter will be shown vertically.

I’m wondering if its possible to use this in any way / respectively to use the auto-entities to hand over the result to the shutter-card in a horizontal-stack type?

Source:https://github.com/Deejayfool/hass-shutter-card and https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/horizontal-stack/

Any ideas are welcome! Thank you in advance!

boheme61 · March 3, 2024, 10:39pm

try to use below:

          - type: custom:auto-entities
            card:
              square: false
              columns: 2
              type: grid
            card_param: cards
            filter:
              include:
                 - name: '*Rollladen*'
                   options:
                     type: custom:shutter-card
                     icon_color: '#87bf50'
                     etc.
                     etc.
                     etc. = configs your shutter-card support

MisterXY · March 3, 2024, 11:11pm

Thank you for the fast reply!
Unfortunately I get No type provided - config below:

- type: custom:auto-entities
  card:
    square: false
    columns: 2
    type: grid
  card_param: cards
  filter:
    include:
      - name: '*Rollladen*'
        options:
          type: custom:shutter-card
          icon_color: '#87bf50'
          buttons_position: right
          title_position: top

Thanks again!!

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 3, 2024, 11:15pm

What you posted is a code w/o indentation.

MisterXY · March 3, 2024, 11:19pm

My bad - Thanks!
Updated - still the same message No type provided

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 3, 2024, 11:29pm

I guess you are pasting this code into UI yaml editor.

- type: custom:auto-entities
  card:

should be just

type: custom:auto-entities
card:

boheme61 · March 3, 2024, 11:48pm

uppps, my bad, i copied it from a horizontal-stack( or something) even more complex … didn’t think about that

boheme61 · March 3, 2024, 11:59pm

Look at your own card !, as you are using auto-entities as the first Card, the code should look like your "Every Thing has to be moved in(to the left)

MisterXY · March 4, 2024, 12:02am

Thank you both!
I adapt it - no errors - but also no content

Again, sorry for my lack of knowledge!

boheme61 · March 4, 2024, 12:07am

because you removed the - under include ( and i dont even know whether your ‘rolladen’ works as i don’t have such )

PS: Knowledge you get by compare and read the Docs of the specific Cards/Integrations

Card_params
options

Hardly anything right, so obviously your first code you posted, is copied somewhere from, and you don’t understand it, and you haven’t looked at the examples in the Docs, so you wont understand my code either

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 4, 2024, 12:21am

If this is your 1st experience with auto-entities - I would suggest you to test with a standard card first, not with a custom:shutter-card.

boheme61 · March 4, 2024, 12:32am

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  square: false
  columns: 2
  type: grid
card_param: cards
filter:
  include:
    - name: '*temp*'
      options:
        type: entity

This you can c/p, and build from there

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 4, 2024, 12:54am

Or this example:

and since I got only one entity named “Sun” - the grid only contains 1 card.
So:

Test ONLY shutter-card w/o auto-entities.
Test auto-entities with a standard card.
Test auto-entities with the shutter-card.

MisterXY · March 4, 2024, 5:26pm

I agree - I’ll consult the documentation more in detail and try to understand the correct syntax format.

For this special case I assume it is a limitation from shutter-card side. It seems that this card always need a direct entity. So, back to my first question, I see there s no possibility to hand the entity result(s) from the auto-entities to the shutter-card.
So for now it looks like there is now resolution.

I agree - I’ll consult the documentation more in detail and try to understand the correct syntax format.

For this special case I assume it is a limitation from shutter-card side. It seems that this card always need a direct entity. So, back to my first question, I see there s no possibility to hand the entity result(s) from the auto-entities to the shutter-card.
So for now it looks like there is now resolution.

My suspicions are confirmed with the final test (thank you for providing the example code!)

Comparison

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  square: false
  columns: 2
  type: grid
card_param: cards
filter:
  include:
    - name: '*te*'
      options:
        type: entity

works flawless =>

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  square: false
  columns: 2
  type: grid
card_param: cards
filter:
  include:
    - name: '*te*'
      options:
        type: custom:shutter-card

results in

Thanks again for your time!