šŸ”¹ Auto-entities - Automatically fill cards with entities

Right after posting this question I found a way to do this: :grin: :grin:

  - type: custom:auto-entities
    card:
      type: entities
      title: yesyes
    filter:
      include:
        - entity_id: sensor.energy_.*_daily
          options:
            type: custom:template-entity-row
            state: >-
              {{ states('this.entity_id') | round(1) }} kWh

Result:
image

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Where am I going wrong? The button press proceeds without the confirmation.

        - type: custom:auto-entities
          card:
            type: entities
            title: Battery Maintenance
          filter:
            include:
              - entity_id: "button.*_battery_replaced"
                options:
                  tap_action:
                    action: call-service
                    confirmation:
                      text: "Are you sure?"
                    service: button.press
                    target:
                      entity_id: this.entity_id
          sort:
            method: last_changed
            reverse: true

did you test the action on an individual (test) button?

Interesting ideaā€¦ I didnā€™t, so I tried it now, but I did realise something.

I found that it works if I click on the name, but not on the button (both when using auto-entities and an entities card directly).

Is my expectation wrong here that it should work for the button?

need to check that, but yes, I do seem to remember unexpected difference in operating the name and the button. let me check what I have on that.

can at least confirm what you report:

clicking either icon or name popup the confirmation, clicking the ā€˜Klikā€™ button immediately performs the action. (or, does Not pop up the confirmation ā€¦ didnt check whether the identify was successfully performed)

Suppose that would at least be unexpected and warrant a Frontend Issue/Discussion

found thisā€¦ No confirmation with toggle switch on Entities card Ā· Issue #19509 Ā· home-assistant/frontend Ā· GitHub, and seems to be per design.

I believen your solution here can be this:

  - entity: button.lightbulb_identify
    type: button #<--- this makes it respond to the Button, and to the button only
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: button.press
      confirmation:
        text: "Are you sure?"

btw, what card is that (given the 3 bullets at the bottom)? Is it swipe card?

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Thanks for confirming, Marius, and for your research.

Iā€™ll try your suggestion. The other option I thought of since was to make it a simple entity, but as pointed out in the GitHub discussion, thatā€™s a bit awkward. I think your suggestion will work better. Iā€™ll try it later.

EDIT: @Mariusthvdb Iā€™m happy with your suggestion. It works just fine in this case. Thanks again.

As for the bullets: Yes, itā€™s an auto-entities card is within a custom swipe card.

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Iā€™ve implemented the following listing of all my groups:

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  title: All groups
  show_header_toggle: false
  state_color: true
  theme: Mushroom Shadow
filter:
  include:
    - domain: group
      options:
        type: custom:fold-entity-row
        group_config:
          secondary_info: last-changed
          state_color: true
sort:
  method: friendly_name

But how to list all labels and their assigned entities?
The same question for areas and floors.

Not sure I entirely understand what you mean - but there is a filter criteria for labels.

e.g. (not tested)

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  title: All labels
  show_header_toggle: false
  state_color: true
  theme: Mushroom Shadow
filter:
  include:
    - label: MYLABEL
      options:
        type: custom:fold-entity-row
        group_config:
          secondary_info: last-changed
          state_color: true
sort:
  method: friendly_name

Hi all,
I am hitting a wall and hope you can help me out!
My goal is to automatically create a specific cover card for each cover entity in my home.

This is what my manual cover card looks like:

My manual cover card
type: custom:stack-in-card
cards:
  - type: custom:mushroom-cover-card
    entity: myentity
    fill_container: false
    name: Jalousien
    show_position_control: true
    show_buttons_control: true
    show_tilt_position_control: false
  - type: custom:mushroom-chips-card
    chips:
      - type: entity
        entity: script.cover_tilt_up
        icon: mdi:window-shutter-open
        content_info: name
        tap_action:
          action: call-service
          service: script.cover_tilt_up
          data:
            entity_id: myentity
          target: {}
      - type: entity
        entity: script.cover_tilt_down
        icon: mdi:window-shutter-open
        content_info: name
        tap_action:
          action: call-service
          service: script.cover_tilt_down
          data:
            entity_id: myentity
          target: {}
    alignment: center
    card_mod:
      style: |
        ha-card {
          margin: 5px 0 10px 0;
          }
        ha-card .chip-container :not(:last-child) {
          margin-right: 20px;
          }

Unfortunately, I canā€™t seem to get this to work with auto entities. That said - I am far from knowing what Iā€™m doing :wink:

This is my current (NOT working) code. Can you help me get this to work?

