Automation Builder Improvement

Feature Requests
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EDIT: Fixed broken image mock-up link, improved wording for clarity and a typo

While building automations in the UI I had a hard time with it to where I think an improvement to the UI would help all users, especially newer ones. List of improvements include:

  • Live state information for entities targeted in Triggers, Conditions, and Actions
  • Live trigger tracking, per trigger, with a time since last trigger and icons that change briefly (few seconds) to show a trigger matching while in that view
  • Live condition tracking, per condition, showing whether that condition currently meets the state you’re configuring it to match
  • Live action result mock-up, per action, showing the intended “from” and “to” for the state of the entities targeted per action. Using mock-up notification windows (graphical) for notification type of service calls

I created an image mock-up of the idea and how it might look in the automation building window:
Image on imgur.com

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Quite an idea and improvement IMO. I’m one of the guys who sticks to doing every possible automation I can directly in HA, so this would be very beneficial for me! Vote added!

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Image mock-up link fixed!

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To add: this is one of the most important things in a “Home Automation” system and IMO a feature(the automations in general) that is VERY lacking in Home Assistant. It is one of the features that would really allow HA to step up with/above the competition for the average user without having to resort to Node Red.