🔹 Auto-entities - Automatically fill cards with entities

andrewjswan · July 31, 2024, 11:32am

I don’t have mod-card installed, only card-mod, I’ll try as Ildar suggested, if it doesn’t work, I’ll try your method. Thank you.

Mariusthvdb · July 31, 2024, 11:35am

you should really read up on things… mod-card is part of card-mod…

Robert_Shed · August 6, 2024, 12:18am

I’m trying to display my wled lights as it displays other lights/switches with the word LED. I need help to show only my wled lights.

type: custom:auto-entities
show_empty: false
card:
  type: glance
  title: Lights On Right Now
filter:
  include:
    - name: light.*_kingwled_*
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: more-info
        hold_action:
          action: toggle
    - domain: light
      state: 'on'
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: more-info
        hold_action:
          action: toggle
    - domain: switch
      state: 'on'
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: more-info
        hold_action:
          action: toggle
  exclude:
    - entity_id: '*tp_link*'
    - entity_id: '*washing*'
    - entity_id: '*deco*'
    - entity_id: '*led*'
    - entity_id: '*panel_sound*'
    - entity_id: '*google*'
    - entity_id: '*tv*'
    - entity_id: '*doorbell*'
    - entity_id: '*bluetooth*'
    - entity_id: '*remote*'
    - entity_id: '*report*'
    - entity_id: '*motion*'
    - entity_id: '*microphone*'
    - entity_id: '*garage_speaker*'
    - entity_id: '*firestick*'
    - entity_id: '*cloud*'
    - entity_id: '*program*'
    - entity_id: '*display*'
    - entity_id: '*schedule*'
visibility:
  - condition: user
    users:
      - cd026962296f457589569fc1e5d6706d
      - 206a02d709c74c11b47b2a5ba9f5372f

loocd · August 7, 2024, 5:15am

your question is a bit vague, it would help if you explain your goal/code a bit better. Here my attempt of helping:
you are currently filtering for all entities that have the name light.kingwled OR are lights that are on OR are switches that are on.

I don’t think name: light.kingwled works; you would need to use the entity_id filter
you don’t need the separate domain light filter. if you specify light.kingwled you already only get light entities
why do you include switches if you only want your wleds?

Would this code work for you?

type: custom:auto-entities
show_empty: false
card:
  type: glance
  title: Lights On Right Now
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: light.*_kingwled_*
      state: 'on'
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: more-info
        hold_action:
          action: toggle

If you need switches as well it could look like this:

type: custom:auto-entities
show_empty: false
card:
  type: glance
  title: Lights On Right Now
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: light.*_kingwled_*
      state: 'on'
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: more-info
        hold_action:
          action: toggle
    - entity_id: switch.*_kingwled_*
      state: 'on'
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: more-info
        hold_action:
          action: toggle

Hope this helps - if it’s not what you’re looking for, please try to be more specific

Mariusthvdb · August 7, 2024, 6:43am

don’t these Wled light all come from the same WLED integration? If the answer is yes, you can simply use the integration filter in the auto-entities config

filter:
  include:
    - integration: wled #be sure to look this up. I dont use that so cant promise this is correct

Robert_Shed · August 8, 2024, 4:01pm

i have inserted your suggestion and it did not update. still the same

type: custom:auto-entities
show_empty: false
card:
  type: glance
  title: Lights On Right Now
filter:
  include:
    - integration: WLED
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: more-info
        hold_action:
          action: toggle
    - domain: light
      state: 'on'
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: more-info
        hold_action:
          action: toggle
    - domain: switch
      state: 'on'
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: more-info
        hold_action:
          action: toggle
  exclude:
    - entity_id: '*tp_link*'
    - entity_id: '*washing*'
    - entity_id: '*deco*'
    - entity_id: '*led*'
    - entity_id: '*panel_sound*'
    - entity_id: '*google*'
    - entity_id: '*tv*'
    - entity_id: '*doorbell*'
    - entity_id: '*bluetooth*'
    - entity_id: '*remote*'
    - entity_id: '*report*'
    - entity_id: '*motion*'
    - entity_id: '*microphone*'
    - entity_id: '*garage_speaker*'
    - entity_id: '*firestick*'
    - entity_id: '*cloud*'
    - entity_id: '*program*'
    - entity_id: '*display*'
    - entity_id: '*schedule*'
    - entity_id: '*Chandler*'
visibility:
  - condition: user
    users:
      - cd026962296f457589569fc1e5d6706d
      - 206a02d709c74c11b47b2a5ba9f5372f

Mariusthvdb · August 8, 2024, 5:47pm

Make you card simpler.
First , test the integration filter and use lower characters

Robert_Shed · August 8, 2024, 6:00pm

thank you that worked. but it gave more info than i bargained for lol. I just wanted the lights only.