type: custom:auto-entities
filter:
  include:
    - domain: cover
      options: null
  exclude:
    - state: unavailable
    - label: exclude-frontend
card:
  type: custom:layout-card
  layout_type: custom:grid-layout
  layout:
    margin: var(--layout-card-grid-margin-correction)
    grid-template-columns: >-
      repeat(auto-fill, minmax(min(var(--light-cards-min-width), 100%),
      1fr))
  cards:
    - type: custom:mushroom-cover-card
      entity: []
      fill_container: false
      name: Jalousien
      show_position_control: true
      show_buttons_control: true
      show_tilt_position_control: false
    - type: custom:mushroom-chips-card
      chips:
        - type: entity
          entity: script.cover_tilt_up
          icon: mdi:window-shutter-open
          content_info: name
          tap_action:
            action: call-service
            service: script.cover_tilt_up
            data:
              entity_id: []
            target: {}
        - type: entity
          entity: script.cover_tilt_down
          icon: mdi:window-shutter-open
          content_info: name
          tap_action:
            action: call-service
            service: script.cover_tilt_down
            data:
              entity_id: []
            target: {}
      alignment: center
      card_mod:
        style: |
          ha-card {
            margin: 5px 0 10px 0;
            }
          ha-card .chip-container :not(:last-child) {
            margin-right: 20px;
            }
show_empty: false
sort:
  method: friendly_name
card_param: entity

At the moment, all it does is this:
image

but it should be displaying 3 cover cards, which works fine if I just use the mushroom cover card on itā€™s own.

Pieter, as it was already mentioned by Marius, tap_action does not work for buttons & checkboxes. It was probably assumed that tapping a checkbox is always ā€œtogglingā€, double-tapping is meaningless; same for a button. But inability to re-define an action causes an inability to add confirmation, side effectā€¦

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You seem to want to display a LABEL inside a fold-entity-rowā€™s ā€œheadā€ + all entities assoc. with this label.
First, a fold-entity-rowā€™s ā€œheadā€ must be either a ā€œsectionā€ row or a ā€œcustom:template-entity-rowā€ - in both cases a row may have a ā€œtitleā€ which may be placeholder for a labelā€™s name.
Second, since you want to list all possible labels (i.e. w/o defining labelsā€™ names explicitly) - you have to use a ā€œtemplateā€ option inside ā€œauto-entitiesā€ which enumerates all labels, then for some particular label constructs a fold-entity-row with a ā€œheadā€=labelā€™s name and ā€œentitiesā€=assoc. entities.

Same way for flloors & areas.

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That was explained really well. Kudos.

fwiw, I did bring up the issue with one of the main Frontend contributors, to have the option stand alone, and not inside the action config.
No promises were made, but I got an ā€œInteresting, let me play around with that a bitā€ response :wink:

so hope still lives

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does anybody have an idea how I can get this to work?

dont really get why you would do anything like that with auto-entities, and only 3 covers? seems more trouble than worth it.

if you want to de-duplicate identical repetitive yaml, just use an anchor?

ā€¦ or a decluttering card (if possible)

3 shutters are just the ones I have connected at the moment while setting this up - there are more to come and when at a later point I add a couple blinds, Iā€™d like to have them added automatically.

any ideas? :slight_smile:

as always, first make it a bare simple card, without any of the stylings, so you are sure auto-entities does what you want.

then rebuild those stylings.

also,

card_param: entity

is default, so can be left out? and other options that can be taken out, like show_empty etc

you have so much empty yaml there,

            data:
              entity_id: []
            target: {}

please get rid of that before being able to analyse the card

thanks for the pointers, very much appreciated!

I went back to this basic setup for the options, which works perfectly:

options:

type: custom:mushroom-cover-card
fill_container: false
show_position_control: true
show_buttons_control: true
show_tilt_position_control: false

After I added the grid and the mushroom-chips-cards back in with the following code (I think the layout-grid or similar is needed in order to use multiple cards in the options, right?), then things start to break again:

options:

type: custom:layout-card
layout_type: custom:grid-layout
cards:
  - type: custom:mushroom-cover-card
    fill_container: false
    show_position_control: true
    show_buttons_control: true
    show_tilt_position_control: false
  - type: custom:mushroom-chips-card
    chips:
      - type: entity
        entity: script.cover_tilt_up
        icon: mdi:window-shutter-open
        content_info: name
        tap_action:
          action: call-service
          service: script.cover_tilt_up

the cover card disappears completely and only the chips-card is shown:
image

if I understand you correctly, the auto-entities card is not yet involved, and already this breaks?

if yes, then that needs tomb fixed, before even thinking of adding this for all of your cover entities in an auto-entities card.

and about that: are those scripts all functional for all of the cover entities (which are injected by auto-entities into the card config)?