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:
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