Mariusthvdb · August 8, 2024, 6:57pm

Great, so now add domain: light under the same dash (so don’t add a new dash)

thefunkygibbon · August 10, 2024, 3:53pm

So I’m really struggling to find a way to remove the toggle button for entities populated using auto-entities. I’ve tried using card-mod but getting nowhere fast. I just need some simple pointers please.
I’ve tried lots of permetations of the following which I want to list out all of my lights which have been switched off at the mains, but I don’t want to see the toggle as I want the card to be as small and simple as possible.

type: custom:auto-entities
show_empty: false
card:
  type: entities
  title: Unavailable entities
  show_header_toggle: false
  card_mod:
    style: |
      ha-switch {
        display: none;
        }
filter:
  include:
    - domain: light
      state: unavailable
```

Ildar_Gabdullin · August 10, 2024, 4:02pm

General schema:
card-mod thread → 1st post → link at the bottom → auto-entities
Particular styles - ask in that thread.

thefunkygibbon · August 10, 2024, 4:04pm

which link at the bottom , there are loads
if you mean - 🔹 Card-mod - Add css styles to any lovelace card - #1396 by Ildar_Gabdullin
and then click on the auto-entities
list of posts with styles then it just comes back to this thread. so i’m confused

Ildar_Gabdullin · August 10, 2024, 4:23pm

it comes to a particular post in this thread

TheRealFalseReality · August 13, 2024, 3:37pm

I think I have suffered performance issues, especially when I started to use template, rather than include and exclude, for better formatting. I am currently trying to debug. But in general, I find that when using auto-entities, it takes more time to populate than if not. Now, I love auto-entitles, saves a LOT of time, but I do not want performance hits. Hardware is a RPI5.

I noticed issues when using template for auto-entities while setting up Frigate sensors. So trying to narrow it down.

Perhaps templating takes more time/resources than just using include and exclude? I didn’t really notice any performance issues until I started using templates in the code.

Anyone else who uses auto-entitles A LOT have any performance issues, or am I doing something wrong.

loocd · August 13, 2024, 3:45pm

Hi all, looking for some help in filtering after I couldn’t find anything online.

what I have:
I currently have an auto-entities card set-up to give me all lights except light groups.

what I’m trying to achieve:
However, l would like to display single lights differently than lights that are part of a group.
Single lights I just want to display as is, but for grouped lights I want to display the actual group and then have the option to expand the members of the group using collapsable cards.

my issue:
I just cannot figure out how to set up the filters for this.
What I would need:

include all entities that are:

domain: light

exclude all entities that are:

a group (checking the entity_id attribute)
part of a group → how??

any idea how this can be achieved? Unfortunately I don’t even have an approach to show for this, as I can’t figure out where to start (there’s no attribute for this as far as I know).

edit: fixed a mistake in my exclude; I need to include entites that are part of a group, not the ones that are not part of a group

Mariusthvdb · August 14, 2024, 8:41am

add a label to those groups (light group or whatever) and exclude/include those label entities or the reverse, just as you would need it.

then, use 2 different auto-entities configs for both of your requirements inside a container card

not sure though if we can use auto-entities to only show the groups, and make those folded/collapsible, you might need to use a n option setting with fold-entity-row for that for each row (filtered group) and set the fold option GitHub - thomasloven/lovelace-fold-entity-row: 🔹 A foldable row for entities card, containing other rows

loocd · August 14, 2024, 9:44am

Thanks for the input!
I just fixed a small mistake in my initial post, not sure if this affects your feedback.

I am trying to exclude all entities that are part of a group. But I think your reply already considered this.

If I give the labels to the group, do these populate down to the child-entities so that these can be excluded as well? That’s not how I would have expected it to work.

Regarding the implementation of the card: I am assuming that this can be handled via the options settings (haven’t tested id yet), but I have created a decluttering card with the template so I am assuming this to work without issues as soon as I can figure out to even set the filter for this

Mariusthvdb · August 14, 2024, 10:07am

no, there labels are per entity, and dont trickle down

correct
also, depending on what you want auto-entities to populate, you might need to use the card_param option, if it doesnt default to the entities:

dost assume that, decluttering can be finicky and behave unexpectedly

I’d first make it work in a direct config, and if you have that, create a decluttering based on that

loocd · August 14, 2024, 10:12am

no, there labels are per entity, and dont trickle down

But that would mean I’d have to give labels to each entity that is part of a group - and if ever a new entity becomes part of a group, I have to remember to put the label on this as well.

Of course, it would work - but doesn’t seem all that seamless considering all the amazing filtering options available for the auto-entities card.

But of course, if there’s no identifier, then obviously these entities can’t be identified; I just hoped there was any way to do this that I didn’t think of…

Mariusthvdb · August 14, 2024, 10:14am

no? you could include/exclude based on those labelled groups